08-16-24 FULL SHOW - The State of Local Breweries, The Wine Yogi, and Property Tax

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
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Speaker 5 (00:30):
Now whoo, I am your host for the next three hours,
Mandy Connell. I have Michael coover here with me right
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it back from training camp, and we will take you
through the three o'clock, no, the two o'clock hour to
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to KOA Sports. Let's jump right into the blog because

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I got a lot of guests today and we're having
like a serious guest and then an interesting guest around
something fun and then the wine Yoki. It's always fun,
so it's going to be that kind of fun day.
And the wine Yogi answered the question I got from
a listener and dang it, should have found that email
and I didn't, dang it.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
So listener emailed me a couple.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
Of weeks ago and said, Mandy, please, I live in
a rural area where there aren't any wine stores. I
have to buy my wine at the grocery store. Where
How do I choose wine at the grocery store? We're
going to talk about that today. She did a super
helpful blog post on it, so we're going to do
that a little bit later. Find the blog by going
to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for

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the headline that says eight sixteen twenty four blog the
State of Local Breweries. Wait, let me try this. Oh
you're gonna hit the music there?

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Uh coo.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
I go to mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline
that says eight sixteen twenty four blog the State of
Local Breweries, the wine Yogi and property tax. Hit that
headline and here are the headlines you will find with it.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
I think it's listening office half of American all with
ships and clipments at say that's got to press.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Class today on the blog, will advance Colorado pull their
property tax ballot measures? Scrolling the wine Yogi has some
grocery store wine tips. We seem to have hit peak brewery.
Why should this alleged murderer be given deference? When will
Kamala be asked about Joe's decline campaigns versus the media.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
DIA is number.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
Four on a long list. The Harris economic plan is
based solely on polling. Coffee will kill you again. If
Trump sticks to this message, he can define Kamala. Credit
card lounges are sprouting up everywhere now. Chicago cops say
they're ready for protests. The cat Hunting Man would be
very costly tgif everybody Disney is trying to fix their

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price problem. Five phrases to get ahead at work. Watch
Chuck and Me in our Japan video. This celebrity doesn't
understand how to do it. Want to win a pair
of tickets to this weekend's game. The Clippers' new home
is pretty fly. No gen z, you don't need to
get cute on a resume. The San Antonio Zoo weighs
in on rayguns perform. Those are the headlines on the

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blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And I gotta say, after
enjoying the mockery of the woman who has now known
forever as Reygun, the Australian woman who came to the
Olympic stage for the debut of a sport, that we
had not had in the Olympics before and engaged in

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such a ridiculous level of tomfoolery that she has become
well a touchstone for us all who hasn't who hasn't
ever seen something and gone, I can do that. Well,
apparently she thought that about the Olympics. And now the
San Antonio Zoo has come in with the latest and

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they have a have a kangaroo exhibit at the San
Antonio Zoo, so you can just imagine the mashup that
they've created. But I'm I'm so close to feeling sorry
for this woman, and then I stop and think to
myself self, this woman has to be an incredible narcissist
to believe that she could perform at an Olympic level,

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even though we didn't really know what an Olympic level was.
But seriously, haven't you seen any music videos? They do
it better in those. So I start to feel like, dang,
it's just getting It's gonna be a lot a lot
of pile on here. And then I think to myself, Nah,
nobody put a gun to her head and made her
do that. It's kind of like if I had whiffed
my first pitch, which I did not. If I'd whiffed

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my first pitch, I would have perhaps been an internet
meme or whatever. But I chose to that. So it's
kind of like, Okay, you put yourself in that situation.
I would have to just man up and take whatever
came and just deal with it. And I kind of
feel like that, although now she's like, Okay, it's enough,
well get off the internet. If it was me, i'd
just be off the Internet. And actually, if it was me,

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I would already be selling some sort of T shirt
to commemorate the disaster, whatever it was. If I were her,
I would already be selling an entire line of T
shirts of her doing that little kangaroo dance. And if
you haven't seen it, you've got to see.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
It, people, you must.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
It's the most perfect example of it's so bad it's
good ever in the Olympics ever. So yeah, I like
I said, and San Antonio Zoo well played. That's the
video at the bottom of the blog. Today, Cooper, have
you seen the new Intuit dome or the Clippers are

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gonna play?

