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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a one hour edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next big old Let's see
here fifty five minutes, roughly joined today by Grant.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So happy to have you back. Grant.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm glad to be here. That's the first time I've
heard your updated theme song.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Wait, I got to.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Send you the email with all of the other theme
songs that ross that are our engineer at iHeart. He
made a bunch of them with AI, just like that one,
and they are you'll die laughing, Grant. I sat at
my desk and laughed until I cried.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Because they're so funny. There's a skull one. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Anyway, AI's amazing, absolutely amazing. Just real quick, Grant, what's
coming up today on the Taking It for Granted podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Since it is Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Actually, I was just talking to Dragon about this before
I came on with you. I've taken a couple weeks
off of the podcast, trying to work on my time
management a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Ah, time management. Time time is always the boogaboo, isn't
it it is? Do you want me to give you
a real sobering piece of advice before we do the blog. Sure,
at the end of every day, check your usage for
the day, and you will recognize that there's so much
more time in the day, but you spend most of
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it on your phone and not you. I'm not saying you, Grant,
I'm saying you the world.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That is a very sobering exercise to check your screen
usage at the end of every day.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, I haven't recommend, I haven't update me. And some
days I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't. I stared
at this little freaking computer in my pocket all.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Day and Grant, I go back and try and justify
it them, like, well, surely I was looking.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
On stuff of the show.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I mean, I couldn't have just been on crappy Instagram
videos for seven hours. No, I was on crappy Instagram
videos for seven hours. I've been trying to do this
thing where I leave my phone across the room, right
so if something happens or goes off or whatever, I
know it's going there.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
But oh my god, it's like it calls to you.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's crazy, the pull that these little boxes of you know,
distractions have created over us. It's almost it's really lets
you know, how easily people are manipulated. Yeah right, I
mean we are so easily manipulated by algorithms and everything else,
and we know we're being manipulated, and yet we're still manipulated.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And then we open the Instagram or whatever app you're
looking at and you're like, well, I'm bored by all this.
I still had to look at it because I'm addicted
to it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's like crack.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
But I'm telling you, if you're working on time management,
which is some area of my life that I have
always failed miserably, I'm just gonna straight up throw myself
under the bus. And that is a very sobering experience
to just look at your phone use it forces you
to get real about time management, right, So I hope
that helps and doesn't ruin your life.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Let's find the blog. It's easy by going to mandy'sblog
dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for latest posts
and the headline eight fourteen twenty four blog A big
hour show before Baseball. Click on that and here are
the headlines you will find within.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I think to listen miss in office half of American
all with ships and clipments and say that's a prans Flint.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Today in the blog Baseball Eats the Show at one,
something cool just happened with our Korea and Japan trip.
Dave Williams will not go quietly. A serial rapist is
found guilty. Hey, look a triple shooting on the sixteenth
Street Mall. His son's death broke him. Scrolling, will anyone
be convicted? From January sixth? Now that the government has
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been checked again? Scrolling, scrolling, hang on, scrolling. Stephen Colbert
gets a big laugh, scrolling. Oh hey, look, hunter Biden
tried to call on government to help business deals. Funny parents,
raise happier kids? Is burning man over so many of
these causes of death or lifestyle related. The Ukraine offensive
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into Russia has been very successful. They're just making stuff
up in climate science. And now your daily reminder, Graham,
I need you to do me something really quick. I
need you to go to the blog, scroll down and
read or watch the video at the very bottom, and
now you're daily reminder. I just need you to do this.
I need you to do it, Okay, and then come
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back and let me know you've watched it. Okay, here
we go. I'm going to talk about some other stuff. Well,
Grant is doing his assignment. There is obviously only an
hour show the Rockies take over at one couple of
things I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Let you know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I mentioned this yesterday when we talked to Bethany from
Cruise and Tour. The way Cruise and Tour and other
travel companies book these trips from people that were then
going to sell. They book blocks of rooms in certain hotels,
they start building the trip over various elements, right, and
the last thing they do is airfare, because airfare can
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only be purchased a certain amount a certain number of
days ahead of the trip, so airfare is always the
lagging thing. Well, they got a huge, really great deal
on airfare to South Korea for our Mandy Connle adventure,
and we were able to pass those savings through to passengers.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And if you've already.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Booked the trip, you are going to get a call
and they're gonna say, hey, we're gonna give you some
money back.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But we've never had this happen. It's just never occurred before.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
They're very very good at sort of guessing the number
for airfare, but they got a really good deal. So
if you like to check it out. You can go
to Mandy Connell trip dot com. It is very very good.
The trip is awesome. I can't wait and I'm super
stoked to go to Japan. I've been reading about Kyoto,
and I didn't know anything about Kyoto. But Kyoto, I think,
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is where I'm looking the most forward to going out
of all the places. But just go to Mandyconnell trip
dot com and look there for more, or you can
call Cruise and Tour one eight three eight three thirty one.
So let's talk about some stuff that is on the blog.
And because I only have an hour, Dave Williams, now
we have talked this stuff to death. Grant, did you
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watch it yet? Did you watch the video? Correct your
daily reminder? You did not see that coming down, did you?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I did.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No. It's a song about one of my favorite topics.
Every year at Christmas, for the rest of my life,
I will pull a Christmas tree ornament out of the
Christmas Tree ornament box that says this ornament didn't hang
itself with a photo of Jeffrey Epstein on it. That
joke will never get old? Do you realize this never?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Didn't mean to distract myself with a joke that I
think never gets old. So the Colorado GOP is still
an unmitigated disaster, and it's an unmitigated disaster because the
current chairman. I'm just doing a quick refresh here in
case you've forgotten about this ridiculous soap opera.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You've just joined the show for the first time.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So the current Colorado chairman has been a massive failure.
He used party funds to support his own failed candidacy
and send out mailers against other Republicans that were running
against him.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
He's been shady as hell. He hasn't been raising money.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Fourteen of the eighteen Republicans he and others in the
Colorado GOP leadership endorsed in the primaries law. He's been
a failure at every turn. And when a group of
Republicans got together to follow the bylaws and call a
meeting to talk about deposing him, he ran to a judge,
lied to the judge about what the bylaws say, and
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got to stay. Well, that stay has been lifted after
the judge heard the actual information, and now he's looking
to do it again. He is looking to make a
bylaw amendment that makes it harder to call a special
meeting to remove the Colorado GOP chairman or other party officers.
Now there are two meetings scheduled coming up, one by
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the people trying to oust David Williams. That has been rescheduled,
and that meeting is happening, and that meeting is legitimate.
That meeting has been called according to the current Republican bylaws.
Now David Williams also called a Central co meeting August
thirty first, And everyone who is going to this out
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David Williams meeting needs to go to that Central Committee meeting.
