08-06-24 FULL SHOW - Kamala Picks Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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US and training camp is almost done, and we're almost
at the preseason games. Well, we are at the preseason games.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Coover?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Are you the kind of guy who watches all the
preseason games?

Speaker 4 (00:51):
I'll watch the first quarter when the starters play. But
outside of that note, see the.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Last preseason game that I went to. I was in Florida,
and I went the group of people that I never
should have chosen for this endeavor because they were always late,
and not just a few minutes. They were the people
that were always half an hour late to everything. And
so by the time we actually made it to Raymond
James Stadium to watch the Bucks preseason game, there was

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not a soul on that field I had ever heard of,
and I was like, if you're gonna go to a
preseason game, you got to get there on time.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
That's true. Otherwise you're not going to miss the starter's play.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
And as much as we're all going to sit there
and go, well, you know, I want to see the
young and up and coming talent, y'all. Come on, really,
we don't care until they make the team. Let's be real,
unless you're related to one of them. Anyway, that's not
what we're talking about today, because today is an embarrassment
of riches. I have a very very guest heavy show,
but I regret none of them. So let's go to
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.

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Look for the headline that says eight six twenty four
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Plat today on the blood don't miss the next man
he caught an adventure to Japan and South Korea. Kamala
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joins to discuss the ballot initiatives to protect kids. Our
futurist joins us today at one. Comedian Emo Phillips joins
me at two thirty. The men's one hundred meter finish

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I got some good videos. You know, when a Rod's
not here, I lack the thirty second stupid but really
funny or entertaining or you know whatever, videos, but I
try to find stuff that I enjoy, So that's why
I have artists that I like on here and the
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John Stossel, which is of course fantastic because John Stossel
just does fantastic work. But oh my goodness, today I
found myself in a bit of a predicament because there
was so much stuff. And I have four guests today
that I'm always excited about our guests, but a couple
of them are very timely. One of them is my
fan favorite, and the other one is a comedian that

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we had the opportunity to talk to that I first
saw when I was in high school. Now, if you
pay attention to the program, oh that I just turned
fifty five. So what year was that? Do the math quickly,
that would be nineteen eighty seven. So Emo Phillips, I
didn't even know he was still like doing the stand
up comedy, But I went back this morning and watched

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his newer comedy and I must tell you it's as
funny as it was in nineteen eighty seven. So I'm
excited to have him on the show. He was a
part of my life. Do you evercoover?

Speaker 4 (04:21):
How old are you?

Speaker 6 (04:23):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Fifty four?

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Okay, so you're right there with me. Do you remember
the Young Comedian specials where Sam Kinnison came out, I
mean all the Andrew Dice Clay came out of that special.
They were Rodney Dangerfield put together all these young comics
and they were so good, and they were always the
first thing rented at the video store. Kids back in
the day, when you wanted to go watch something, you

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couldn't just pull it up on your phone. No, you
had to have someone drive you down to a store.
There was full of video cassettes. Ask your parents what
those are, and then you would have to hope that
your video cassette that you wanted had not already been
rented by someone else who obviously went straight there after school.
And then you would rent the video cassette and you
would take it home and you would watch it, and

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then at the end, if you wanted to watch it
over again, you had to rewind it before you can
watch it. And that took like, I don't know, felt
like nine hours, even though it was probably like, I
don't know, five minutes or whatever. And then if you
didn't return it to the video store in a timely fashion.
They began digging your credit almost immediately, and that's why
you couldn't buy a house until you were thirty, those

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video store things. So that's what life was like in
the tough olden times. Children. It was not all sunshine
and roses. Be kaid rewind was a thing and an order. Anyway,
did not mean to go off on that tangent, and
I have no idea where I got here from, but
lots of stuff on the blog today because there's so

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much news. So let me go and tell you was
coming on the show, and then we'll jump into the news.
Rich Guggenheim and Gaze against Groomers spearheaded two ballot initiatives
to try to protect parents and their children and protect
their parents' rights to know what their children are doing,
and neither ballot or neither initiative made the ballot. We're

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going to talk to Rich about that what they learned,
and the good news is that they've raised awareness about
this happening across the state, and many parents had no
idea that school districts would have a policy to not
inform parents if the child decided they wanted to be
called by another name or identify as another gender. They
were just going to leave the parents out of a loop.

Speaker 7 (06:30):
You know, I was thinking about this the other day.
If you want to know how your child is doing
in school, and I don't know that every school has this,
but I'm pretty sure they do, and you can text
me on the Common Spirit Health text line and let
me know if your kids have this infinite campus app
or some kind of program where you, as a parent,

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can go in at any time and look and see
if they have missed assignments, what their grades are, how
they're doing on their tests. You can then ask your
kid about it in progress instead of getting the shocking
report card at the end of the semester. So you
have that ability as a parent.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
But if your child decides that they are another gender,
the schools have decided and this is far more widespread
than you would realize, that they are just going to
keep that from the parents. That is not okay at all.
So that's what they were trying to address. Rich is
going to come on at twelve thirty. We're going to
talk about that, and then at one o'clock we've got

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Thomas Frye, our futurist he is going to talk about
robot snitches. He calls them robot whistleblowers, but I call
him robot snitches. We're going to talk about that and
beef infused rice. Wait until you hear this. If you're
a rice lover who doesn't eat a lot of rice
because of the carb content of rice, I think, do

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you find this couber? Most people are potato people or
they are rice people. I mean is that Are you
a rice person or a potato person or I'm both?

Speaker 4 (08:01):
I like rice and potatoes.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Okay, now are you a rice person or a noodles person?

Speaker 4 (08:06):
If I go to Panda Express, I'm getting rice.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Okay, there you go, so your rice. Basically, people fall
into the carb categories, right Potatoes, Like I, I love
a good baked potato. That's God's perfect food. Is like
a perfectly made baked potato. And when I first moved
out here, it took me like three years to figure
out that you just have to cook them for forever
when you're at high altitude. But I'm not a big

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rice person. We didn't really eat rice when I was
a kid. Just wasn't because my parents. My mom cooked
like in the Hungarian fashion, so we did a lot
of dumplings and noodles and stuff we didn't do. Rice
just wasn't a thing, and now I'm in a rice
conflict with my husband. It's terrible, absolutely terrible. Anyway, Thomas
is gonna come on talk about robot snitches. Then we've

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got comedian Amo Phillips at two thirty, and then last minute,
I added my friend John Justice, who is a show
host at twin Cities News Talk in Minnesota, and we're
going to talk to him at two o'clock about Governor
Tim Walls, because the big story of the day is
that Kamala Harris has chosen Governor Tim Walls to be

(09:13):
her vice president. And I think this pick makes as
much sense in the grand scheme of things as the
JD Vance pick. And that's not necessarily a negative because
Trump chose JD Vance knowing that it was going to
feed the base. You know, for the most part, it

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was to feed the base, and Kamala Harris chose Governor
Tim Walls to feed the bass. The better option, in
my opinion, politically and strategically, would have been Governor Josh
Shapiro from Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is an incredibly important swing state,
incredibly important, and it's in play. And the big problem

(10:00):
with Governor Shapiro is that he is Jewish, and there
is a decent enough chunk of the Democratic Party that
is anti Semitic that it you know, they decided the
risk wasn't worth the juice, wasn't worth the squeeze, as
they say, now that's the new saying. By the way,
everyone's saying that, I mean everyone, and I just added

(10:22):
myself right to that, Thank you very much. So as
far as like his usefulness, he's being touted by the
left media as he's going to connect with common man.
He did really well with rural voters and he did,
you know, he's a great guy. Well, he lost rural
voters in the last gubernatorial election. He had rural voters

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when he was in Congress and was representing a large
swath of rural area that was a big part of
his district. But once he ran for governor and started,
you know, being the progressive that he is, the lost
rural voters. He has allowed Minneapolis to slide into a

(11:06):
level of crime unseen in a very very very long time,
if ever, and he you know, he has a lot
of knocks on him. So I think this actually evens
out the vice presidential picks. Really, I got a lot
of you weighing in, Mandy. We are in Jeffco's schools.
They started a new program called Hazel Health. Kids can

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get mental health services without parent knowledge or consent. Default
is to opt in, but you cannot opt out. Jeffco
Kids first brought this to light, Mandy, what is wrong
with me? I love rice, I love potatoes, I love noodles. Quinoa. Meh, well,
I'm gonna guess you probably have little inner tube if
all you eat are those carves. No, I'm just kidding.

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Some lucky bastards can eat carbs like that and not
blow up to the size of a house. I am
not one of you lucky bastards. BVSD has infinite camp
be kind rewind exactly, Mandy. I graduated in eighty eight.
I remember all those comedians. Yeah, yeah, So I want

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to talk for a second really quickly about the Tim
Walls pick, and then we're gonna wait because I want
to get I listened to John's show this morning in Minneapolis,
so as I was getting doing my show prep, I
was listening to his show, and they had a bunch
of people calling in kind of like I would do
if we had Jared Polis get picked. And let's just
say now, granted their station does lean to the right,

(12:37):
the pick of Tim Walls was overwhelmingly panned by the
people who live in Minnesota, and so it was fascinating
to listen to him. So we'll talk a little bit
about about it now. But I'd love to know from you, guys,
do you even have an opinion? I mean, before today,
before this was announced, have you even did you even

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know anything about Tim Wallas? Maybe you knew he was
the governor of Minnesota, but do you know anything about
the way he's governed. Do you know anything about what
he's done or what his policies are? I mean, do
you know anything about that? Until today? Five six six
nine zero is the text line, and I'd love for
you to weigh in. Nandy, my wife puts potatoes in
a plastic bag in the microwave for a few minutes.

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I don't know how long. Now I know, I guarantee
your wife is a lovely woman. But if she ever
cooked me potatoes like that, we would fight, because that
is not how you treat a potato. You take a
delicious russet potato, could be a Kenny back, could be
something else, I don't know, and then you wash it

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really well, dry it off, and then you rub it
with an oil that can handle high temperatures. I use
avocado oil, and you sprinkle it all over with coarse
kosher salt, and then you stick it in the oven
on the rack with a piece of oil underneath to
catch anything that falls down. And then you cook it
at like four hundred for an hour at my house
and it is perfect. Don't talk to me about putting

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potatoes in the microwave. We can't be friends. We already
have robot snitches at work. It sucks. Who even thinks
about carbs and food? I drink ten beers a night. Again,
some of us are not the lucky bastards like you
are a texter that can do that. No, no, umm,
texter says, I know he created Kyle Rittenhouse. This texter

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said nothing, Never heard of him. Mandy. Are you seriously
comparing an American hating communist to jd Vance?