Speaker 6 (05:31):
I have not seen it.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
Oh it is it's pretty swanky. I mean it is, Uh,
it's luxurious. Dare I say, luxurious for an arena. So
what are what are the Lakers going to do now
they get out the Clippers playing arena? What is it?

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Intuit dome?

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Intu it doom? You hear me?

Speaker 7 (05:59):
The dome?

Speaker 5 (06:02):
I mean this thing. This thing looks like a spaceship
inside and out. It is spectacular. This is the new
standard by which all other arenas will be judged. And
really looking at it right now, I'm like, mmmm, Pepsi Center.
It's been nice knowing you, ball arena, whatever you're called. Now,
it's been nice knowing you cheers because we have a
hockey team and an NBA team, right we should have

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something that nice. But I'm not paying for it, just
letting you know. Cron Key's good luck. Taxpayers should not
be on the hook for any of that. I don't
know if the LA taxpayers paid for this. I'll have
to look that up. But man, it is beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

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And next Olympics is gonna host Olympic basketball, so that'll
be a nice little feather in the cap there for that. No,
that's on the blog as well. You can click on
this link to see an entire thread of pictures about
that stuff. It's really remarkable to me that in my
lifetime we've gone from football stadiums and I'm specifically thinking
of the Orange Bowl. Okay, before they built well, I

(07:11):
don't even know what the Bronco or the Dolphins field
is called now. I cannot remember what it's called now,
but the stadium that's not in Miami. It's actually a
little further north. But they used to play in the
Orange Bowl, which looks like it's made out of like
match sticks are tinker toys. You know. Even the stadiums
that they built thirty years ago, they look completely different

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than you're looking at what the Raiders have in Las Vegas.
Granted it does look like a room buff from the outside,
but the inside is just off the chain.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
It's amazing how much money there are in sports.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
And that's why I'm saying all this to say, when
they come and tell us that we have to have
something better than ball Arena, tell them to pay for
it themselves. When the Walton Pitter group says we've got
to have a new stadium, great, pay for it yourself.
And then you own it, and you own all the
land around it, and you can develop your entertainment district.
You can all Jerry Jones it up.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
This is all about Jerry Jones.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Jerry Jones, I think was the first guy to do that,
wasn't he Vancouver? Do you know the first guy to
build that kind of entertainment district around the stadium.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
That's a good question.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
I'm not sure of. I think he's the first one
where he had ownership of it. Ultimately, entertainment districts often
pop up around stadiums, but I think he was the
first one that set out to create that. And you know,
as bad as he is at football stuff, he's really
good at business stuff. So I just you know, I
see it coming and I was at the Pepsi Center,

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and there's nothing wrong with it.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
But it's not that stadium, not even remotely.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
And when you have a really good team like the Nuggets,
and you have a really good team like the Avs,
you're gonna make the argument. I'm just throwing that out
there now. Coming up at twelve thirty, we have Christy
Burton Brown and y'all, I realized something the other day
because I did it again the other day. I often
call Christy Burton Brown Kelly Burton Brown, and I'll just
explain to you from kindergarten through my high school. I

(09:05):
went to school with a girl named Kelly Burton. And
now when I think of Burton, I immediately think of Kelly.
And I'm just letting you know why I make that mistake.
It's irritating to me because I'm aware of it and I.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Still make it, which is annoying.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
So Christy Burton Brown with Advanced Colorado is going to
come because Advanced Colorado is the reason we're having a
special session. Advanced Colorado managed to get two ballot initiatives
on the ballot that would have allowed us to vote
to lower our property taxes and then control the mechanism
by how they go up in the future. And the
legislature did not like this, and local governments did not

(09:42):
like this, and they all panicked and said, okay, what
do we have to do. And Advanced Colorado said, look,
you do these things and we will pull our ballot initiatives.
We're going to go over those things and talk about
why this is the strategy. Now. I mean, there's really
good reasons for them to play it this way. We
just let you know that right right now, I don't
disagree with this play and uh, so we'll talk to

(10:05):
Christy Burton round about that at twelve thirty. And then
I got a reach out from the guy who owns
flight Co Brewing, and we featured flight Co because they
were supporting the two women who were flying across country
in the Bombshell Race, and Jason Slingsby reached out and said, Hey,