That you have to go.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm begging you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
This is the only hope that the Republican Party in
Colorado has is if the Republican Party Central Committee gets
together and recognizes what an absolute disaster Dave Williams has
been for the party.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
He has shrunk the party, not grown the party.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He has run people that have been actively involved in
Republican politics for literal decades out of the party because
they weren't pure enough.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He sent out a purity test where you had.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
To claim your allegiance to Donald Trump. You had to
claim your allegiance I guess to Dave Williams, it's absurd.
The way he's trying to run this party and all
he's doing is running into the ground.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
So please stop the grift.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Please, if you're in the Central Committee, I need you
to call everybody else that you know in.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
The Central Committee. This has to end.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
This is doing nothing to support Republican causes in Colorado
or even good Republican candidates. The candidates who are running
for office right now are doing so completely alone, and
that's coming from the candidate's campaigns themselves. That's been an
absolute nightmare and it needs to end. So please, for
the love of all the Holy if you are in
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the Central Committee, go and vote this guy out.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It is time to.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Move on and maybe maybe create some semblance of a
functioning opposition party to the almost complete and total democratic rule.
In my complete total, I mean veto pro proof majorities
and stuff like that, supermajorities where Republicans don't even have
to show up and they can do whatever they want.
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So yeah, it's so necessary. So please, please, please, please,
if you know anyone in the Central Committee, it's time.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's time.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
A change of leadership is not not you know, desired,
it is non negotiable. There has to be new leadership
of the Republican Party anyway, Okay, moving on from that.
So have you guys been following the story of doctor
Stephen Matthews And he is a guy? This is okay.
So this guy is a relatively good looking man. You know,
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I like balding men, so he's balding. But he's a
relatively good looking man. He is a cardiologist. He is
probably living a life that.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Many men would dream of.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But instead of living a life as a decent looking
cardiologist who could probably go to any dating app and
get any woman that he wants, well, he did exactly that,
but instead of building a relationship with them, he drugged
eleven of them and then sexually assaulted nine of them
when they were passed out from the drugs.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Like what the blank.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well, he has been found guilty on almost all the
sexual assault brought against him, and he's now facing life
in prison. And this is one of those things where
if he doesn't get life in prison, then I'm gonna
have to say, you just don't value you don't value
women in society enough, because this guy is a predator.
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He purposely lured women back to his house and then
he drugged him and then he raped him I mean,
this guy is a just a horrific evil person and
he's sobbing when he gets found guilty. And all I
could think of was, what are you sobbing over? Are
you sobbing over the fact that you did these things
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and you've been found guilty because you did them, or
you sobbing because you know you're going to prison for
the rest of your life if there's any real justice.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So I don't know. That story has been crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
This story has lifetime movie written all over it, or
maybe an episode of like Law and Order. You know,
they are ripped from the headlines. They're all ripped from
the headlines. So I'm glad he got found guilty. I've
been following that case, and you know, I don't really
talk about crime stories until they're done, because what's the point.
I'm not doing a crime podcast where I want to
walk you through every single second of every single day.
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But once things are done, then I will absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Talk them up.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I got a lot of stuff on the blog and
I have very little time, so it's going to be
a speedy show. This story is the saddest story I
have seen in the longest time.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And I remember when this young man.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Was killed, and I thought to myself, this I can't
even imagine being his dad.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And I'm talking about la Bomba.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Sayers Junior who was killed last year, murdered in the
street and he was trying to protect his sister when
he was shot. She was also shot and he was
murdered and left to die in the streets in five points.
So the part that made that that made me wonder,
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how is this guy going to deal with this is
that his son, Mumba Sayers Sior, has been an anti
violence activist. He runs an organization that is dedicated to
giving kids an option that takes them away from violence, and.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
This was his son that was killed.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, now we know how he reacted because now Lammba
Sayer's senior has been arrested for walking into a birthday
party and allegedly shooting a man named Malcolm Watson in
the head and killing him at a child's birthday party. Now,
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you don't go from being an anti violence advocate to
shooting someone at the head of the birthday party unless
you suffer the kind of trauma that this guy went
through last year with his son. And I'm reading this
and I'm gonna be honest, like, how many of you,
how many of you men out there, some women, how
many of you would they?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You know what if that was my kid, I don't
know that I wouldn't do the same thing. You know.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The culture that he's trying to fix, the culture that
he is trying to remedy, the culture of violence that
takes so many young lives, especially black and brown lives.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This is what he was trying to fix.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
And now it's like he just said, Okay, if this
is what we're gonna do, I'll do it too.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Listen to this about his son's shooting.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Sayers Junior, an open anti violence activist who created Gloves Up,
Guns Down, Get Your Heads Up in the Hood, a
nonprofit organization which guided youth to ditch their guns and
instead use their voices to solve their problems, was allegedly
protecting his sister during the shooting. Suspect Terrell Braxton, twenty four,
was arrested a month after the shooting on suspicion of
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first degree murder and first degree assault, but that case
has been sealed and the Denver District Attorney couldn't not
talk about its disposition. Denver Police Department has announced no
other rests arrests in the year old double homicide. So
obviously this dude cut a deal, don't you think. I mean,
that's what it sounds like to me if the case
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has been sealed and nobody can.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Talk about it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But I bet you this LAMUMBOE. Sayers Senior knows the disposition.
I bet he knows what happened, and he probably feels
like the police just weren't gonna do anything because they'd rather,
you know, get whatever. Did he kill the shooter of
his son, No, he did not. He killed one of
his close associates, So.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I'm guessing he believed there was more of a connection
there than was initially thought.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I'm completely speculating. I'm speculating like this because I have
compassion for this man. I mean, I can't even imagine
your kid gets murdered and then you don't get to know,
you don't get to see justice when the actual murder
has his case sealed and you don't you know either,
you don't know what happened. You're just assuming it's a terrible,
terrible story. And now this man is no longer out
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there trying to stop the violence in the neighborhood because
he became part of it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And now all of these kids, what about all the
kids that utilize his club? What about them? I mean,
this is a tragic story, just tragic. Mandy.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Doctor Matthews was my brother in law's cardiologist. He said
he was extremely arrogant and condescending.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
There you go to the person who said, what did
KBB accomplished when in the seat?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, Kelly Burton Brown didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Use sixty thousand dollars of party funds for her own campaign.