Speaker 8 (14:33):
No?

Speaker 3 (14:33):
No, no, no, no, wait, thank you for asking me
to clarify that that was not my intention. There is
the same or more to attack on Tim Walls than
there is to attack on JD. Vance. So in the
grand scheme of things of how helpful these two VP
candidates are, they are the same level of helpful. From

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the opposite direction. Jd Vance is going to secure the
base and home hopefully be able to communicate with people
in the rust belt in the Midwest who maybe are
not feeling great things about the Bidenhiris economy. Tim Walls
is going to be going after those same people with
stories of how the government is going to bail them out.

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So it just seems who's going to be more persuasive.
But I think in the grand scheme of political waiting,
they are in I mean w ei g h ting,
not wa ti ng. In the political weight that they
bring to the ticket, they are equal. Does that make sense?
I think Tim Walls's total communist. I mean, this just

(15:38):
pulled the ticket so undeniably to the left that when
they start playing the sound bites that are already making
their way around the internet, the one where Kamala says
we must stay woke. We got to get woke and
stay woke. It's not going to play well in Middle America.
It might play well in the urban centers, but it's
not going to play well in the Midwest. Kenny Beck.

(16:02):
That's how my husband from Ohio says it. And they
used to grow them on his potato farms. This person says,
ken a beec No, Kenny Beck, that's how the people
in Ohio say it. Mandy Walls was governor during the
twenty twenty riots. Yes, the riots that he called exciting. Yeah,
he called as they were burning down his city doing

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two billion dollars worth of damage. He had a press
conference where he said what was happening was hopeful and exciting.
I'm telling you, there's a million things to attack this
guy on a million and there's gonna be a lot
of questions, I hope asked by the very faithful Jewish
donors about why Josh Shapiro wasn't picked. Nothing would have

(16:47):
shut down the anti Semitic wing faster than announcing that
your VP candidate was Jewish. But she didn't want to
do that. She wanted to feed the base. She wanted
to ensure that they were all going to be here
and that they were going to show up, and now
they will because this guy is even further to the
left than Kamala Mandy Kamala could have picked Donald Duck

(17:08):
and I would still vote for them anyone but Trump.
And I'd been a registered Republican all my life until now.
And I'm sixty eight years old. Okay, Dexter, let me
ask you this question. You're sixty eight years old. Let's
just say you're going to live to be ninety. I'm
going to be optimistic. I don't know you. I hope
you're in great health, and I hope you live longer
than that. But there's a good chance that if the

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Kamala Walls ticket takes over, they will not only blow
up the deficit even more, speeding our demise as a
nation and our ability to pay your Social Security bills.
But as long as it's all about you not liking Trump,
and trust me, I say this as a person who
was firm after January sixth, I would never vote for
Trump again. But here we are. I didn't vote for

(17:50):
him in the primary, but here we are. I believe
that a Harris administration would be even more catastrophic economically,
in terms of our security around the world, in terms
of our basic freedoms in the United States. I think
she's a disaster, and an unlikable disaster at that. But
if you want to vote because you hate Trump, I

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understand it because I'm not a fan, But I have
to vote for what I think is going to be
the better of two of the crappiest choices we've ever had,
and policy wise, that is Donald Trump joining me. Now
you've heard him here many times, Rich Guggenheim, he was
a chapter leader for Gays Against Groomers. He has taken
on a new role with that organization. First of all,

(18:32):
welcome back, my friend.

Speaker 9 (18:34):
Thanks many glad to be with you.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
So you guys did not quite get the signatures you
needed to get the bal initiatives on the ballot. But
remind my listeners which ballot initiatives you were working on.

Speaker 9 (18:48):
We're working on one which is printal notifications for gender
incongruence of children at school, and then the other one
was ballad Initiative one sixty, which would have made it
so that only girls can compete in girl sports.

Speaker 10 (19:03):
How close did you guys come, Rich, Well, considering that
we only had eighty days instead of the full six months,
I'll just say we're getting close to about ten thousand
signature of the.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Day Oh wow, wow, that's really I have to tell you,
and I've had conversations with John Caldera about this because
the Independent Institute has successfully launched many, many ballot initiatives
and it is so hard to get it on the
ballot with an all volunteer organization. And that's what you
guys were. What did you what did you taken away

(19:37):
from this? Because what is your new role?

Speaker 9 (19:40):
I am going to be the director of legislation.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
So yeah, well, and.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
I imagine you learned quite a bit through this process.

Speaker 9 (19:50):
You could say that, yes I have, and you know what,
it's an honor. I will tell you a lot of
people probably assume that we just fit this issue and
predominantly blue states, but that's not the case. Protecting children
is an issue that we have to be fighting, unfortunately
in all fifty states and also at the federal level,

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and we're up against a well funded, well established machine
at this point in.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Time, and that you are. I just got a question
via my text messages from ros Kaminski for you Rich.
He said, the question I'd like to hear the answer
to is whether the fact that they didn't get enough
signatures is based on not having enough money for gatherers
or some other logistical or organizational problem, or that the
Colorado public simply does not support this. So which do

(20:36):
you think that is?

Speaker 9 (20:38):
Well, I can tell you the Colorado support. The public
definitely supported it. I think that it was just it
was an all volunteer organization. We had no paid petition
circulators at all, and so funding is a big thing.
And as you know, in the United States, we have
the best government money can buy. And even at the
grassroots level, it takes three things. It takes money, it

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takes messaging, and it takes the masses. And if you
think about in eighty days, we were able to basically
we were building the plane as we fluid. So I
like to tell people that what happened the other day
was not the not the final show, yep, it was
the rehearsal. And in these eighty days, we had to

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build the set, we had to audition the cast and
the crew, and we had to film while we were
doing all of that.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
And so we.

Speaker 9 (21:32):
Accomplished a great deal in that short.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
Period of time.

Speaker 9 (21:35):
We got the volunteers, we got the petitions in their hands.
They were the ones that are out there hitting the
ground every single day. We were building those coalitions and
it was truly broad. We had obviously, gays against streamers
was part of it. We had members, We had female
athletes who are supporting this. We had progressives, Libertarians, Democrats,

(21:58):
Republicans and conservative We had people regardless of the religion
or not religious, and many I'll tell you the women
that were fighting for the girls sports initiatives. Yeah, me
were some strong like liberal Democrats, like they were the you.

Speaker 6 (22:19):
Know what it is rich.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
I think that the the just the fundamental unfairness of
allowing you know, natal males to compete against females. It
cuts across all barriers. And it doesn't mean that there
are not people. There were probably more people on the
left that support this than people on the right, But
there are definitely people on the left that are like
this is crazy. They recognize that the women fought for

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the right to have their own sports and to have
it fully funded for a very long time, and this
is literally just crapping all over that. So what is
the next step on these ballot initiatives.

Speaker 9 (22:54):
We are going to be back. I'll just tell you
that we're going to be back, and we're going to
have more initiatives and I hope that Mark Griskin and
all of the people that he was representing with organizations
like One Colorado and the Colorado PTA really didn't like
what we were doing, and neither did the Colorado Educators Association.
So I'll tell you we're gonna be that. We're gonna

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have more and we're gonna win this because we're gonna
have the full one hundred and eighty eight and we
have created awareness among the public about what's going on.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Well, not only that you now know, you now know
your ballot language is Okay, we.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
Do so you don't have to volunteers in place exactly.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
So okay, Rich, when you go to kick it off
next year or whenever?

Speaker 5 (23:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Are you when?

Speaker 11 (23:39):
Is?

Speaker 3 (23:39):
It? Obviously will be next year because we don't have
elections next year, So in twenty twenty two, is that
when the next go excuse me, twenty twenty six, is
that the next go round?

Speaker 5 (23:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (23:50):
Will be Yeah, And we're gonna we're gonna start early too,
because we know it takes a lot of time, and well.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
You know what, let's be real, Rich, it takes money.
It's gonna I think that that you know, if this
and I'm not telling you what to do, because I
know that there is a you and just so many
other people behind you that are talking about this stuff
every day. But I think that the next year should
be spent doing nothing but raising money. And then the
following year you get this, you start marketing, and you

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start talking and raising awareness. So by the time the
petitions hit the ground, the pump is so primed that
it will be no problem at all to get their signatures.

Speaker 9 (24:27):
And that's one of the things that I am super
proud of with what we accomplished. Oh my gosh, that's
a short time frame. We're going to be able to
go back to the donors and back to the funders
and say look, without money and as the grassroots all
to your organization in this period of time we accomplished
all of this.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
I'm super proud of what you guys did, Regien, and
more importantly, I'm super happy that you and the team
behind these ballot initiatives were the ones willing to stick
your head up and say this is wrong and to
take the grief, because I know you have gotten an
excessive amount of grief from the gay community, which I

(25:05):
think is wrong. Did I remember seeing on your Twitter
that you are now a registered Republican.

Speaker 9 (25:11):
I have changed my party affiliation.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
I feel like I just.

Speaker 9 (25:15):
Ran out of runway with the Democrats. I have a
strong problem with the fact that it is right now,
the woke homophobia that's coming from it, and I'm I'm
sure you're no stranger to it. I mean people like
Kyle Clarke and Alan Franklin and these I call them
the normy gay. But the fact that it's the mainstream

(25:35):
media and the LGBTQ establishment that are fully engaged in
woe homophobia and misogyny.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
They need to be called out on it. And I
cannot like in the last twenty four hours, I have
been called to.

Speaker 9 (25:49):
Pick me, I have been called to the self loathing gay.
It is just the blatant homophobia coming from the left
and coming from the media. As a richtly horrendous.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
As a former, as a newly minted Republican. Let me
get you hip to some of the things that we
Republicans have known for a long time. Whatever you are
or whatever identity group you fit into, as soon as
you move remotely to the right, you become the devil.
And then it's okay to make fun of you for
being gay. See that's what they don't tell you when
you're on the left. As soon as you say, hey,

(26:22):
those Republicans might not all suck, then it's like, oh
my gosh, look at that that weirdo. Look at that
queer guy that's self loathing gay. I mean, of course
that's how it works.

Speaker 9 (26:32):
Well, it's great because I don't have any problem calling
out the hypocrisy and screen capturing what they say and
pronta out there on social media. I mean, well, let's
just be honest. They're just showing their true colors right now,
and they are showing the entire world what they're made of.

Speaker 11 (26:48):
And I have a problem with it.