(10:26):
I'd love if you're interested to come on and talk
about the state of the brewing industry in Colorado. Now
I've been watching a lot of brewer breweries clothes. Are
you a beer guy coover? Are you a craft beer
guy at all? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (10:40):
Someone see I am too.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
But I feel like I think we've hit peak Kraft
Beer and it's on the downslide.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
And now local.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
Breweries are struggling because we got so many of them
opening up. Well, flight Co is like, look, okay, we
got to figure something out. They have figured something out,
and they came up with a really cool way to
do two things, give people a place to gather and
then also add to their bottom line, which is it's
very clever. And we're going to talk to him about
that at one and then at two thirty we've got

(11:10):
the wine Yogi coming in, so a listener asked her
to help pick out grocery store wine, and she gave
the best blog post about how to do that doesn't
give you any actual wines, but gives you tips.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
And so that's really.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
What we were looking for. And now we have that,
and she's got a well, she did have a class
coming up this weekend that you could have signed up
for with Colorado Food and Wine, but it's sold out,
so we'll give you a little taste of that. And
hopefully she needs to start an email list so she
can let people know before because by the time she
gets here, it's already you know, it's already out. It's

(11:46):
already sold out because they're so good. So I don't
have this on the blog today because I'm waiting. I'm
waiting to see it's right now. Fox News is on
in the studio. It's on, and I usually don't pay
attention to the televisions, but it's as soon Harris lays
out economic plan for the first time. And two things

(12:09):
have been swirling about, two things, two very important things.
One of them I believe is absolutely going to be
part of her economic plan, and that is that she
says she's going to pass a federal law against price gouging,
and I talked to yesterday about the fact that no
one ever is charged or convicted under these price gouging

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laws and exist all over the place. You know why
because price gouging is often simply the person who is
selling a product passing along the increased hassles of getting
that product, and then passing along costs you. And I
don't know.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
What she thinks is gouging.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Grocery store marchians are one to three percent. Well, if
they make four percent one year, is that gouging? Is it?

Speaker 4 (12:56):
And I mean that seriously?

Speaker 5 (12:58):
Is it so that I know is going to be
in there? And it's really stupid, But it polled well,
it polled well. Let me just say that the polling
on that people like that. It also takes the onus
off her because everything else I've heard is about spend, spend, spend, giveaway, giveaway,

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give away, giveaway. Now, I don't know if this second
thing is going to be part of her economic plan,
but I read on the internet, so take that with
a grain of salt that she was going to offer
a plan to get first time home buyers twenty five
thousand dollars as a down payment. Do you guys have
any idea what that will do to the housing market

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that is already overinflated. Do you have any idea what
that will do to home prices? And here's the worst
part is it will inflate home prices in places where
you should be able to still buy an affordable home.
And there are so many places all over the country
that you can buy an affordable home. So it's like

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they're just there's absolutely they have the economic knowledge, Like
everything they know about economics could fit.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
In the cap of a coke bottle.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
But these are all things that we've been worried about
since the beginning of our republican democracy. At the very beginning,
there were warnings about, you know what, as soon as
people realize they can vote themselves the treasury, we are done.
And every single democracy, every single empire that had a
voting system when died and did the same thing. And

(14:37):
as soon as people found out, oh, I can vote
myself twenty five thousand dollars that I'm gonna do it,
where's my stimmy check?

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Remember that madness.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
We have become a people that deserve to fail, if
that's what we are. And unfortunately I think this kind
of strategy it's gonna work. I was talking to my
mom today. My mom is a full on centrist point
in her life. She used to be more liberal. She's
got more conservatives she gets older, But she says today
she goes, you know, I really like that Tim Walls,

(15:08):
and I was like, yep, he seems like a nice guy.
His policies are a disaster. And that's the problem. Right now.
The Harris Walls ticket is running on a cloud of
vibes and good feeling and hopefulness, and the media is
just going along with it. Oh, they're starting to grumble.
Why hasn't she done an interview? What's going on? Why

(15:30):
isn't it They're starting to grumble, But they're still going
to give her the slobbering, orgasmic press coverage that they
have given her this last twenty days. And I'm getting
I'm getting significantly worried that those two hurdles are going
to be too great for Trump to not mess up.
You know, Nikki Haley came out yesterday or the day