Kelly Burton Brown didn't change the bylaws to endorse in primaries,
something that had never been done in the Republican Party
fourteen out of eighteen, of which those endorsements lost. So
Kelly Burn Brown didn't get things done in the way
I would have liked because it was an incredibly difficult
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political environment. But she didn't actively work to destroy the
party like Dave Williams did.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
So I'm gonna go KBB for the win. Just letting
you know, Mandy.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'd be calling eight point one in this case to
make sure that I don't hit any cables. I get
what you're putting down right there. And I think this
is going to be one of those cases that a
good defense attorney can get a jury to come back
in a way that would be a lot easier, because
I think this is going to be a really easy
story to sell. It's it's tragic all the way around,
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but I think it's hard not to understand how this
dad feels because I think I would feel the exact
same way. Now, when we get back, I've got a
couple of stories. I have a question for you guys,
and oh dang, oh, I have so much Oh okay,
the next the next two segments are going to be
everything on the blog. And there's so much good stuff
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on the blog. It's going to be a mad house
stick around. We will be right back after this on KOA. Now,
I've got to play this for you guys, but I
really want you to go to the blog at mandy'sblog
dot com and look at the video. So Stephen Colbert
is interviewing CNN's Caitlin Collins and they're talking about you know,
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Trump and whatever, and then this happened.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I want you to listen to when.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Donald Colbert, Stephen Colbert points out what he thinks about
CNN's coverage and then listen to how the audience, which
we know is a left leaning audience, how the audience responds.
Trump has kind of been thrown on his heels by this,
and he's not really sure how to go after Vice
President Harris.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
He knew his attack lines on President Biden. He really
has struggled.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
With how to go after someone who's twenty years younger
than him, who is a different gender, a different right.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
It's kind of been this moment where he has not
been able to coal us around a single attack line.
I know you guys are objective over there that you
just report the news as it is. Oh, I know
a CNN.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Makes it, and I supposed to be a lib live
I wasn't supposed to be, but I guess it is.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Now what you can't see without the video.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Stephen Colbert is visibly like surprised that the audience laughed
at that, and I wasn't. And you guys, these are
like left wing people. Are you going to go and
stand in line to be on you see Late Night
with Stephen Colbert?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm not at all. So that was absolutely fantastic. It's
on the blog You really need to see his face.
He's genuinely shocked. It just goes to show you how the.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
People in Hollywood and the people in the media view.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
What they do versus how the rest of the country
sees it.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Isn't it amazing? I found it amazing anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So the first part of the death of the Gajanuary
sixth prosecutions happened a few weeks ago when the Supreme
Court ruled that the charge of obstruction of an official
preceding doesn't apply to this protest. That was a charge
that had been levied against many people. Scotis Blog had
this to say. The Supreme Court on Friday threw out
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the charges against a former Pennsylvania police officer who entered
the US Capitol during the January sixth, twenty twenty one
attacks by a vote of.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Six to three.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
The justices ruled that the law that Joseph Fisher was
charged with violating, which bars obstruction of an official preceding,
only applies to evidence tamperings such as destruction of records
or documents in official proceedings. So that was the first
one where we got the second nail in the coffin
from the fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Fifth Circuit
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just ruled that geofence warrants. Now, after the events of
the day, the federal government, and the Feds went to
i believe Google and tell us based on phone numbers
who was in the area of the capitol, and that's
how they have gotten a lot of the people that
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they've been prosecuting for the January sixth protests. Now, if
that's the only thing that sent them to someone, right,
just say someone went to the protests, maybe they walked
right up to the doors of the Capitol. They didn't
even walk in, They turned around, decided it was a
bad idea and went home. Those people, some of them,
are being caught up in this geo fence, and the
Fourth Circuit just ruled that it was a violation of
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the Fourth Amendment. And this is going to affect a
lot of cases.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'm wondering if this will affect the case of the
woman in Fountain.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
How did they know she was there? Although she's on video,
so maybe that's how they back it up. But if
they couldn't find her from the video initially, I mean,
these are really really big deals. These rulings are changing
the nature of these prosecutions, and that's not a thing
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speaking of prosecutions. Funny story, you guys, and I know
you're going to be shocked, so get ready put on
your shocked face. The New York Times has a story
out right now, and I'm just gonna read the headline
for you. Hunter Biden sought State Department help for Ukrainian company.
After President Biden dropped his reelection bid, his administration released
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showing that while he was vice president, his son's solicited
US government assistance.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But let me just read you from the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Hunter Biden sought assistance from the US government for a
potentially lucrative energy project in Italy while his father was
Vice president, according to newly released records and interviews. The records,
which the Biden administration had withheld for years, indicate that
Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the US
Ambassador to Italy in twenty sixteen seeking assistance for the
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Ukrainian gas company Barisma, where he was board member. Embassy
officials appear to have been uneasy with the request from
the son of the sitting Vice president on behalf of
a foreign company. A Commerce Department official based in the
US Embassy in Rome, who was tasked with responding, said,
I want to be careful about promising too much.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
This is a Ukrainian company and purely to protect ourselves, US.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Governments should not be actively advocating with the government of
Italy without the company going through the DOC Advocacy Center.
Those acronyms refer to the United States government and a
Department of Commerce program that supports American companies that seek
business with foreign governments. Abbi Lowell, a lawyer from mister Biden,
said his client asked various people, including the US Ambassador
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to Italy at the time, John Phillips, whether they can
arrange an introduction between Barisma and the president of the
Tuscany region of Italy, where Barisma was pursuing a geothermal project.
Mister Lowell said no meeting occurred, no project materialized, no
request for anything in the US was ever sought, and
only an introduction in Italy was requested. So it goes
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on from there, and we already know that Hunter Biden
never registered as a lobbyist for a foreign agent foreign
Agent's registration at Farah, which requires people to disclose when
they lobby the US government on behalf of foreign interest.
He has not ever filed that paperwork, but he has
not been charged with doing that either.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And then the New.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
York Times lets us know that, Hey, you know what,
this has nothing to do with the fact that Joe
Biden dropped out of the race. It just happened that
the information was released, you know, at the same time.
And so yeah, that's, you know, really no big deal.
This is what it says. And I guess I'm supposed
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to think this is serious. A State Department spokeswoman suggested
that the timing was coincidental, noting that the Department had
released batches of documents in each of the last three
months before the tranch revealing mister Biden's outreach to the
US Embassy in Rome. Yeah, okay, and then they're like, oh, yeah,
the State Department said we were going to release these anyway.
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Does anybody believe that the State Department would have released
these records if Joe Biden was in a hotly contested
campaign with Donald Trump this close to the election? Does
anybody believe that anyone, anyone, anyone, This person said, Mandy,
you think it was okay for anybody to break into
the Capitol.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
They should all be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
To be clear, there were people that were literally invited
into the Capitol by security. There's video of security guards
basically like tipping their hat, like, hey, you guys, go ahead.