Speaker 9 (26:49):
And that's why I have to switch parties because at
the end of the day, I'm concerned about the fact
that if the Democrats can tell women you're no longer
allowed to consent, you can no longer say no to
a man in the bathroom, and you can no longer
say no to a man in the locker room, they're
not going to stop until they tell a woman you
can no longer say no to a man in the bedroom.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
A fair point.

Speaker 9 (27:11):
And if they can tell gay people that you have
to accept a non biological person in your space, and
you have to give up the rights because at the
end of the day, this is about the abolition of sex.
And if you can erase legal definition of sex, you erase.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Sex base rights.

Speaker 9 (27:30):
And what do you think gay people spent the last
fifty years fighting for that's base rights. It's the same
thing with women. And this whole gender ideology is nothing
more than a modern day form of conversion therapy where
they are mutilating and sterilizing gay children.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Rich S Guggenheim is my guest. Okay, we're going to
remain in contact and you give me updates whenever you
need to, because this is too important to let it go.

Speaker 9 (27:58):
Well do thank you, Mandy, all right, thanks rich.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Tell your dad, I said, Hi, okay bye. His dad
always emails me after Riches on the show to let
me know how you listen. It's just the cutest thing ever.
You could tell us. Dad's super proud of him.

Speaker 11 (28:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
So both initiatives, the initiative that would have required parents
to be notified if their child identified as another gender
at school or any kind of gender confusion or dysphoria,
and the other one would have provided for only biological
girls in girls' sports, co ed sports boys would still
be allowed, and then boys and you know, biological boys

(28:35):
would be in a different category. And they just could
not get it over the finish line. And I should
have John Caldera on the show. I'll you know what.
I'm kind of mad at John. I'll tell you why
after this we are given away this year we If
you guessed that we are giving away Broncos tickets, you
would be correct. We're actually giving away some season tickets
to the Broncos, but we're also giving away weekly tickets.

(28:58):
How do you enter? Well, right now, if you know
the answer to this trivia question, you can be caller
number ten with the correct answer to call three zero three,
seven to one, three eighty five eighty five. That's seven one,
three eighty five eighty five with the answer to this question,
how many seasons does did Hall of Famer linebacker Randy

(29:21):
Gradishar play with the Broncos? How many seasons did Randy
Gradishar play with the Broncos? Caller number ten, go do it, Cooper?
That get happen? Now. I just said I was mad
at John Calderaz. I was also giving him a compliment
for all of the ballot initiatives that the Independence Institute
has not just successfully gotten on the ballot but also

(29:41):
gotten over the finish line. But John had a column
the other day about course, and it's a great column.
It's not just about the beer. It's about the foundation
and the work they do, and that they've been around
for I think fifty years forty years now. And John
was kind of giving a compliment that in the column
he felt the need to take a shot at smoking
in the Bandit and actually said that it quote didn't

(30:06):
hold up. What what? So I sought him a text
message that said wtf, John, Only I actually did not
say WTF. How can you be like running down Smoking
the Bandit like that. He's promised to correct it in
a future column. We'll see when that happens. You know,

(30:28):
I can never tell with him, but he has been
very successful at getting balid initiatives onto the ballot. Many
of your texting that's so sad it didn't get on
the ballot. As the mother of an ice hockey obsessed daughter,
it's scary times thinking a biological boy could be allowed
to play on her. All Girls sixteen and up Team Mandy.
Shame those ballad initiatives didn't get on the ballot. Can't

(30:49):
trust those dog rumors. Ha ha, Let's see what she
did there, being very very funny. Ooh, this person says,
I carried petitions for these cannot believe they make it.
Ninety eight percent of people I talked to said, of course,
it's it's all a matter. It's the effort to get
stuff on the ballot. This is why people pay signature

(31:12):
gatherers because it's very hard to get enough warm bodies
in enough locations on a volunteer basis consistently for the
number of weeks that it has to happen. It's just
a it would take a massive volunteer organization. But I
think that rich and his team are gonna do a
really good job laying that groundwork, and we're gonna get

(31:33):
this over the finish line. And this is not about
harming trans kids. This isn't about any of this. It's
about just putting lie to the notion that somehow schools
are a better parent than the parents are, and that
all children need to be protected from all parents. And

(31:56):
regardless of what the school does or doesn't do, some
parents are going to be terrible. Some parents are going
to be abusive, and if the school finds out that
any abuse is taking place, they are legally bound to
turn that parent in. We have those protections in place,
but it is not the school's role to counsel a
child to make a life changing decision that cannot be undone,

(32:20):
especially when the evidence now shows there is not good
scientific evidence to back this up. And that's all Rich
is trying to do, and to ensure that girls who
have gone through puberty are competing against girls and not
boys who have gone through puberty and then decided they
are girls. It's just wrong, It's fundamentally wrong. We haven't

(32:42):
really talked about the outcry about the Olympic boxers and
the clarification that they were born with a condition. They
were essentially born with female parts, but they have xy
chromosomes as well and undescended testicles that create testosterone. Well,
we gotta have a conversation about these people. We've got
to have a conversation about what women's sports are all about,

(33:05):
because if we have women that are on this spectrum,
this intersect spectrum, we have to make decisions so nobody
has to ever go through what these two boxers have
gone through and I feel bad for, you know, being
outraged about it. Before I had more information the amount
of abuse that has been heaped on them when they're

(33:25):
falling in a very nebulous category. So it's it's just
it's this. I don't ever remember having to worry about
this insanity and except that time the East Germans showed
up and the vitamins they gave the East German women
basically turned them into dudes. I mean, I hope we
don't go back to that. We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
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No the architect of the future, the future is now,
it's futurist Thomas Fry on The Mandy Connells Show.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
How could you possibly know? What?

Speaker 2 (34:12):
We are?

Speaker 5 (34:12):
Here?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
With Thomas Fry our futurists. You can always find him
at futurist speaker dot com and I always link to
it on the blog so you can see more. Thomas,
how you doing today?

Speaker 8 (34:24):
I'm doing just great.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
I like to hear that. And you have on your
futurist blog that you can also find at the same website.
You always have the most interesting columns and I want
to talk about one is going to be out what
next week? Is that what you told me when you
send it to me, right right? So I find this
concept kind of interesting because you talk about in the future,

(34:46):
we won't have to worry about people sticking their necks
out to be a whistleblower in a situation like we've seen,
and you use Edward Snowden as an example, and you
use the the Boeing whistleblowers as an example, because it
takes a lot of courage to be a whistleblower, because
you are now going to put yourself out of odds
with whatever organization you're blowing the whistle. One. So you

(35:09):
suggest that we're going to have robot whistleblowers, and all
I saw immediately was great robot snitches. What's the difference
between robot whistleblowers and robot snitches?

Speaker 8 (35:22):
Yeah, that's a great question. Yeah. Originally I was thinking
when I wrote this that I was thinking that we
would have a robot that we would tell the secrets to,
and then the robot then would go testify somewhere. You

(35:42):
would never know who, they would never know who it
was in the background, So then you can protect the
identity of the person that was actually the whistle blower.
But as I got into it, then that didn't make
sense in a lot of levels. But it seems like
there should be some way of digitally protecting the identity

(36:07):
of the person that's actually blowing the whistle, but we
don't really have a good system for doing that right now.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Now, what made you think of this in the first place.
Was it the you know, was it just the overall
concept of trying to figure out a way for something
to get rated out without having the negative backlash from
being a person who's working in that company. Now, I
think it's interesting that you almost went industrial spy there

(36:35):
with the robots in a way. You give this roseby
you're whispering all the secrets of the company, and then
he comes out and is like, I know everything. I mean,
what does that robot even look like?

Speaker 8 (36:47):
Yeah? Well, see, part of the problem was is the
things that blowing has gotten so bad that there should
have been somebody blowing the whistle on this a long
time ago, and there probably was, but it just didn't
come to light. I mean, this is this is an
American company. We all liked the idea of going being

(37:10):
something that we respect and look up to. But there's
a lot of crap going on in the background that
just wasn't right, and so they were sweeping a lot
of the problems under the rug. And so I thought,
you know, there should be a way of actually getting
this to come to light sooner than later. And that's

(37:30):
why I started going down this path. But is this
the correct way, I'm I don't know. I was hoping
that maybe this would trigger some thoughts in some of
the listeners here, that maybe they would come up with
a better way of doing this.

Speaker 6 (37:44):
Well, so.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
I'm looking at the text line five sixty six nine, oh,
and I want to I was thinking about this earlier
after I read the column, and I'm thinking to myself,
how would I set this up? And it would almost
be like maybe you'd have an on booth been robot
right where you'd have this robot that was kind of
a clearing house. But then I thought to myself, because
this is how paranoid I am, Thomas. If I am
going to report on someone else, how am I actually

(38:10):
physically going to report on someone else? Anything digital has
a trail, so I would have to actually physically go
see this robot. So that's the part that I'm stuck
on because if they know you saw the robot, they
know that you were going to go rat somebody out.

Speaker 8 (38:27):
Yeah. Yeah, there's a few holes and all the ways
that go about doing this. Yeah. So you think about
Edward Snowden's situation. He got extremely uncomfortable with what they
were doing and all the privacy rights that they were violating,

(38:50):
and so he had to tell somebody, and he put
himself at extreme danger and has still not been able
to come back home. So would there have been another
way for him to expose this problem without putting his
life on the line.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
I mean, that would have been great. But there's also
the question about whether Edward Snowden is a whistleblower or
a treason you know, a trader. So that's where it
gets for me a little more complicated, because I do
think there are times when someone could ostensibly leak the
kind of secrets that Edward Snowden did that you know,
there's more to the story, Right, we got a huge

(39:32):
file dump for him. We'll not have a conversation about
the rightness or wrongness of this. We'll keep it on
the task at hand, because I don't just want to
talk about robot whistleblowers, which, by the way, not one
single person has a better way to do this on
the text line, I just want you to know that
I want to talk about beef infused rice for a
moment because this is fascinating. So you have an article

(39:52):
that there's already been created a rice that has what beef,
bovine jeans put in it, so it has meat inside
the right. Explain to me what this is, Thomas.

Speaker 8 (40:10):
Yeah, so this is like lab grown meat, only it's
lab grown rice with meat inside of it. So it's
the same process of actually growing growing an animal. But
then you combine two things together. So they grow this

(40:33):
inside of a vat. They put all the right ingredients
into it, and overtime then it actually grows and turns
into this combination rice with beef in it. Now this
is the first product, and they're looking at doing other
combination products as well. I mean, if you could think

(40:53):
of growing a potato with pork in it, or growing
broccoli with chain and things like that.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Boy, that's going to drive the vegans crazy.