(15:50):
before and said, look, the Trump campaign has got to
stop whining. They got to talk about the economy, They
got to talk about the border. They got to talk
about people's lives, They got to talk about things that matter.
They to try to win those independent voters. They've got
to talk to people in the middle. And Trump comes
out today and he's like, oh, sure, I love Nicki's help,
but you know, I ran my way against her and
I beat the crap out of her. He's not wrong,

(16:11):
but really, what does that accomplish but make Nicki voters,
you know, even more.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
Less likely to vote for him. It's like the ugh uh.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Now, there's some truth in the fact that a you
cannot ask a tiger to change its stripes in the
middle of a campaign, and god knows Donald Trump has
some prominent stripes. But at some point, when you're losing,
at some point, when you are obviously losing so much
ground that there's not enough like October surprises to help

(16:48):
you make up the difference, at some point you've got
to realize you've got to talk to everybody, not just
people at the rallies. I have something on the blog
today that Trump played at a rally right now, Don't
get me wrong, I think his rally should be entertaining,
and if he wants to play clips of Kamala Harris
over and over and over again at a rally. That's fantastic.
But he's already talking to people who are going to
vote for him. That's who's in this conversation when he's

(17:12):
at a rally, and I'm like, why is this not happening?
Why is this not everywhere? Let me play this for
you real quick. I got time.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
It's only a couple of minutes.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Here again, Caraccas and out of all the cities, he
took all of them out and dumped them into the
United States.

Speaker 7 (17:29):
He emptied his prisons into the United States of America.

Speaker 6 (17:33):
Why are we taking this?

Speaker 5 (17:35):
Why do we take this?

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Why?

Speaker 6 (17:37):
So, don't take my word for it.

Speaker 7 (17:39):
Listen, Kamala Harris is a gender straight from her own mouth.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
Would anybody like to see here? Let's do it for
a couple of seconds. Go ahead, Yeah, I am radical.

Speaker 8 (17:49):
We need to get radical about what we are doing
and take it seriously. As president of the United States,
I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to
pass a Rayadu's huge.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
And fracking.

Speaker 8 (18:05):
I'm giving you a tip of back program, and I
support a mandatory buyback program on confiscation.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
I believe it will totally eliminate private insurance.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Let's eliminade all of them. Solicia care, changing the dietary guidizing.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Yes he's you know, the food care good ones. Yes
he has reduced spread needs. But yes, I would ye concerned.

Speaker 9 (18:27):
Your handed government is your government plan would provide coverage
for undocumented immigrants.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
He'll care for legs and then he comes back in
just a second. But this is where you This needs
to play on every channel. This needs to be the
pre role on every single YouTube video until the end
of the election. And none of the crap that they're
talking about her crowds are made up. Who gives a crap?
Only Donald Trump. And that, my friends, is why I

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just will never understand the people who worship at the
altar of Donald Trump special session on property taxes at
the end of this month, and the organization that actually
made that possible and force the issue is Advanced Colorado.
They have multiple ballot initiatives on the ballot this fall
that would have allowed us to vote our property taxes back.

(19:15):
So Christy Burton Brown and Christy I explained this on
the show earlier. So often I call you Kelly Burton
Brown because I went to school kindergarten through twelfth grade
with a Kelly Burton. So whatever I say Burton, I
just think Kelly. So I apologize if you ever hear it.
It's it's just me associating with my childhood, that's all.
And you kind of look like her a little bit too,

(19:35):
So it's just weird. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
That's funny. Actually random story.

Speaker 10 (19:40):
When I was young and I thought I wanted to
be a spy, I was like, the name I was
going to picture myself was Kelly.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
So you're on your I got your spy name. Well,
you're not a spy. You're part of Advanced Colorado, a great,
great policy think tank and organization that is pushing policy
issues in Colorado that are conservative in the sense that
they are physically conservative. And that's what these property tax
initiatives are about. So are the what is this compromise

(20:08):
we're hearing Governor Polis talk about? Tell me about that?

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, well, and I.

Speaker 11 (20:15):
Call it a deal.