I mean, I think what happened was terrible. I just
want to say that. I think it's absolutely terrible. I
think it's embarrassing. I think it's a stain on our
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country that that went down. But there are a lot
of people that were involved in that that were not
trying to kill anyone, burn anything down, didn't put their
feet up on Nancy Pelos's desk. They just followed a
crowd into the Capitol.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Was it a good choice? No, it wasn't. But do
I think they should go to jail?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No? If they did no damage, if they walked in
and walked out, I've got, you.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Know, pay a fine, move on.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
But please, for the love of God, if we're gonna
do that, can we do it evenly on both sides
of the aisles?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Please?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Just you know, that would be lovely because the last
I heard, we were actually paying people who tried to
burn down cities for their injuries they sustained when someone
tried to stop them from burning down a city. So yeah,
things are a little whack of noodle right now, that's
for sure. But that story is uh in the New
York Times now, so I guess Hunter's fair game. It's anybody,
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Grant if you ever wanted to go to a burning
Man never see, it's never been appealing for me either.
It just hadn't. And it might be kind of well,
maybe it's headed towards like cringe.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
We'll explain that after we take a quick time out here.
So burning Man is one of those things that a
certain demographic, and that demographic for a long time was
people who work in tech and like to do drugs,
Like Grant, have you heard anything different about that?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
But that's pretty much what burning Man was.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
That's all I've ever heard about it.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, because all of my friends in Seattle that work
in tech all went to burning Man to do drugs.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I'm just you know, But over the last few years
it's kind of become a CNB scene situation, and super
wealthy people showed up with these mac Daddy setups in
the middle of the desert. And so last year there
was all this rain and there was mud everywhere and
a couple of years ago is like blazing hot. And
this year is the first year since twenty eleven that
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is not sold out, so there are tickets available. You
have to wonder it's like how long do you go
before people just tire of what you're doing. I always
think of like music festivals, you know, lollapaloozas started back
in the nineties, and then it went away, and then
it came back, and I don't know if it came
back again, but people kind of get over it, and
you have to figure out a way to come up
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with the next thing that the next generation of techs,
techies who like did you drugs, are gonna want to do,
and I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Burning man never appealed to me. Ever. I don't like sand.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Why would you go someplace in the sand where you
don't have.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
A shower grant? Why would you do that?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah, and after the debacle last year, I can see
why they're not sold out this year.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, it was a huge They got massive monsoon rains
in the desert.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It washed every road out. It was a really it
was a disastrous situation.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
But also I do think that that the economy has
played into this because tickets started five hundred and seventy
five bucks. That's a lot of money right now. So Grant,
let me ask you this. Have you is there anything
you are we're going because of inflation? Like, is there
anything you've cut out?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Budget nice meals at restaurants my favorite thing to do
in the world. Yeah, we don't go very often anymore.
It has to be a real special occasion because we
just can't afford it anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
That sucks. I mean, that just sucks, mostly because you've
had the taste, right, you know what.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It sucks exactly because when I was ready, See that's
that's what I was gonna say. When I was your age,
I was really young and stupid still, and we never
went to fancy restaurants.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
We just didn't. We we went to bar.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
We went to like dirty dive bars where you know,
they had dollar fifty Budweisers. So I didn't have that
taste of delight.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Right. It's like the first time you write it first
class in an airplane.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You're like, I am never going back to that, but
then you do because you look at the prices for
first class and you're like, oh, nope, that's not a thing.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
This happens.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I've never had that experience, so I will.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You will someday, probably the first time on someone else's time.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Well, I know I'm not paying for it.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Never on your own.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
And that's one of the reasons that I do the
points in miles thing now, because that's the only way
I can really afford business class in first classes to
like cash in points and miles and do it that way,
and it's worth it that way psychologically, it makes sense
for me psychologically. A lot of you are weighing in
on all kinds of stuff. Mandy Biden is exposing all
the families dirty laundry now headed up to pardons for everything.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Wow, I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I did think about this text though, Mandy, this stuff
is coming out to make sure Joe behaves at the convention.
There is some scuttle butt that India speech in the
DNC next week, which we will be bringing to you
live Monday through Thursday. Very excited about that. Well, Thursday
we have a very short show because of baseball, but
most of the time we'll be bringing you from the DNC,
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and we've actually lined up some really prominent Democrats. Michael
Bennett is coming on the show. John Hickenlooper's coming on
the show. We're working on some other names that you
may have heard of, and it's my intention to bring
you the Democratic National Convention so you can hear from
those people themselves what they want to accomplish, and you
know it and you can make your own judgments.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
That's the thing that's happening. Funny parents raise happier kids.
If this is true, I have the happiest children ever
because I think I'm extremely funny, extremely funny, and I
have always been the wine to whip out the jokes
with my kids. A new study published in the journal
Plus one reveals that a whopping seventy one point eight
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percent of participants agreed that humor can be an effective
parenting tool. However, it's not just about cracking jokes or
pulling silly faces. The research suggests that parental humor could
be a secret ingredient in fostering cognitive flexibility, relieving stress,
and promoting creative problem solving and resilience in both parents
and children. And I've said it before on this show.
(31:57):
At our house, when I was growing up, it was
either laugh or and we always chose laugh. Laugh is
so much happier, so much better. Even if things are
in the crapper, If you can still laugh about any
of it, then you're doing pretty darn good now. Also
on the blog today, I have more stories that I
did not get to.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh, I did a pretty good job.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Actually, no, I'm looking at it, but you have plenty
of time to go look at the blog at Mandy's
blog dot com because we're going to turn the station
over here in just a moment to the Rockies. I
wanted to ask a question of the audience earlier, and
I cannot, for the life of me remember what it is.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Getting older is challenging, very challenging.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
One more story on the blog today.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
So it is the top ten causes of death in
the United States.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And you guys, so many of these.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Are preventable with lifestyle changes, so many of them number ten.
This one actually kind of surprised me. Chronic liver disease
and sorrhosis. That is the disease you get from drinking
too much. Some people get liver disease and it has
nothing to do with alcohol, to be clear, But sorosis
is primarily because they have non alcoholic crrosis as well,
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So that's a lot of those are preventable. Diabetes, A
lot of this is preventable Alzheimer's disease, which they now
believe is attached to inflammation, which comes from eating a
diet which gets everything inflamed. That's number seven. Chronic lower
respiratory disease. A lot of this comes from smoking, not all,
but a good chunk.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Heart disease.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
COVID nineteen is now, wait a minute, supposed to be
number ten. Now, oh, this is last year's numbers on
accidents unintentional injuries. That includes drug overdoses, car accidents and falls.
Crazy cancer number two, Heart disease number one. Do what
you can, guys, gals, get those checkups, go to the doctor.
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I know it's not fun, but you can do it.