Speaker 8 (41:05):
Different combinations.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
That's going to drive the vegans crazy.

Speaker 8 (41:08):
Thomas, Yeah, it'll probably drive a lot of people crazy
because people are going to have all this questions, well,
is this real? And is this safe? And is this
something I want to expose my kids to? And is
this better than naturally growing something?

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Well, I wanted to ask you, why are we doing this?
I would not have thought, hey, let's take rice and
put beef into it would be a starting position for
any kind of food experimentation. But why are they doing this?

Speaker 8 (41:40):
Well, the I'm grown beef has started with kind of
some interesting reasoning behind it, and that there's a lot
of parts of the world that are very crowded and
they don't have room for raising cattle or racing lots
of chickens and things, so that they thought that the
slab grown beat beef from chicken and pork and fish

(42:05):
that would be a good way of solving that problem.
It also has some other benefits to it too. The
people that are don't want to cause cruelty to animals,
that don't want to harm harm chickens or harm pigs.
There they find this appealing because this has grown in

(42:28):
the laboratory and you're not actually hurting the animal for
those For those people, then this makes sense. Now we
have a lot of states, right now that are putting
up regulations against growing beef in a laboratory because that
they're worried about it eventually hurting the ranching industry in

(42:50):
the United States. I think that's a little premature. I
think something like this is going to take decades to
catch on best, and it may only actually capture a
small percentage of the population anyway.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
So this just feels like when I like the having
new options, well, I you know, there's an ick factor here,
and for me, it's one of those things where I
think that, you know, I believe that we in the
United States and our zeal to produce more food, which
we are very good at in farming and agriculture, but
I think in our zeal to do that we have

(43:28):
changed the nature of American produce in such a way
that it is noticeable when you go to Europe and
you have the food over there that is far more
unadulterated than it is here. Now, they don't grow as
much food as we are as we have here, and
they still have big factory farms. But there's something with
our food supply, in our in our efforts to make
it bigger, better, faster, stronger, that I think we've sort

(43:50):
of hurt the quality of some of our produce. And
when I went to I think about lab created meat nutritionally,
at at its most cellular level, I don't trust that
it's exactly the same. I think that's what it comes
down for me. So I don't know if I'm going
to be on that lab grown meat bandwagon anytime soon.

(44:10):
It just sounds gross to me, to be honest.

Speaker 8 (44:15):
Well, here's here's another option. It doesn't have to be
the edible part of the animal. You could also do
lab grown leather, so you could actually grow grow the leather,
and and so then you could grow the leather and
actually create shoes and belts and purses and things like that.

(44:36):
Then think of think of this idea of actually going
to Hollywood and getting the genes, getting the material from
actual celebrities, and then have designer leather that's that's actually
coming from these celebrities. You are no, no, no, you

(45:00):
would you buy it if it was an actual George
Plenty person.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
No, that is such a that that is just that
just reminds me of the lamp shades made by the
Nazis with human skin. There's no way I am participating
in that. But you know what, I've bet a lot
of people would, and I've bet a lot of these
celebrities would be like, Hey, you know what, you can
make forty million dollars by selling a purse made out
of your skin. Black Thomas, whach If this is the future,

(45:27):
I don't want to go. I just want to stop
right now. I just yuck. I cannot do that. That
is that's horrible. Blah, just blah. Oh God, why did
I ask me? Yeah, why did you even bring that up?
That's horrible. Oh can you imagine being like, oh, what designer?
You know what designer is your purse? Oh it's George Clooney.
It's actually George Clooney right here on my arm. That's

(45:50):
just weird and kind of upsetting to me that we
would be making things out of other people's skin. Somebody
on the text line lab grown hot garbage is what
this is. But ultimately, you know, Thomas, we've showed an
incredible amount of adaptability when it comes to our food chains,
and I do think at some point in the future

(46:10):
there's going to be enough people who want to eat
meat without eating actual animals that I think this is
going to have legs I mean I would invest in
it now early, you know, and then kind of roll
the dice with some money behind that.

Speaker 5 (46:23):
I think.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
I think it's an idea that is more people become
aware of what farming looks like. And I am not
a person who is upset with the way farming is done,
but ultimately you're growing animals for food, so there's a
certain part of barbarism in the process. People are going
to go for this, not me, but somebody.

Speaker 8 (46:40):
Else, right right. I think there's a market for it,
and it's a matter of getting it down to the
right price point where it's competitive, and then the right
quality control and everything. So it's self produced in volume
with enough safety measures in place so that it's nutritionally sound.

(47:05):
So I think we're only a few years away. I mean,
it is being sold in Singapore right now, lab grown meat,
and so that's a possibility right at the moment.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
You know what, more power to Singapore. They'll beat you
for having to stick a gun, but you can get
that lab grown meat over there all the time. Let
me ask you one more thing. Oh to the text
thro you just said Mandy Connell's shoes, No, no hard pass.
I do not want you people walking around in my
skin shoes. That is the weirdest thing ever. Anyway, I
would ask one question because you also have another excellent

(47:42):
column about AI and the future of human DNA, and
I want to talk about this because last weekend my
son was here and he said, you know what the
anti aging research they're doing now on how telemeres actually
control the process of aging, and they're starting to understand
what the disease of aging actually is. And he said,
you know, there's going to be technologies that reasonably you

(48:03):
could live to be one hundred and thirty one hundred
and fifty very very soon. And I said, that sounds horrible.
I don't want to live to be one hundred and fifty.
I'm already kind of bored now and I'm only fifty five,
so I can only imagine how bored i'd be by
one fifty. But then you have this column on AI
driven genetic modifications, and when you're talking about AI driven

(48:24):
genetic modifications to our DNA, how does that process work
in your mind? What would that look like in theory?

Speaker 8 (48:35):
Yeah, that's a great question. I start off with the
story about Elon Musk sends some teams of people to
Mars and realizes that the space is such a harsh
condition that we need more durable humans to actually go
to Mars, and so he comes back to Earth to

(48:58):
actually re engineer human DNA so we can have a
more durable grade of person that goes to Mars. That
in my mind actually worked as a possible, realistic possibility.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
So are we talking about going into an adult wook?
Are we talking about going into an adult human and
tweaking their DNA at that level? That's what I'm confused about.
I'm confused about when this genetic alteration takes place.

Speaker 8 (49:31):
I think it could happen at any age, and so
that you could actually it actually takes over the entire body.
Then as you make the alteration and you become theoretically
a more durable human at that point. If that's if

(49:52):
that's the the attributes you're going for. If you want
somebody that can live a long time, that's a different
way of altering the genes. If you want somebody that
can live on less oxygen or less water, I mean,
that's another approach that. Yeah. I mean, I'm thinking that

(50:15):
you'll have the Olympics in the future. You have to
do all kinds of other testing to make sure these
people haven't been genetically mutated to the point where they
are ten times stronger than anybody else.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
See now that that is kind of appealing. Like if
I could have a little DNA tweak that would give
me ABS, that would be nice. I would like that
a lot, if I could just get some ABS. I mean,
could Are we going to get to a point in
the future where you're going to be able to go
into like right now, like you go in to get botox.
Are we going to get to the point in the
future where you're going to be able to go into
some kind of boutique and say, you know, I'd like

(50:50):
to have better upper body strength, or I'd like to
be able to sleep better, or I'd like to have
some of these other genetic qualities that I don't have,
and you'll be able to basically pick and shoes and
make a designer human of yourself.

Speaker 8 (51:08):
Possibly that you know, for for business people, rather than
carrying some disease that's really difficult to get their mind
wrapped around and actually make any money in the process
of doing it. There's there's a constant demand for us
having better bodies. There's a constant demand for us, demand

(51:31):
for us to lose weight, for us to be taller,
more hair, better looking, and so being able to design
those things that that I think is an interesting way
of thinking about the future. I don't I don't know

(51:53):
how how quickly this comes about that I would guess
within the next ten years.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
What, Like, why do I think this is like fifty
years away and you are saying, oh, in the next
ten years is going to be happening.

Speaker 8 (52:09):
Yeah, thanks for moving really fast.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Well, I would guess, so, I would guess. So Thomas
Fry is my guy who gives me things to think
about when I can't sleep at night, and I'm not
even kidding, Like I'll lie there and think about, like
what would if I could go into the genetics supermarket
and pick out some new things for me? What would
I get? You know what I mean? Like, what accoutremonts
would I add to the Mandy Connell collection that does

(52:33):
not include skin shoes?

Speaker 8 (52:37):
Yeah, you don't. You don't have to have a jewelry
box to storm in because it's all in your body.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
Oh that's creepy and weird. Oh look, honey, I got
you blue eyes for Christmas. Okay. On that note, we'll
let you go, Thomas. You can find Thomas to come
speak to your organization about your industry or anything else
at futuristspeaker dot com. I linked to it on the
website along with links to the stories that we talked
about here today. Good to see you, my friend. I'll
see you in a month.

Speaker 8 (53:03):
Thank you. All right.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
That is Thomas Fry, our futurist. It's a busy day today.
We have several guests coming up at two o'clock. It's
already one thirty on most. Wow, this show has been
going by fast. We're gonna talk to my friend John Justice.
He is a talk show host in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and
I was listening to his show this morning after the
announcement of Tim Walls as Kamala Harris's VP, and let's

(53:28):
just say, his van base is not impressed, not at all.
So we're gonna get the dirt in the scoop coming
up at two. But when we get back, I have
so much stuff on the blog. Oh, we got to
talk Olympics for just a minute. I'm still obsessed. I'm
watching it like I'm trying to watch every single moment
of the Olympics, and I'm sad because the que no

(53:52):
interest at all, none whatsoever. We tried to get her
to come down and watch with us because Chuck and
I because remember when we kids when the Olympics were on,
everybody watched it. Now, granted, when I was a kid,
we only had three channels backing my day kids, we
only had ABCCBS and PBS where I lived. That's all

(54:13):
three channels. And we had to get up and walk
across the room and turn the knob to get to those.
It was crazy. I'm obsessively watching it. I just want
to know if anybody else is having this problem with
their teens. Are your teens watching the Olympics, And if
they are, what can I do? Like, how do I
get her sucked in? Because some of my fondest memories

(54:36):
of sports as a child happened while watching the Olympics,
and you know, playing the floor is not labed. At
the same time, We'll be right back, and I asked
the question before the break if you have teenagers, are
they into the Olympics, because I can't stop watching, and
several of you have responded, my girls do gymnastics, so
they're obsessed with watching I've parlayed that into other sports.