Speaker 10 (20:16):
This is a deal that we've you know, got them
back to the table to make for the people of Colorado.
As you know, property taxes have been a huge issue
at a crisis point for years in Colorado, especially with
a thirty percent spike across the state last year, and
so you know, the attempt to solve it in the
regular session didn't go far enough. We brought these ballot

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measures to give people real relief, a cut in the
cap on the property taxes that stop spikes in the
future as well. Well, you know, the Democrats the governor
are very afraid of these measures, and so it's brought
them back to the table where now they're saying, Okay,
if we agree to give people a real cut and
a real cap, will you guys pull these measures off
the ballot. And so that is where where we're at now.

(20:58):
We've reached an agreement for this special session.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
What are the changes between the two? Are the differences
between the two.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Sure?

Speaker 10 (21:06):
And what they are is what it would result in
if they pass this deal is a one point six
billion dollars annual tax cut for the people of Colorado.
We would have put in our initiative a four percent
statewide cap on property taxes. This deal would be a
five point twenty five percent cap on local governments, a
six percent or inflation cap on school districts. That piece,

(21:27):
by itself is actually one of the biggest wins because
the legislation passed Sentu BIL two thirty three in the
regular session completely left school districts uncapped. That's a significant
portion of people's property tax bill.

Speaker 6 (21:40):
There's also a cut in this.

Speaker 10 (21:42):
It would take the property tax rate down from six
point seven percent, which is what is supposed to be
next year, to six point three or six point four percent,
and then also commercial cut it down from twenty nine
to twenty five. On another piece of it, that's ballot
language and basically creates tabor for property taxes. Any local
district wants to opt out of the cap, they have

(22:02):
to have honest ballot language that tells people they would
be repealing a property tax cap.

Speaker 11 (22:08):
That is a huge win.

Speaker 10 (22:09):
That was a piece of our Initiative fifty that would
be in this sledgeslation.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Someone just said, let the voters decide. Why do we
have to cave? Why you strike a deal?

Speaker 10 (22:20):
Sure, I wouldn't define it as caving. I think you know,
we are the group out there that is fighting to
cut in cap property taxes for people. You know, we've
spent our own money doing this, advanced Colorado's money bringing
this before voters. And you can either you know, gamble
all the way to the ballot and say, hey, we
would have a giant win if we win on the ballot.

(22:41):
If we lose, you get nothing. You have to realize that, well,
you know, the yes campaign is going to be spending
millions of dollars, so is the no campaign.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
But you also have the option of.

Speaker 10 (22:51):
A guaranteed win, right, and we're going with the guaranteed
win for people.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
People don't understand the interest groups that would be against this.
The teachers unions are the first ones that we'll be
spending so much money to defeat these ballot initiatives.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
I mean, local governments.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Hate this because small, outlying and rural areas wanted more
flexibility with their their property tax number. This compromise seems
to address that and give them a little more flexibility.
And not to mention you guys, Colorado, this is not
a sure thing in Colorado anymore. It really isn't like
maybe twenty years ago this kind of property tax cut

(23:27):
you'd be no brainer, right, But in today's Colorado and
the right messaging from the other side, this is not
a sure thing at all.

Speaker 10 (23:36):
And mean, I think that's a good point, and people
miss too that the legislature has really missed the ballot language.
Matt messed with it over the last couple of years.
They've required tax cut measures to use a language on
the ballot that kind of tricks people into wondering if
it's really a cut in the cap. Secually, the biggest
issue with measures like this is what people think they
are from the ballot language versus campaigning to tell them
what they really are, right, And so that's another dynamic.

(24:00):
As we often talk in our own echo chambers, we're
listening to people who absolutely know what these are. They
want to cut in cap property taxes. There are many
more voters out there, especially in a presidential year, and
we can guarantee a win with two thirds of what
we want right, guarantee that people are going to have
a cut in the cap protected by taper.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
We're going to go for that now.

Speaker 10 (24:19):
And you know, if the Democrats don't uphold their end
of the deal and they do some funny business during
special session, we will continue to bring these to the
ballot and we'll go that way, and we do think
we can bring the people with us.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
So here's the best part of this. The best part
of this is that you guys through putting some pretty
severe restrictions on the ballot. You absolutely are forcing the
hands of the legislature if they want anything, you know,
if they want to keep which I think are very
reasonable terms in this compromise. They'd be idiots to turn

(24:51):
this down, is what I'm trying to say.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
I mean, this would just be.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Stupid to walk away from this when you have it
all laid out, because the alternative is there could be
some real k in rural areas. There are downsides to
the kind of caps that are on the ballot initiative,
and so I don't know. I think that this person said, Mandy,
why can't we drop residential to six percent? Why did
you guys choose six point four or six point three?
Where did those numbers come from?