You can do it now. We'll be back tomorrow with
a big hole show. But right now we're going to
turn things over to Jack and Jerry and Jesse, and
I hope you enjoy the Rockies game. If I go
into a way the blog and read about Japan and Korea,
we'll be back tomorrow
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a one hour edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next big old Let's see
here fifty five minutes, roughly joined today by Grant.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So happy to have you back. Grant.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm glad to be here. That's the first time I've
heard your updated theme song.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Wait, I got to.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Send you the email with all of the other theme
songs that ross that are our engineer at iHeart. He
made a bunch of them with AI, just like that one,
and they are you'll die laughing, Grant. I sat at
my desk and laughed until I cried.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Because they're so funny. There's a skull one. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Anyway, AI's amazing, absolutely amazing. Just real quick, Grant, what's
coming up today on the Taking It for Granted podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Since it is Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Actually, I was just talking to Dragon about this before
I came on with you. I've taken a couple weeks
off of the podcast, trying to work on my time
management a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Ah, time management. Time time is always the boogaboo, isn't
it it is? Do you want me to give you
a real sobering piece of advice before we do the blog. Sure,
at the end of every day, check your usage for
the day, and you will recognize that there's so much
more time in the day, but you spend most of
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it on your phone and not you. I'm not saying you, Grant,
I'm saying you the world.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That is a very sobering exercise to check your screen
usage at the end of every day.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, I haven't recommend, I haven't update me. And some
days I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't. I stared
at this little freaking computer in my pocket all.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Day and Grant, I go back and try and justify
it them, like, well, surely I was looking.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
On stuff of the show.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I mean, I couldn't have just been on crappy Instagram
videos for seven hours. No, I was on crappy Instagram
videos for seven hours. I've been trying to do this
thing where I leave my phone across the room, right
so if something happens or goes off or whatever, I
know it's going there.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
But oh my god, it's like it calls to you.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's crazy, the pull that these little boxes of you know,
distractions have created over us. It's almost it's really lets
you know, how easily people are manipulated. Yeah right, I
mean we are so easily manipulated by algorithms and everything else,
and we know we're being manipulated, and yet we're still manipulated.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And then we open the Instagram or whatever app you're
looking at and you're like, well, I'm bored by all this.
I still had to look at it because I'm addicted
to it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's like crack.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
But I'm telling you, if you're working on time management,
which is some area of my life that I have
always failed miserably, I'm just gonna straight up throw myself
under the bus. And that is a very sobering experience
to just look at your phone use it forces you
to get real about time management, right, So I hope
that helps and doesn't ruin your life.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Let's find the blog. It's easy by going to mandy'sblog
dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for latest posts
and the headline eight fourteen twenty four blog A big
hour show before Baseball. Click on that and here are
the headlines you will find within.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I think to listen miss in office half of American
all with ships and clipments and say that's a prans Flint.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Today in the blog Baseball Eats the Show at one,
something cool just happened with our Korea and Japan trip.
Dave Williams will not go quietly. A serial rapist is
found guilty. Hey, look a triple shooting on the sixteenth
Street Mall. His son's death broke him. Scrolling, will anyone
be convicted? From January sixth? Now that the government has
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been checked again? Scrolling, scrolling, hang on, scrolling. Stephen Colbert
gets a big laugh, scrolling. Oh hey, look, hunter Biden
tried to call on government to help business deals. Funny parents,
raise happier kids? Is burning man over so many of
these causes of death or lifestyle related. The Ukraine offensive
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into Russia has been very successful. They're just making stuff
up in climate science. And now your daily reminder, Graham,
I need you to do me something really quick. I
need you to go to the blog, scroll down and
read or watch the video at the very bottom, and
now you're daily reminder. I just need you to do this.
I need you to do it, Okay, and then come
(04:08):
back and let me know you've watched it. Okay, here
we go. I'm going to talk about some other stuff. Well,
Grant is doing his assignment. There is obviously only an
hour show the Rockies take over at one couple of
things I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Let you know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I mentioned this yesterday when we talked to Bethany from
Cruise and Tour. The way Cruise and Tour and other
travel companies book these trips from people that were then
going to sell. They book blocks of rooms in certain hotels,
they start building the trip over various elements, right, and
the last thing they do is airfare, because airfare can
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only be purchased a certain amount a certain number of
days ahead of the trip, so airfare is always the
lagging thing. Well, they got a huge, really great deal
on airfare to South Korea for our Mandy Connle adventure,
and we were able to pass those savings through to passengers.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And if you've already.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Booked the trip, you are going to get a call
and they're gonna say, hey, we're gonna give you some
money back.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But we've never had this happen. It's just never occurred before.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
They're very very good at sort of guessing the number
for airfare, but they got a really good deal. So
if you like to check it out. You can go
to Mandy Connell trip dot com. It is very very good.
The trip is awesome. I can't wait and I'm super
stoked to go to Japan. I've been reading about Kyoto,
and I didn't know anything about Kyoto. But Kyoto, I think,
(05:30):
is where I'm looking the most forward to going out
of all the places. But just go to Mandyconnell trip
dot com and look there for more, or you can
call Cruise and Tour one eight three eight three thirty one.
So let's talk about some stuff that is on the blog.
And because I only have an hour, Dave Williams, now
we have talked this stuff to death. Grant, did you
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watch it yet? Did you watch the video? Correct your
daily reminder? You did not see that coming down, did you?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I did.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No. It's a song about one of my favorite topics.
Every year at Christmas, for the rest of my life,
I will pull a Christmas tree ornament out of the
Christmas Tree ornament box that says this ornament didn't hang
itself with a photo of Jeffrey Epstein on it. That
joke will never get old? Do you realize this never?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Didn't mean to distract myself with a joke that I
think never gets old. So the Colorado GOP is still
an unmitigated disaster, and it's an unmitigated disaster because the
current chairman. I'm just doing a quick refresh here in
case you've forgotten about this ridiculous soap opera.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You've just joined the show for the first time.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So the current Colorado chairman has been a massive failure.
He used party funds to support his own failed candidacy
and send out mailers against other Republicans that were running
against him.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
He's been shady as hell. He hasn't been raising money.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Fourteen of the eighteen Republicans he and others in the
Colorado GOP leadership endorsed in the primaries law. He's been
a failure at every turn. And when a group of
Republicans got together to follow the bylaws and call a
meeting to talk about deposing him, he ran to a judge,
lied to the judge about what the bylaws say, and
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got to stay. Well, that stay has been lifted after
the judge heard the actual information, and now he's looking
to do it again. He is looking to make a
bylaw amendment that makes it harder to call a special
meeting to remove the Colorado GOP chairman or other party officers.
Now there are two meetings scheduled coming up, one by
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the people trying to oust David Williams. That has been rescheduled,
and that meeting is happening, and that meeting is legitimate.
That meeting has been called according to the current Republican bylaws.
Now David Williams also called a Central co meeting August
thirty first, And everyone who is going to this out
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David Williams meeting needs to go to that Central Committee meeting.