(54:58):
Isn't she into volleyball? Maybe you can ever watch some
of that too. The metal ceremonies always evoke the emotions also,
so yeah, no, doesn't really have any interest in watching that.
Eight and twelve Love the Olympics says this text. Or
don't give them any of the choices. And this is
what I told my husband. Back when I was a kid,
there was nothing else to do but watch the Olympics.

(55:19):
Now they have the entire world in their hands in
a phone. So yeah, Mandy, I'm not watching the Olympics.
Only the Turkish shooter memes, the Turkish shooter stories, be careful,
you guys. The Turkeyish shooter is fifty one years old.
I've seen so many false memes going around about him.
But the fact the dude shows up in a T shirt,

(55:40):
puts his hand in his pocket and just gets up there,
shoots and gets the silver that's the most gen x
thing ever. But he has been in every Olympic since
two thousand and eight, and he is an experienced shooter.
So there's a meme going around saying, oh, he just
took up shooting after a fight with his ex wife.
That is not accurate. He did not get on the
metals and say Sandra, can I have my dog back?

(56:02):
That did not happen. But he's still just like ultimate.
That and the guy on the men's gymnastics team, the
guy the nerd with the glasses. Oh my god, he's
the cutest thing. Who did palmelhorse. He's the star of
the Olympics. Snoop dogg undeniably one of the stars of
the Olympics. He has been so entertaining to watch. What's

(56:25):
funny is he's way more entertaining to watch than Colin
Jost who's in French Polynesia covering surfing. He's the comedian.
Snoop is just like he's all of us, just cheering
for these Olympics, like a maniac Mandy. So many kids
have it in their heads that anything patriotic is bad.
They just do not do it and can't bring themselves

(56:45):
to beg Usa. That's not her. She's a super patriotic kid.
And if she ever got not patriotic, I swear it
would not go well. Easy Choice Olympic or reruns in
the summer, even if it's the Golden Girls, something I
have not seen versus something I have possibly seen many
many times. Now I'm with you. What else are you

(57:08):
watching right now? This person said, no more live channels,
so no commercials to serve as a reminder, Gender and
drug controversies make it difficult to get behind athletes, even
though the US has not been indicated. Kneeling an anti
American crap from prior years. Hang over pink hair soccer person,
I'm looking at you.

Speaker 5 (57:27):
Just for me too.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
Many events need to keep core events. If I can
do the sport, I am interested. So no, I totally
disagree with you on that. I love seeing sports that
we never think about ever, except for the Olympics. I
watched Olympic badminton the other day for an hour and
a half. Ping pong, although they call it table tennis,

(57:52):
we all know it's ping pong. I mean all of
these sports, I love all of them. I love the
human steeple chase where the athletes are running and they're
jumping over fences into big pools of water. I love
the horse people chase or there's horses jumping over all
kinds of stuff like looks like little houses and whatnot.
The question, I mean, you get a little bit of everything.

(58:13):
That's what makes the Olympics so good. And I understand that.
Apparently people are given Simone Biles and Jordan Oh my gosh,
what's's Jordan Giles? Wait, Simone Bile is Jordan Giles? Is
that right? Now that I said it, it doesn't seem right,
but I'm pretty sure it is.

Speaker 8 (58:34):
They were.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
They came in second and third in the floor exercise
to a Brazilian gymnast who has just had an just
an outstanding games. She's she is the Simone Bios of Brazil,
and she came in and got gold. And when they
got up on the podium, both Simone and Jordan turned
around into the kind of we're not worthy bowing and

(58:55):
people are making a big deal out of it, but
you know what, just go pound sand, you do it
your way. I love the Olympic spirit, the feeling of
camaraderie and appreciation for an incredible performance on the floor exercise.
I love all of that stuff. That's what makes the
Olympics great. I'm finding they're repeating a lot of the events.

(59:16):
As Texter said, they show the same stuff in the
evening that they showed in the afternoon, because it's live
in the afternoon and it's a repeat in the evening
cause they're eight hours ahead of us, so they can't
show it. I mean, they do show it live for MANIAX.
Like me want I have it onto the house all day,
but then most people don't. Most people are working, so

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they have to do it primetime. There Mandy. Two girls,
fifteen and seventeen, both are three sport competitors, obsessed with
the Olympics. Yeah, you know, my kid's not a sports kid.
She likes sports, but she's not a sports kid. There's
a difference, Cooper, Your kids' sports kids not really. No, Yeah,

(59:57):
and I think that there's nothing wrong with that. Obviously.
She has a a lot of other interests that she's
very passionate about, but sports is one of those things
that she likes. It is, she enjoys it, but you know,
I don't think it's her first thing that she loves.
Can't wait for the breakdance in competition on Friday, says
this texter. Maybe the youngest will get behind that, But

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see the sad part, fellow gen xer. They're not even
going to appreciate the majesty of pulling out a refrigerator
box throwing it on the living room floor and almost
killing yourself by falling onto the fireplace. So I'm not
saying that happened in my house, but I am saying
it happened in my house. We were there, We were
the og Breakdancers gen X. We were the ones that

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started that whole thing And they're not going to appreciate
it because they didn't think of it, or they're going
to think of it later and decide that it's amazing,
much like they discovered silent walking. This past Sunday, we
had a big family event in our house for Chuck's
birthday and a family reunion, and I was telling some
of our relatives about silent walking and how Jen Alpha

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thinks that they invented walking without headphones in or music
and just walking in silence. They came up with a
clever name for it, silent walking. Oh I know, this
person said, Mandy, break dances now a sport. Absolutely, I'm
stoked for it. I can't wait. I'm looking forward to it. Mandy,

(01:01:25):
did you see the guy that last the pole vaulting gold?
Because his and you know what knocked the pole down.
As a matter of fact, I did ladies and germs
and then I went to Twitter and I posted that
video and said, give me your best joke, and if
you give me just a minute, I'll pull that thread
up because it is magic and I can read most
of them. Let's see here, making sure that I'm scrolling

(01:01:50):
down to this because I'm telling you these jokes are
worth it. Here we go. Let me get back up
to this. Okay, it started. It started with this too
impressive for a dude to joke about it. Christa Kafer
Post lost the medal, but received one hundred and fifteen
nine hundred and eighty phone numbers and twelve eight hundred

(01:02:12):
and seventy hotel keys. This one says should have shopped
last year's Pride selection at Target for the tuckable option.
One says should have been a swimmer with the gift
of George Costanzas saying I was in the pool. If
you know you know this guy says, I mean, I
feel bad for that French pole vault guy, but at

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the same time, for the rest of his life he
can be like, I was this close to an Olympic medal.
He should have been disqualified for vaulting with two poles. Oh,
they just keep getting worse from there. Yep, yep, yep.
I'm trying to it's so many posted a bunch of gifts.
Hang on, uh, let's see it. Truly is a game

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of inches. At least he stuck the landing, missed it
by that much. Donald Trump could have made that jump
without any problem, says one texter. The golden rule to
pole vaulting and jumping out of a car. You got

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a tuck and roll one eight hundred got junk. Putting
it a hard day at work doesn't always pay off. Yeah, yeah,
spare the rod, spoil the Olympics. He's kind of a
big deal. Yeah, obviously still a winner. You can see

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all of them on my Twitter page at Mandy Connell.
You should check them all out. We'll be right back.
A one more comment about that pole vaulter from a
texter Mandy, he was obviously excited to be there. Thank you.
Try the buffet. I'll see myself out, Thank you, thank you.
I do have other news on the blog today, including

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a couple of stories that are seemingly disconnected, but they
are very connected. As we work our way through a
two tiered system of justice, one for people who espouse
the quote right viewpoints and one who espoused the wrong viewpoints,
those people being on the right. Ironically, the aforementioned people
with the right views being on the left. I have

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two stories today. One about the Fountain grandmother who is
being called the j six praying Grandma. She was recently
found guilty in a court of law of four misdemeanors
as she was charged for entering the US Capitol at
the Steal the Vote rally on January sixth of twenty
twenty one at the Capitol. Her name, by the way,

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is Rebecca Love. Friends. At the Capitol, she prayed outside
the building and then walked with the crowd that she
says guards beckoned inside. She looked around and after ten
minutes ten minutes, exited the building. For this year, he
faces a year in jail. The other story that I
want to bring to your attention is that a civil

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rights attorney is now pressuring the city of Denver to
drop the prosecution against pro Palestinian students who not only
pitched tents at the A Area campus, they then pooped
all over the place, destroyed the sod, did hundreds of
thousands of dollars worth of damage, and refused to leave.

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Do you know what they face three hundred days in
jail or a nine hundred and ninety nine dollars fine,
or both. So they face three hundred days in jail.
She faces a year in prison. Attorney Andy McNulty said
Monday about twenty students are being prosecuted for trespassing and
failure to obey a lawful order. He says, I hope

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that the city will drop the charges against these students
who were just out there executing their right to free speech.
That should be intolerable for a society that values free speech. Now,
I could argue that Miss Livrenz, the seventy six year
old grandmother who went to the capitol to pray before

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following others who were being beckoned inside and then walking
around for ten minutes and then leaving, was just expressing
her right to free speech. And I can also argue
that these young people were expressing their right to free
speech right up until the part where they trespassed. Pitched
tense and destroyed to bully quad. Right, So there you go.

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We'll see what happens. I mean, it could go either way,
but I thought that was interesting that both of these
stories were in the news today, so I grabbed both
of them, so you don't have to Now a great
column in the Denver Gazette today by Jimmy Sanenberger. Jimmy
is coming back on on Friday to talk about the
Teener Peters trial, which has gone insane. Yesterday went off

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the rails and they're trying to get stuff submitted into
the trial that has already been adjudicated elsewhere. It's just
a mess, and Jimmy is following it. He's going to
have a full report for us on Friday. But he's
got a great column about the similarities between the Colorado
GOP and Denver Public schools and they're absolute lack of shame. Now,

(01:07:22):
I didn't put this on the blog because I'm so
sick of talking about the drama. But a new hearing
has been granted for the people that were prevented from
having a legal meeting to oust David Williams and the
leadership of the Colorado GOP. Apparently they didn't give the
judge the facts about what's in the bylaws, and so
there may be a hearing and they may be able

(01:07:42):
to have a meeting sooner rather than later. It won't
matter because we're gonna have to pry David Williams out
of whatever building he's in that he thinks gives him
the most call to or authority to be Colorado Chairman.
So there you go. You need to read that column.
It is outstanding. And when we get back, we're going
to talk to my friend John Justice. He is with

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Twin Cities News Talk in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And when I
heard the Tim Walls was the VP pick of Kamala Harris,
I was like, I gotta call John first. I listened
to his show, and let's just say they are not excited,
except it would kind of be like if Jared Polis
was elevated to be vice president, I'd be like, oh,
oh crap, there it goes, you know that. But then

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at the same time, it'd be like, but he's not
going to be governor anymore. So there's a little bit
of hey, he's off our plate and a little bit
of hey, sorry America. We'll get the scoop next from
John Justice.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
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Speaker 5 (01:08:52):
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Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
I'm going right to the phone where my incredibly important
and very busy friend, John Justice from Twin Cities News
Talk is joining me. John, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to
your show this morning as you talked about your governor
Tim Walls in Minnesota being chosen as the vice presidential candidate.
Is it fair to say you are not impressed?