That you have to go.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm begging you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
This is the only hope that the Republican Party in
Colorado has is if the Republican Party Central Committee gets
together and recognizes what an absolute disaster Dave Williams has
been for the party.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
He has shrunk the party, not grown the party.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He has run people that have been actively involved in
Republican politics for literal decades out of the party because
they weren't pure enough.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He sent out a purity test where you had.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
To claim your allegiance to Donald Trump. You had to
claim your allegiance I guess to Dave Williams, it's absurd.
The way he's trying to run this party and all
he's doing is running into the ground.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
So please stop the grift.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Please, if you're in the Central Committee, I need you
to call everybody else that you know in.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
The Central Committee. This has to end.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
This is doing nothing to support Republican causes in Colorado
or even good Republican candidates. The candidates who are running
for office right now are doing so completely alone, and
that's coming from the candidate's campaigns themselves. That's been an
absolute nightmare and it needs to end. So please, for
the love of all the Holy if you are in
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the Central Committee, go and vote this guy out.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It is time to.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Move on and maybe maybe create some semblance of a
functioning opposition party to the almost complete and total democratic rule.
In my complete total, I mean veto pro proof majorities
and stuff like that, supermajorities where Republicans don't even have
to show up and they can do whatever they want.
(09:49):
So yeah, it's so necessary. So please, please, please, please,
if you know anyone in the Central Committee, it's time.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's time.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
A change of leadership is not not you know, desired,
it is non negotiable. There has to be new leadership
of the Republican Party anyway, Okay, moving on from that.
So have you guys been following the story of doctor
Stephen Matthews And he is a guy? This is okay.
So this guy is a relatively good looking man. You know,
(10:21):
I like balding men, so he's balding. But he's a
relatively good looking man. He is a cardiologist. He is
probably living a life that.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Many men would dream of.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But instead of living a life as a decent looking
cardiologist who could probably go to any dating app and
get any woman that he wants, well, he did exactly that,
but instead of building a relationship with them, he drugged
eleven of them and then sexually assaulted nine of them
when they were passed out from the drugs.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Like what the blank.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well, he has been found guilty on almost all the
sexual assault brought against him, and he's now facing life
in prison. And this is one of those things where
if he doesn't get life in prison, then I'm gonna
have to say, you just don't value you don't value
women in society enough, because this guy is a predator.
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He purposely lured women back to his house and then
he drugged him and then he raped him I mean,
this guy is a just a horrific evil person and
he's sobbing when he gets found guilty. And all I
could think of was, what are you sobbing over? Are
you sobbing over the fact that you did these things
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and you've been found guilty because you did them, or
you sobbing because you know you're going to prison for
the rest of your life if there's any real justice.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So I don't know. That story has been crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
This story has lifetime movie written all over it, or
maybe an episode of like Law and Order. You know,
they are ripped from the headlines. They're all ripped from
the headlines. So I'm glad he got found guilty. I've
been following that case, and you know, I don't really
talk about crime stories until they're done, because what's the point.
I'm not doing a crime podcast where I want to
walk you through every single second of every single day.
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But once things are done, then I will absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Talk them up.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I got a lot of stuff on the blog and
I have very little time, so it's going to be
a speedy show. This story is the saddest story I
have seen in the longest time.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And I remember when this young man.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Was killed, and I thought to myself, this I can't
even imagine being his dad.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And I'm talking about la Bomba.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Sayers Junior who was killed last year, murdered in the
street and he was trying to protect his sister when
he was shot. She was also shot and he was
murdered and left to die in the streets in five points.
So the part that made that that made me wonder,
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how is this guy going to deal with this is
that his son, Mumba Sayers Sior, has been an anti
violence activist. He runs an organization that is dedicated to
giving kids an option that takes them away from violence, and.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
This was his son that was killed.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, now we know how he reacted because now Lammba
Sayer's senior has been arrested for walking into a birthday
party and allegedly shooting a man named Malcolm Watson in
the head and killing him at a child's birthday party. Now,
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you don't go from being an anti violence advocate to
shooting someone at the head of the birthday party unless
you suffer the kind of trauma that this guy went
through last year with his son. And I'm reading this
and I'm gonna be honest, like, how many of you,
how many of you men out there, some women, how
many of you would they?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You know what if that was my kid, I don't
know that I wouldn't do the same thing. You know.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The culture that he's trying to fix, the culture that
he is trying to remedy, the culture of violence that
takes so many young lives, especially black and brown lives.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This is what he was trying to fix.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
And now it's like he just said, Okay, if this
is what we're gonna do, I'll do it too.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Listen to this about his son's shooting.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Sayers Junior, an open anti violence activist who created Gloves Up,
Guns Down, Get Your Heads Up in the Hood, a
nonprofit organization which guided youth to ditch their guns and
instead use their voices to solve their problems, was allegedly
protecting his sister during the shooting. Suspect Terrell Braxton, twenty four,
was arrested a month after the shooting on suspicion of
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first degree murder and first degree assault, but that case
has been sealed and the Denver District Attorney couldn't not
talk about its disposition. Denver Police Department has announced no
other rests arrests in the year old double homicide. So
obviously this dude cut a deal, don't you think. I mean,
that's what it sounds like to me if the case
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has been sealed and nobody can.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Talk about it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But I bet you this LAMUMBOE. Sayers Senior knows the disposition.
I bet he knows what happened, and he probably feels
like the police just weren't gonna do anything because they'd rather,
you know, get whatever. Did he kill the shooter of
his son, No, he did not. He killed one of
his close associates, So.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I'm guessing he believed there was more of a connection
there than was initially thought.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I'm completely speculating. I'm speculating like this because I have
compassion for this man. I mean, I can't even imagine
your kid gets murdered and then you don't get to know,
you don't get to see justice when the actual murder
has his case sealed and you don't you know either,
you don't know what happened. You're just assuming it's a terrible,
terrible story. And now this man is no longer out
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there trying to stop the violence in the neighborhood because
he became part of it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And now all of these kids, what about all the
kids that utilize his club? What about them? I mean,
this is a tragic story, just tragic. Mandy.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Doctor Matthews was my brother in law's cardiologist. He said
he was extremely arrogant and condescending.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
There you go to the person who said, what did
KBB accomplished when in the seat?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, Kelly Burton Brown didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Use sixty thousand dollars of party funds for her own campaign.