Speaker 12 (01:09:23):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Intro?

Speaker 13 (01:09:25):
Where do I get a song like that?

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
My show, the listener made it for me, that came
for the listener, John.

Speaker 5 (01:09:31):
Amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
Isn't it awesome? And it's catchy as hell. It'll be
stuck in your head the rest of the day. It's amazing.

Speaker 13 (01:09:37):
So impressed, Boy, that's a tough one to answer. Listen
from a host in Minneapolis standpoint and being able to
talk about all the massive failures of Governor Tim Walls. Sure,
I'm impressed in terms of Kamala Harris and her desire
to be the president choosing Tim Walls. Now that I've

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had a few hours to sit on it, I don't
think it was a smart move on her part.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
I got to tell you, this feels like a pick
for the base, and not to say that Minnesota is
not important, but Pennsylvania obviously far more important. A lot
of people are saying, look, Josh Shapiro was a better pick,
but why wasn't he chosen? And I think we both
know the answer to that.

Speaker 13 (01:10:19):
Yeah, I think we both do know the answer to that.
But I do think that there might be something a
little deeper in play relating to Minnesota and how vulnerable
Minnesota might be in the opportunity that Trump has to
change the electoral map of it. Prior to Kamala Harris
being anointed as the nominee, the polls were increasingly getting

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tighter here in Minnesota, and you know, there was talk
from Trump that he was going to be spending a
lot of time here. He already came here for a
rally in Duluth, and that was prior to Kamala Hara,
you know, taking over for Biden. So yeah, I think
you know, the reasons why Shapiro wasn't wasn't chosen are
pretty clear. But I also think that this might be

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a move to try to protect the state that they
thought was going to be safe and and may not.
I mean, there's a lot of different reasons, but I
think that may have had something to do with it
as well.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
And that's kind of sad for the Democrats, because I
mean'd correct me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 8 (01:11:15):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
I'm not going to pretend that I know the most
about you know, Minnesota politics. But do they feel like
they're losing their grip on the Midwest?

Speaker 13 (01:11:23):
I you know, I don't think so, not at the
not at the moment. You know, Minnesota is a strange,
a strange state, and the past couple of years, with
the dominance of the Democrats the DFL in the state,
you know a lot of conservatives have felt incredibly downtrodden
because this state typically you know, was had a divided

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government with it and it just hasn't been that way
the past few years. You know, the surrounding states have
kind of maintained their semblance of what they've been for
you know, a long long time, but Minnesota has been
kind of in transition. There was a lot of talk
that this was the year when we begin to sort
of turn things around.

Speaker 5 (01:12:02):
I think the.

Speaker 13 (01:12:03):
Impact for Minnesota, specifically of her choosing Tim Walls, is
going to be much greater than the impact that it
will have on her national campaign to be the to
be the president.

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
Tell me a little bit about Governor Tim Walls, tell
what can we expect. I mean, obviously he's just going
to be the veep, so we know that's mostly a
figurehead position unless they decide to depose Kamala Harris and
just insert him as a candidate. What do we need
to know about your governor?

Speaker 13 (01:12:32):
Is in framil that that's who he aspires to be.
He is very, very shifty, and I think this is
one of the reasons why Kamala Harris chose him specifically.
I think it's because he's a you know, he's he's
also a crescent wrench, meaning he's going to be a

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useful tool for her. He's very very savvy when it
comes to the media. He did the White Dudes for
Kamala a zoom call over the course of.

Speaker 5 (01:13:02):
The past week.

Speaker 13 (01:13:04):
Now on that Mandy, he got very aggressive and did
eleven name calling and he dropped his socialism is you know,
one person's socialism is another person's neighborlyness. Nonsense.

Speaker 3 (01:13:16):
Yeah, that was that was I mean, talk about are
they just rebranding socialism now it's not socialism, it's neighboring.
Neus to have the government force your money into someone
else's pocket.

Speaker 13 (01:13:28):
It's a ridiculous way to lay it out. The example
I keep giving, it's like saying, you know, one person's
serial killer is another person's population control. I mean, but
he he plays it up when he knows on you know,
he's in the friendly radical right crowd.

Speaker 5 (01:13:48):
But in the midst of all of it, all of
his auditioning on the national.

Speaker 13 (01:13:52):
Media for this job, because he was jockeying hard for it.
You know, he shows up at our Viking's training camp
and he's wearing his Viking shirt and a ball and
when he talks to local media, he becomes the folks dad,
and he downplays the weird narrative that he was pushing
out and saying he's not trying to be mean. He
is very, very savvy, and I think that's the role

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that he is going to play to try to blunt
all of the very real and irrelevant litany of criticisms
of Kamala Harris.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
So, policy wise, where is he on the spectrum? Where
would you place him center, center, left, left, left, and
hard left. Where would you put him on that spectrum?

Speaker 13 (01:14:33):
Where do you put Marxism on house?

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
Okay, yes, okay, we're gonna put that on the hard,
hard left.

Speaker 13 (01:14:38):
So he's a radical. He's an absolute radical. What he's
done in the state, the policies that they have proposed,
you know, some of the most radical abortion rights, you know,
no limitations on relating to what part of the you know,
what part of labor or the term the woman is in.

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He's granted rights for minors to undergo you know, gender
transition surgery and even empowered them to challenge parents in court.
If parents of minor children decide that they want to
go through this but their parents are pushing back against it,
He's enabled them to do that. He's adopted everything but

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making Minnesota sanctuary state. Driver's licenses for licenses for all,
free healthcare, the free meals for children. No, he has
adopted every single radical item that his party, the Democrats
the DFL in the state, have proposed, and basically signed
off on all of it. He is not a moderate.
They will try to cast him that way, but he

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is not a modern He is absolutely far left.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
See everything you just said, we already have in Colorado.
So you know, you guys are now caught up with us,
and we're out California in California now, so you do
not want to be like Colorado who is out California
in California. So it's good to know. Now I will remember,
I will paint him as a communist if you do
me a favor. And if anybody ever says our Governor
Jared Polis is a libertarian, just walk up and punch

(01:16:09):
him in the face and say that's from Colorado. Okay,
just like, let's just disabuse these notions as much as
we can. John Justice is my guest. He does the
morning show on Twin Cities Talk News Talk in Minneapolis. John,
I appreciate you very much. Man, I gotta take a break.

Speaker 9 (01:16:24):
That sounds good.

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
Thank you all right, that's John Justice. Thank you so much.
Now we know a little bit more about the hardcore
lefty that VP Kamala Harris has chosen for her ticket.
Things are shaping up nicely. Coming up at two thirty,
Comedian Emo Phillips joins us he is going to be
at comedy Works this weekend, and I am I'm a
little bit nervous about talking to him. Cooper. You know

(01:16:45):
who Emo Phillips is, right, I mean, do you remember
who he is?

Speaker 8 (01:16:48):
I do not know?

Speaker 3 (01:16:49):
Oh wow, he is his I was watching something earlier,
and they described his comedy as a combination of karaoke
and comedy because of the way his delivery is. It's
very melodic. You'll see when he calls. So that's coming
up very very soon. So I got a bunch of
stuff on the blog today, including this little nugget of story.

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I got sucked in by the headline. I wish I hadn't,
but yet I did. And now that this is something
I know, I'm gonna make you know it too. I'm
not gonna be the only one to know this. The
headline is the truth about Tolly Amory. I tolerate my
husband's infidelity to keep my idyllic lifestyle intact. Here's how

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I cope. Is a story about women who have cheating husbands,
and I'm assuming it could happen in the other direction
as well, that you could have a guy who is
a cheating wife, but they don't want to give up
their lifestyle, so they continue to not only just kind
of turn a blind eye. This story starts with this

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woman holding the hair of her husband, her husband's mistress
back while she threw up at a party at their home,
and she says it's hurtful and it's upsetting, but she
tolerates it because she likes the life they have together.
And I'm thinking to myself, of course, I've talked about
this on the show before, but now there's a clever

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name for it. TOLLI Amory get it. Tolerating? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:18:29):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
I know people who have gone through instances of infidelity
in their marriage and both partners committed to fixing the
problem and they worked it out and went through the
rest of their lives with no more issues. And I
know people who went through periods of infidelity and they
worked really hard on their marriage and then there was

(01:18:51):
more periods of infidelity and they decided to leave. And
I know people that are in this exact situation, and
they're all women. There are people that I know are women.
I don't know if there's any men that are in
this situation. And most of the time there's a financial
component to it. I'm not gonna lie. I thought I'm
Malania Trump, because you know, she's not given up her lifestyle,

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but she's sure not exactly the doting wife at this point.
But this is gross that we're now giving it a name.
I feel the same way. I found out when somebody
started calling really crappy behavior on the road road rage,
and then people would flippantly be like, oh my god,
my road rage was out of control, and I'm like,
that's not cool because what you just said is, yeah,

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I was gonna I was a complete dill hole on
the road. And now we've given this like, oh it's
tolly amoryugh, gross, just gross. Now, Chuck and I have
long said, ultimately like if Chuck wants to be with
somebody else, who's gonna be with somebody else? Right, We

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work on our marriage on a regular basis and we're very,
very happy, so I don't really worry about that happening.
But if it did, I can assure you he would
not be welcomed back with open arms, nor would I
be welcome back with open arms should I decide to
step out.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
It doesn't mean that we wouldn't work things out eventually,
but there would definitely be a period of separation. I
just I can't see living like this. Terrible, absolutely terrible
that people are willing to accept this. But hey, you
know what, everybody has their price. And I don't mean
it to sound as bad as it sounds, but everybody

(01:20:34):
has the stuff they're willing to put up with, right,
everybody has the things about their spouse that drives them crazy,
and they've decided math wise it's worth sticking around for.
But man, why not make it an open marriage. The
chick is obviously cheating too. See, that's the thing in
a tolly amory situation. And this is why I think

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this is way more common than people realize, because men
don't necessarily lose their sex drive as they get older.
Women often around menopause, around perimenopause, they start to lose
their sex drive, and an imbalance in sex drive is
a huge issue in the marriage. So that's something that

(01:21:17):
in any marriage you have to communicate about relentlessly. You
can't just not talk about it. And at some point
she indicated she wasn't really that interested, and he said, well,
I'm not gonna not have sex. He was honest about it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:32):
But oh my.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
Goodness, can you imagine, Hi, Mandy, my wife would kill
me violently and the other woman would probably not have
her hair gently held. Correct. The polycommunity is huge in
the renaissance community. You could ask me about it, but
not on the air, please. I you know, here's the thing.
I don't care if someone else wants to do that,

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or really don't. I always worry if they're children involved,
because I always see it not ending well. But that
being said, grown ups have to make their own decisions
and grown ups have to live with the results, and
I don't have to live with the negative consequences of
your actions. So there you go, Nanny Diaries, says this person.