Kelly Burton Brown didn't change the bylaws to endorse in primaries,
something that had never been done in the Republican Party
fourteen out of eighteen, of which those endorsements lost. So
Kelly Burn Brown didn't get things done in the way
I would have liked because it was an incredibly difficult
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political environment. But she didn't actively work to destroy the
party like Dave Williams did.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
So I'm gonna go KBB for the win. Just letting
you know, Mandy.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'd be calling eight point one in this case to
make sure that I don't hit any cables. I get
what you're putting down right there. And I think this
is going to be one of those cases that a
good defense attorney can get a jury to come back
in a way that would be a lot easier, because
I think this is going to be a really easy
story to sell. It's it's tragic all the way around,
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but I think it's hard not to understand how this
dad feels because I think I would feel the exact
same way. Now, when we get back, I've got a
couple of stories. I have a question for you guys,
and oh dang, oh, I have so much Oh okay,
the next the next two segments are going to be
everything on the blog. And there's so much good stuff
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on the blog. It's going to be a mad house
stick around. We will be right back after this on KOA. Now,
I've got to play this for you guys, but I
really want you to go to the blog at mandy'sblog
dot com and look at the video. So Stephen Colbert
is interviewing CNN's Caitlin Collins and they're talking about you know,
(18:22):
Trump and whatever, and then this happened.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I want you to listen to when.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Donald Colbert, Stephen Colbert points out what he thinks about
CNN's coverage and then listen to how the audience, which
we know is a left leaning audience, how the audience responds.
Trump has kind of been thrown on his heels by this,
and he's not really sure how to go after Vice
President Harris.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
He knew his attack lines on President Biden. He really
has struggled.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
With how to go after someone who's twenty years younger
than him, who is a different gender, a different right.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
It's kind of been this moment where he has not
been able to coal us around a single attack line.
I know you guys are objective over there that you
just report the news as it is. Oh, I know
a CNN.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Makes it, and I supposed to be a lib live
I wasn't supposed to be, but I guess it is.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Now what you can't see without the video.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Stephen Colbert is visibly like surprised that the audience laughed
at that, and I wasn't. And you guys, these are
like left wing people. Are you going to go and
stand in line to be on you see Late Night
with Stephen Colbert?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm not at all. So that was absolutely fantastic. It's
on the blog You really need to see his face.
He's genuinely shocked. It just goes to show you how the.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
People in Hollywood and the people in the media view.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
What they do versus how the rest of the country
sees it.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Isn't it amazing? I found it amazing anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So the first part of the death of the Gajanuary
sixth prosecutions happened a few weeks ago when the Supreme
Court ruled that the charge of obstruction of an official
preceding doesn't apply to this protest. That was a charge
that had been levied against many people. Scotis Blog had
this to say. The Supreme Court on Friday threw out
(20:17):
the charges against a former Pennsylvania police officer who entered
the US Capitol during the January sixth, twenty twenty one
attacks by a vote of.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Six to three.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
The justices ruled that the law that Joseph Fisher was
charged with violating, which bars obstruction of an official preceding,
only applies to evidence tamperings such as destruction of records
or documents in official proceedings. So that was the first
one where we got the second nail in the coffin
from the fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Fifth Circuit
(20:47):
just ruled that geofence warrants. Now, after the events of
the day, the federal government, and the Feds went to
i believe Google and tell us based on phone numbers
who was in the area of the capitol, and that's
how they have gotten a lot of the people that
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they've been prosecuting for the January sixth protests. Now, if
that's the only thing that sent them to someone, right,
just say someone went to the protests, maybe they walked
right up to the doors of the Capitol. They didn't
even walk in, They turned around, decided it was a
bad idea and went home. Those people, some of them,
are being caught up in this geo fence, and the
Fourth Circuit just ruled that it was a violation of
(21:29):
the Fourth Amendment. And this is going to affect a
lot of cases.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'm wondering if this will affect the case of the
woman in Fountain.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
How did they know she was there? Although she's on video,
so maybe that's how they back it up. But if
they couldn't find her from the video initially, I mean,
these are really really big deals. These rulings are changing
the nature of these prosecutions, and that's not a thing
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speaking of prosecutions. Funny story, you guys, and I know
you're going to be shocked, so get ready put on
your shocked face. The New York Times has a story
out right now, and I'm just gonna read the headline
for you. Hunter Biden sought State Department help for Ukrainian company.
After President Biden dropped his reelection bid, his administration released
(22:26):
showing that while he was vice president, his son's solicited
US government assistance.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But let me just read you from the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Hunter Biden sought assistance from the US government for a
potentially lucrative energy project in Italy while his father was
Vice president, according to newly released records and interviews. The records,
which the Biden administration had withheld for years, indicate that
Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the US
Ambassador to Italy in twenty sixteen seeking assistance for the
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Ukrainian gas company Barisma, where he was board member. Embassy
officials appear to have been uneasy with the request from
the son of the sitting Vice president on behalf of
a foreign company. A Commerce Department official based in the
US Embassy in Rome, who was tasked with responding, said,
I want to be careful about promising too much.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
This is a Ukrainian company and purely to protect ourselves, US.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Governments should not be actively advocating with the government of
Italy without the company going through the DOC Advocacy Center.
Those acronyms refer to the United States government and a
Department of Commerce program that supports American companies that seek
business with foreign governments. Abbi Lowell, a lawyer from mister Biden,
said his client asked various people, including the US Ambassador
(23:44):
to Italy at the time, John Phillips, whether they can
arrange an introduction between Barisma and the president of the
Tuscany region of Italy, where Barisma was pursuing a geothermal project.
Mister Lowell said no meeting occurred, no project materialized, no
request for anything in the US was ever sought, and
only an introduction in Italy was requested. So it goes
(24:09):
on from there, and we already know that Hunter Biden
never registered as a lobbyist for a foreign agent foreign
Agent's registration at Farah, which requires people to disclose when
they lobby the US government on behalf of foreign interest.
He has not ever filed that paperwork, but he has
not been charged with doing that either.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And then the New.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
York Times lets us know that, Hey, you know what,
this has nothing to do with the fact that Joe
Biden dropped out of the race. It just happened that
the information was released, you know, at the same time.
And so yeah, that's, you know, really no big deal.
This is what it says. And I guess I'm supposed
(24:50):
to think this is serious. A State Department spokeswoman suggested
that the timing was coincidental, noting that the Department had
released batches of documents in each of the last three
months before the tranch revealing mister Biden's outreach to the
US Embassy in Rome. Yeah, okay, and then they're like, oh, yeah,
the State Department said we were going to release these anyway.
(25:12):
Does anybody believe that the State Department would have released
these records if Joe Biden was in a hotly contested
campaign with Donald Trump this close to the election? Does
anybody believe that anyone, anyone, anyone, This person said, Mandy,
you think it was okay for anybody to break into
the Capitol.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
They should all be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
To be clear, there were people that were literally invited
into the Capitol by security. There's video of security guards
basically like tipping their hat, like, hey, you guys, go ahead.
I mean, I think what happened was terrible. I just
want to say that. I think it's absolutely terrible. I
think it's embarrassing. I think it's a stain on our
(25:56):
country that that went down. But there are a lot
of people that were involved in that that were not
trying to kill anyone, burn anything down, didn't put their
feet up on Nancy Pelos's desk. They just followed a
crowd into the Capitol.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Was it a good choice? No, it wasn't. But do
I think they should go to jail?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No? If they did no damage, if they walked in
and walked out, I've got, you.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Know, pay a fine, move on.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
But please, for the love of God, if we're gonna
do that, can we do it evenly on both sides
of the aisles?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Please?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Just you know, that would be lovely because the last
I heard, we were actually paying people who tried to
burn down cities for their injuries they sustained when someone
tried to stop them from burning down a city. So yeah,
things are a little whack of noodle right now, that's
for sure. But that story is uh in the New
York Times now, so I guess Hunter's fair game. It's anybody,
(26:53):
Grant if you ever wanted to go to a burning
Man never see, it's never been appealing for me either.
It just hadn't. And it might be kind of well,
maybe it's headed towards like cringe.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
We'll explain that after we take a quick time out here.
So burning Man is one of those things that a
certain demographic, and that demographic for a long time was
people who work in tech and like to do drugs,
Like Grant, have you heard anything different about that?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
But that's pretty much what burning Man was.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
That's all I've ever heard about it.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, because all of my friends in Seattle that work
in tech all went to burning Man to do drugs.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I'm just you know, But over the last few years
it's kind of become a CNB scene situation, and super
wealthy people showed up with these mac Daddy setups in
the middle of the desert. And so last year there
was all this rain and there was mud everywhere and
a couple of years ago is like blazing hot. And
this year is the first year since twenty eleven that
(27:53):
is not sold out, so there are tickets available. You
have to wonder it's like how long do you go
before people just tire of what you're doing. I always
think of like music festivals, you know, lollapaloozas started back
in the nineties, and then it went away, and then
it came back, and I don't know if it came
back again, but people kind of get over it, and
you have to figure out a way to come up
(28:14):
with the next thing that the next generation of techs,
techies who like did you drugs, are gonna want to do,
and I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Burning man never appealed to me. Ever. I don't like sand.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Why would you go someplace in the sand where you
don't have.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
A shower grant? Why would you do that?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah, and after the debacle last year, I can see
why they're not sold out this year.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, it was a huge They got massive monsoon rains
in the desert.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It washed every road out. It was a really it
was a disastrous situation.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
But also I do think that that the economy has
played into this because tickets started five hundred and seventy
five bucks. That's a lot of money right now. So Grant,
let me ask you this. Have you is there anything
you are we're going because of inflation? Like, is there
anything you've cut out?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Budget nice meals at restaurants my favorite thing to do
in the world. Yeah, we don't go very often anymore.
It has to be a real special occasion because we
just can't afford it anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
That sucks. I mean, that just sucks, mostly because you've
had the taste, right, you know what.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It sucks exactly because when I was ready, See that's
that's what I was gonna say. When I was your age,
I was really young and stupid still, and we never
went to fancy restaurants.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
We just didn't. We we went to bar.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
We went to like dirty dive bars where you know,
they had dollar fifty Budweisers. So I didn't have that
taste of delight.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Right. It's like the first time you write it first
class in an airplane.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You're like, I am never going back to that, but
then you do because you look at the prices for
first class and you're like, oh, nope, that's not a thing.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
This happens.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I've never had that experience, so I will.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You will someday, probably the first time on someone else's time.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Well, I know I'm not paying for it.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Never on your own.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
And that's one of the reasons that I do the
points in miles thing now, because that's the only way
I can really afford business class in first classes to
like cash in points and miles and do it that way,
and it's worth it that way psychologically, it makes sense
for me psychologically. A lot of you are weighing in
on all kinds of stuff. Mandy Biden is exposing all
the families dirty laundry now headed up to pardons for everything.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Wow, I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I did think about this text though, Mandy, this stuff
is coming out to make sure Joe behaves at the convention.
There is some scuttle butt that India speech in the
DNC next week, which we will be bringing to you
live Monday through Thursday. Very excited about that. Well, Thursday
we have a very short show because of baseball, but
most of the time we'll be bringing you from the DNC,
(30:49):
and we've actually lined up some really prominent Democrats. Michael
Bennett is coming on the show. John Hickenlooper's coming on
the show. We're working on some other names that you
may have heard of, and it's my intention to bring
you the Democratic National Convention so you can hear from
those people themselves what they want to accomplish, and you
know it and you can make your own judgments.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
That's the thing that's happening. Funny parents raise happier kids.
If this is true, I have the happiest children ever
because I think I'm extremely funny, extremely funny, and I
have always been the wine to whip out the jokes
with my kids. A new study published in the journal
Plus one reveals that a whopping seventy one point eight
(31:34):
percent of participants agreed that humor can be an effective
parenting tool. However, it's not just about cracking jokes or
pulling silly faces. The research suggests that parental humor could
be a secret ingredient in fostering cognitive flexibility, relieving stress,
and promoting creative problem solving and resilience in both parents
and children. And I've said it before on this show.
(31:57):
At our house, when I was growing up, it was
either laugh or and we always chose laugh. Laugh is
so much happier, so much better. Even if things are
in the crapper, If you can still laugh about any
of it, then you're doing pretty darn good now. Also
on the blog today, I have more stories that I
did not get to.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh, I did a pretty good job.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Actually, no, I'm looking at it, but you have plenty
of time to go look at the blog at Mandy's
blog dot com because we're going to turn the station
over here in just a moment to the Rockies. I
wanted to ask a question of the audience earlier, and
I cannot, for the life of me remember what it is.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Getting older is challenging, very challenging.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
One more story on the blog today.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
So it is the top ten causes of death in
the United States.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And you guys, so many of these.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Are preventable with lifestyle changes, so many of them number ten.
This one actually kind of surprised me. Chronic liver disease
and sorrhosis. That is the disease you get from drinking
too much. Some people get liver disease and it has
nothing to do with alcohol, to be clear, But sorosis
is primarily because they have non alcoholic crrosis as well,
(33:06):
So that's a lot of those are preventable. Diabetes, A
lot of this is preventable Alzheimer's disease, which they now
believe is attached to inflammation, which comes from eating a
diet which gets everything inflamed. That's number seven. Chronic lower
respiratory disease. A lot of this comes from smoking, not all,
but a good chunk.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Heart disease.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
COVID nineteen is now, wait a minute, supposed to be
number ten. Now, oh, this is last year's numbers on
accidents unintentional injuries. That includes drug overdoses, car accidents and falls.
Crazy cancer number two, Heart disease number one. Do what
you can, guys, gals, get those checkups, go to the doctor.
(33:47):
I know it's not fun, but you can do it.
You can do it now. We'll be back tomorrow with
a big hole show. But right now we're going to
turn things over to Jack and Jerry and Jesse, and
I hope you enjoy the Rockies game. If I go
into a way the blog and read about Japan and Korea,
we'll be back tomorrow
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