(01:22:15):
Lady said, basically, all the men had mistresses and it's acceptable.
You can't see living like it because you're normal. Yeah,
and I guess normal is bad now. Dang it, hate
it when I fall out of favor again. When we
get back. Comedian Emo Phillips joins me, next, I am
thrilled to have a guy who first made me laugh
a long long time ago. I don't even want to

(01:22:37):
say how long ago. Emo Phillips is going to be
in the comedy works this weekend here in Denver, and
he joins me, now, may I call you Emo?

Speaker 5 (01:22:48):
Oh? Yeah, yes, and thank you for saying that. When
did you see me when you were a girl? Well,
I was.

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
It was nineteen eighty seven, so it was my senior
year in high school, and you were part of this
incredible wave of comedians that came out in the eighties
that were all so different and unique from what had
come before. And you were part of that, Me and.

Speaker 5 (01:23:14):
Bob Kake, Goldfleet, Yep, Oliver North.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
I think, yeah, his work is very funny, very very funny.

Speaker 5 (01:23:25):
Steve Right, Yes we were, Yes, yes, it was an
amazing silk So, Ema.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
What do you what do you attribute your longevity to
in the comedy world?

Speaker 9 (01:23:40):
What do I?

Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
Well, I just like to make people laugh. It's it's
the best job on earth, you know. And I and
I think I've always tried to have a clean act
as well. Yeah, just where and now I think that
that's good. I think a comedian that needs the F
word to get a laugh is like a martial arts
expert that needs a gun.

Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
And that makes me very happy to have you on
the show because I don't have to keep my finger
lingering over the dump button as you speak. You are
hailed by many, as one of them.

Speaker 5 (01:24:14):
A lot about your says, a lot about your diet.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
Yes, yes, yes it does. You've been ailed by many,
including one of my listeners who said, oh my gosh,
can't believe you're having Emo phillips on. He is the
greatest joke writer in the history of joke writers. And
I think that's interesting because the way you deliver a
joke is unlike any way I've ever heard to, as
you just evidenced by dropping Oliver North into the list

(01:24:39):
of Amazing comedians of the nineteen eighties. How do you
tell me about that process when you see something that
strikes you as funny and you decide to make it
a joke.

Speaker 5 (01:24:49):
Well, I've always thought you could. You could get a
laugh by by simply turning something upside down, you know, right,
like a small child. And when I was a kid,
I was always learning to because I was I was
always bullied at school, so I had to use my

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wits to survive. Once. You might appreciate this. Once, when
I was a kid, I beat I actually beat up
the school bully. Both his arms were completely broken, which
is what gave me the courage.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:25:37):
I used to play chess, Yeah, a lot. I was
a chess I still I like to play chess with
old men in the park, but you know, try finding
thirty two of them. And you know what else I
appreciate is my health. I've always taken care of my health,

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and I have a diet that I've been on, and
it's called the eight sixteen diet. Have you heard of it?

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
I have not.

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
I've tried a lot of diets, so I'm surprised.

Speaker 5 (01:26:06):
Well, this is this is this is simplicity in itself.
You you're fast for sixteen hours and you could sleep
during part of it, so it's not that hard. And
you don't even have milk in your coffee, no no protein,
no calories whatsoever. And that eight hours you you could
just eat reasonably and that the waste just comes off.

(01:26:27):
Apparently the science is that after after twelve hours, your
body starts eating itself, so you can't do it if
you're a vegan.

Speaker 3 (01:26:39):
I knew that was going.

Speaker 5 (01:26:40):
Somewhere, which is fine for me because I love I
love animals. Don't wear a fur. Did you know that
a single fur cult takes fourteen trees just where the
protest signs email.

Speaker 3 (01:26:54):
Well, I'm not nearly as clever as you are, but
this is what people.

Speaker 5 (01:26:57):
This is what people, This is what people forced to
hide it in our society.

Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
Well, you know, trust me, my audience probably finds me amusing.
Sometimes I wanted to I wanted to ask you this
You have a distinctive look, You have a distinctive sound.
Your comedy has been described as karaoke meets comedy just
because of the unique way you deliver your jokes. Have
you always been like.

Speaker 5 (01:27:21):
This karaoke meets comedy?

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
Well, in the melodic way you speak.

Speaker 5 (01:27:29):
Okay, I didn't know the audience could see the monitor
from anyway, What's what's your question?

Speaker 3 (01:27:40):
My question was, have you always been like this or
is this a kind of characterized version of yourself that
you've developed over the years.

Speaker 5 (01:27:49):
Well, when I was a kid, I was I guess
I was like this, you know. I mean I learned
how to how to. Yeah, I was always ahead of
the game. I think other people feared me because I
was the next stage of evolution. That's how people are.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
But then when I was a kid, I just said
I wanted to be in show business, And now my
nephew wants to You're not going to believe this. My
nephew wants to be in show business as a rap star. Really, yeah,
so maybe I could after I get off the air,
I could send you his music, he says, I have

(01:28:30):
to call him by his rap name. You're not gonna
believe this mcxxx, I said, I'm your uncle. I am
not calling you mcxxx. You will always be eleven thirty
to me.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
Now, my friends with a Roman numerals joke for you
slow people in the audience. That was very well done.

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
You.

Speaker 5 (01:28:53):
I always one thing I like working as the Comedy Works.
And by the way, I'm going to be at the
down Town branch.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
Yes, you're gonna be at the Downtown Comedy Works Thursday,
Friday and Saturday night. And also, just so you know,
I have a blog. It's very clever. I do it
every day and I put a link so people could
just go right to the blog and buy their tickets
right from the blog to see you this weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:29:16):
Can you get a percentage?

Speaker 3 (01:29:17):
No, I wish, I wish I did. I'm just out
of the kindness of my heart.

Speaker 5 (01:29:22):
You are so kind. Well you do what you do.

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
I do what I do to support you, and it's
just very simpatico.

Speaker 5 (01:29:29):
Thank you for spreading Emophelia. I have a very smart
audience at the Comedy Works, and that's what I like
about working there. I like smart people because smart people
don't heckle. If a smart person doesn't like a show,
he just blames himself for not having more scuously research

(01:29:52):
just entertainment options. Right, I mean, stupid people shout you suck.
Smart people think I suck for not googling you.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
Exactly right, exactly right.

Speaker 5 (01:30:03):
And this is a great interview to do because we're
scaring away a lot of the stupid people.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
You know what, I pride myself on scaring away the
stupid people on this program every day. Emo, It's really
my goal. As a matter of fact, that's the show motto.
Scare away the stupid people. That's all it is. There,
you've just uncovered, you've seen the man behind the curtain
on this.

Speaker 5 (01:30:22):
You have to you have to find the Latin for that.
Then it'll really be impression. You know why.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
I'll get people on that right now. Where did you
grow up, Emo?

Speaker 5 (01:30:32):
I grew up in Illinois in a suburb called Downers Grove.
It's near Chicago, Okay. And and and one of the
biggest thrills of my life when I was a kid,
our church group went to California, I mean, to Colorado,
to the Rockies, and I've never seen mountains before, and

(01:30:52):
I thought, this is where I want to wind up. Yeah,
in the mountains of Colorado. Have you been to Illinois?

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
I have, I have.

Speaker 5 (01:31:02):
Our big hero is Abraham Lincoln. Yeah, you know Lincoln.
This is you want a little interesting tidbit, since you
like smart.

Speaker 3 (01:31:10):
Things, I love tidbits.

Speaker 5 (01:31:12):
Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born the exact same day.
Can you believe it? February twelfth, eighteen o nine. Lincoln
and Darwin, the two sworn enemies of the South.

Speaker 3 (01:31:26):
Yes, yes, indeed, yes, indeed.

Speaker 5 (01:31:30):
Emo, you are I like the South? Of course I'm prejudiced. See,
I used to live in Atlanta. Have you ever been
to Atlanta?

Speaker 12 (01:31:44):
Many?

Speaker 3 (01:31:45):
Many times. I used to be a flight attendant for
Delta Airlines. So yes, well there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:31:48):
Who are those fellows? Oh gosh, oh with the uniforms.
They're trying to reenact the Civil War Georgia. Stay troopers.
I picked up a hitchhiker. You gotta you know when
you hit them? Anyway? Are you going to come to
the show at the comedy work?

Speaker 6 (01:32:08):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
I just might do that. I just might do that.
I got to check with my husband and see what
he has planned. But I you know, this is the emails.
Let me ask you this because well, here's what I'm
afraid happened.

Speaker 5 (01:32:19):
About your husband. I want to ask you about your husband.
How long you've been married?

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
We have been married. Oh, I'm not good at dates.
Let me thank here for a second. Let me just
a math. I've been married seventeen years.

Speaker 5 (01:32:30):
You must have been good on dates. I had led
the marriage.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
Yeah, I'd like to think so, and it seems to
have worked out so far.

Speaker 5 (01:32:38):
I just did a show in Paris, and it was
very hard because that's where my wife and I had
our last fight. We're divorced. Our last fight Mandy was
in Paris. Isn't that sad?

Speaker 3 (01:32:50):
What were you fighting about?

Speaker 5 (01:32:52):
Well, she was in desperate need of a beauty parlor.
But how do you tell somebody something like that?

Speaker 3 (01:33:01):
Okay, just so you know, one of my listeners already
found out. Apparently whatever I said in Latin is terrence
stultorium hominem. So now we know. Now we know, drive
away to stupid people.

Speaker 5 (01:33:14):
You're doing if you're very smart listeners or they have
they're good at googling.

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
Yeah, either one. We accept both. On this program. We
don't need people to be authentically smart as long as
they put up a good show.

Speaker 5 (01:33:26):
Maybe he's a priest a priest, and they, well, they
have to know Latin. Oh that's right, that's right, Yes,
I think you know, it's really weird. I look back
at my long life, Mandy, I think I would have
been a good priest. Oh really, not not for the
traditional reasons, but to serve God. But I was raised Baptist,

(01:33:51):
and when I was a kid, I once I to
I used to pray every night for a new bike.
Then I realized the Lord doesn't work that way. So
I just stole want and ask them to forgive me.

Speaker 8 (01:34:05):
Anyway.

Speaker 5 (01:34:06):
It's good to be indoors.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
Emo Phillips is live this weekend at the Comedy Works Downtown.
He's got shows Thursday at seven thirty, Friday and Saturday
at seven thirty and Friday and Saturday at nine forty
five pm. Yeah, well yeah, you probably. Well you can
go to their website. It's very easy to find, very
very easy.

Speaker 5 (01:34:27):
I'll just go to your blog and find the line.

Speaker 3 (01:34:29):
That's mandy'sblog dot com. No apostrophe because you can't have,
you know, correct punctuation in a URL. They don't like that.
Are you active online?

Speaker 12 (01:34:38):
I am?

Speaker 5 (01:34:38):
I'm on Twitter mostly.

Speaker 3 (01:34:40):
Yeah, And do you enjoy the format at Twitter, because
I have to tell you I love Twitter. I'm one
of those people Twitter.

Speaker 5 (01:34:47):
It's so addicting, isn't it It is?

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
And it's so fun to try and get the snork
down to just a few characters.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
Oh I know, I know that sounds like my parties,
Emo Phillips.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
At, Emo Phillips on X. I just followed you, so
I can't wait to see what you've got to say there. Yes,
I appreciate you coming on the show, Emo, and I
hope you have a fantastic you. Have you spent any
time other than your church trip actually in Denver? Have
you been here in some time?

Speaker 5 (01:35:20):
I've been there many many times. It's one of my
appslute favorite cities to visit, and especially around the comedy works.
It's gotten so crazy. The city is burgeoned.

Speaker 3 (01:35:34):
Yeah, oh yes, oh yes, just wait, well, there's hopefully
far a few are homeless people roaming around Since the
last time you were here, we've been shoving them all
into homeless hotels now so nobody has to look at them.

Speaker 5 (01:35:45):
I was the last time I was in Denver. This
man approached me. He said, I need something to eat,
I need something to drink. I need a place to stay,
so I'm thinking O okay street improv I said, okay,
Margarita a sa Alfredo, and why rency your blake and
wichcondent God hazzle me. But there's the reason some of

(01:36:09):
us may be work indoors.

Speaker 3 (01:36:11):
Yes, Emo Phillips, thank you so much. This has been
an absolute choice. And I can't wait to call my
brother who watched all of those young comedian specials and
watched your nineteen eighty seven special with me that we
went to the video store and rented at the time
on VCR tape unless somebody else rented it before we
did and not you know, those bastards they never rewound.

(01:36:31):
But then I can't wait to tell him I talk
to you. You've just been a part of my life
for so many years and I appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (01:36:38):
Well. You must please come to this show and please
bring your husband.

Speaker 3 (01:36:41):
All right, I will see you there, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:36:43):
And where your uniform from Delta?

Speaker 3 (01:36:46):
If only I could still fit into it. I was
far younger and far hotter back then the EMO than I.

Speaker 5 (01:36:50):
Am now, well even different rips. Thank you, sir, have
a great day, and Mama, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
Thank you, Emo Phillips. We'll talk again soon, I hope.
All right. See, here's what I'm afraid of. You go
to the show and he says something to you laugh,
and then you miss the next joke because he blo
boo boom. They just bam bam come like that. Man,

(01:37:28):
that's that's oh gosh. Now, at some point I have
to interview Andrew dice Clay for the full trifecta of
comedians from that era, because I've already interviewed Stephen Wright once.
That was not my favorite interview Stephen Wright. I was
really nervous. Now, I don't get nervous about stuff like that.
I mean, you know, he's a comedian. What are you

(01:37:49):
gonna do? You can't really break it? Yes, Coober, All right,
now we're gonna head over technologically speaking, of course, to
Bronco's training camp where when mister Ryan Edwards waits, Ryan,
tell me about what happened today.

Speaker 11 (01:38:05):
I'm just stuck on Andrew dice Clay at the Hickory
Dickory Dock and all this.

Speaker 12 (01:38:08):
Stuff right now, ran up the car. Yeah yeah, that
was that was pretty fun. I liked I liked his
fight in Paris. That was oh yeah, it was so subtle,
but it was good. All of his jokes are like.

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
That, you don't see. My mom used to tell these
jokes when I was a kid, and they were called
shaggy dog stories because you did not see the punchline coming.
And that's how his whole set is. It's like one
thing after another and then it's like the middle of
the set, he'll bring back the beginning of the set
out of nowhere and you're just like, come on, man,
come on.

Speaker 8 (01:38:38):
No.

Speaker 11 (01:38:38):
That was it was really fun. It was really fun.

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
It was really fun.

Speaker 5 (01:38:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:38:42):
So today, you know, today was a good day with
practice at the.

Speaker 12 (01:38:44):
Pads on They were working on some short yardage stuff,
although Sean Payton very upset with the way practice went
today and he voiced it after practice.

Speaker 11 (01:38:52):
So we'll talk a little about that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:54):
But I can I and I wish you to ask,
is Dave on today or there he and all off
with who's with you?

Speaker 11 (01:38:58):
That was with me today?

Speaker 3 (01:38:59):
Okay, this is a question I'd like to ask a
football player, Like it feels a little formulaic that at
this point in training class or training camp the coach
is going to go off about something. Yeah, like this
is the time in training camp where the coach gets
mad and he's got to yell at everybody. So I
I almost like I could have told you that if
not today tomorrow, you know, at a minimum.

Speaker 12 (01:39:22):
You're right it's about I mean heading into the first
preseason game this weekend, and you know, the guys are
probably at a point in camp where you've hit the
same guys over and over again for two straight weeks,
not even including the offseason oas and all that. So yeah,
you probably get to that point where he's just like, hey, guys, look,
if we want to be the team want to be,
we've got to step it up.

Speaker 11 (01:39:42):
But even then it could be a little manufactured.

Speaker 4 (01:39:44):
I don't know, but he he.

Speaker 12 (01:39:45):
Seemed annoyed by that, and he was annoyed by all
the incessant questions about the unofficial depth chart.

Speaker 3 (01:39:50):
So do you think you guys are going to ask
about I don't know why, I don't know yelling you
today was the day for the coach to be mad. Yeah,
in the script of how training ca MP goes, I
think we'll bring them a lot of day tomorrow. Okay,
he is he really responsible? We were so close to
Pumpkin's spice law. Taste hair right so close, And now
it's time for the most exciting segment all the radio

(01:40:12):
of its kind, the world of the day.

Speaker 11 (01:40:17):
All right, what you've been missed that yesterday? I don't
don't know what he was.

Speaker 3 (01:40:21):
I don't know. Yesterday was just an unfortunate yell. It
was just an unfortunate situation. We're just going to pretend
it didn't happen. Okay, okay, what is our dad joke
of the day, Please couver Our.

Speaker 11 (01:40:30):
Dad joke is what did one toilet say to the other?

Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
You look flushed? Yes, you up here are no word
of the day. Please cove by liage? What spell that
V A L A y A g E?

Speaker 11 (01:40:47):
Can you use it in a sentence?

Speaker 5 (01:40:49):
Isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:40:49):
Isn't it like to do like a gradation of color
on hair? That's ballyage. I'm right by the way. You
are right, Yeah, wow, Yeah, I was not even close. Yeah,
trust me and just stick with me for the hair questions. Ryan,
Here's what I don't know the answer to what is
the largest species of porcupine? I have no idea. Let's

(01:41:12):
just say this, Ryan, if you don't know it, you're
not gonna guess it. My friend the North African crested porcupine,
which grows up for thirty six inches long. The smallest
porcupine is the Bhea Harry dwarf porcupine, which grows up
to fifteen inches long. That good, good, yet work? I
wanted to make it fancy.

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
Yeah, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:41:32):
What's our trivia question or our jeopardy category? Excuse me?

Speaker 4 (01:41:36):
Actresses?

Speaker 3 (01:41:37):
Actresses?

Speaker 11 (01:41:38):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:41:39):
Acting?

Speaker 4 (01:41:40):
All right? Question one?

Speaker 11 (01:41:42):
This Italian beauty who married.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
Carlo punk Mandy? Who is Sophia Laren?

Speaker 4 (01:41:47):
Yes, okay.

Speaker 14 (01:41:50):
This star of an officer and a gentleman once lived
in Israel, where she trained with Ryan Oh dang.

Speaker 3 (01:41:56):
It, yeah, dang it. One to one could remember her name.
I was get her mixed up with Karen Allen initially,
and then I have to fix him in my head.

Speaker 11 (01:42:05):
Go ahead, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:42:05):
Question three.

Speaker 14 (01:42:06):
At a nineteen ninety three auction, her best actress oscar.

Speaker 11 (01:42:09):
For Mildred Pierce sold for sixty eight five hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:42:12):
Alter Pierson pers I think I think I know who
that was, but I'm not confident enough. I don't know Mandy.
Who's Joan Crawford?

Speaker 4 (01:42:22):
Correct o, nice work, heyny dearest.

Speaker 3 (01:42:25):
Oh yeah, all right.

Speaker 11 (01:42:27):
Question four.

Speaker 14 (01:42:28):
In the nineteen thirties, This Death Stry Rides Again star
refused an invitation.

Speaker 11 (01:42:33):
From Hitler to return to German films.

Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
Mandy, who's Marlena Dietrich? Correct?

Speaker 4 (01:42:39):
Yeah, come on, coop And question five.

Speaker 14 (01:42:43):
This Silent Screen star directed his sister right, should restart this?
This Silent Screen star directed her sister Dorothy in the
nineteen twenty film remodeling her husband.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
I got nothing for quiet. Nope, we're good, Lillian Gish,
Lillian Gish as it were, all right, who you got
coming up on KOA Sports?

Speaker 12 (01:43:05):
Ryan, Uh, Well, we've got we got Alan Studio, So
we'll react to all the things with training can at
the last with a really big trade that might be
going down here any minute now in the leagues. We'll
get to all that coming up in just a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
All right, that's KOA Sports coming up next. We'll be
back tomorrow with another big, fat show, So keep it
right here on KOA