Speaker 10 (25:16):
So that's the comment, Well, okay, so yeah, that's the cut.
And I think you could always say why don't you
do more? Why don't you do more? And it's a
great question. We'd love to cut in cap property caps
as much as possible, but with a six point three
to six point four that is a drop.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
From what it was supposed to be.

Speaker 10 (25:33):
It was originally supposed to go up to seven point
one percent next year. With two thirty three is going
to go up to six point seven. So we're taking
it down to six point three or six point four.
And you do when you're when you're negotiating a deal,
you have to agree on something that's going to be workable,
and that is what was reached. The cap is lower though,
and I think that's what people need to know. I

(25:54):
think the cap is the cap is important on local government.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Yeah, it's important. The cap for me is the big deal. Well,
because we're seeing people. I mean, there are older people
that live in my neighborhood that have been in their
homes for thirty five forty years. They're really getting crushed
by property taxes now. I mean it's really hurting them.
And so that for me, when you have a little
more certainty going forward, that is a big part of

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this for me, and I hope it works out because
I'd love for Advanced Colorado to not have to spend
a bunch of money getting this over the finish line,
you know what I'm saying, Like, I would love you
guys to be able to move on to the next thing.
I know you have other ballot initiatives on the ballot
as well. It's like if we can get a better
deal for the taxpayers, get a cap on future increases,
and not have to spend a bunch of money that

(26:38):
you can then direct in another way. I'm all for.

Speaker 10 (26:41):
It, absolutely well. And I think for the first organization
in Colorado to have five measures on a ballot, and
they're all conservative issues and some of them actually bring
in leaders from across the spectrum, like truth and sentencing,
more funny for law enforcement, and the right to school
choice on the ballot. That's all we have. An addition
to property taxes, there's still a lot for voters to

(27:03):
get out and vote for. Be excited about an influent
policy the legislature refuses to do that's very popular with
the people.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
And that school choice bit, we're going to talk about
that because that has to happen. We have to maintain
Colorado's robust school choice programs or we're done. I mean,
we're just done. Christy Burton Brown, I so appreciate you
making time today from Advanced Colorado, and we'll talk again
in the very near future about those other ballot initiatives,
or maybe we can catch up after the special session

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and see how things went.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Thanks Mandy so much.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
All right, thank you that.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
As Christy Burton Brown with Advanced Colorado, we'll be right
back key points about the property tax bill in the
special session. She gives background polling shows one of the
most concerning issues to Colorado voters this year is property taxes.
Property taxes rose by thirty percent on average across the
state last year. My property taxes went up forty percent.
Forty homeowners have expressed they cannot afford another spike. They

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want to guarantee permanent property tax cut and cap. Under
current law, homeowners will see another property tax increase next year.
Advanced Colorado sponsored two ballot measures Initiative fifty and one
OHO eight to permanently cut and cap property taxes lead
up to a special session. The threat of Advanced Colorado's
ballot measures pushed the legislature and Governor Polis to pass

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a bill during the twenty twenty four legislative session that
created nearly one billion dollars in annual property tax savings. However,
at that time, the Democrat legislators refused to take a
deal that would have increased the savings to one point
six billion and cap the full property tax bill. Now
that fifty is on the ballot and one OHO eight
turned in sufficient signatures. The legislature and governor police came

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back to the table and have agreed to pass a
bill that permanently cuts and caps property taxes. The Special
Session Bill the agreement. The legislature will pass and the
governor will sign a bipartisan bill guaranteeing permanent property tax
relief in the form of.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
A cut and a cap.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
These cuts and caps would be locked in by Tabor
and could not be changed without a vote of the people. Specifically,
the bill will cut the effective residential property tax rate
to six point three or six point four percent, depending
on assessment growth. It's currently set to go up to
six point seven percent next year. Cut the commercial property

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tax rate to twenty five percent it's currently a twenty
nine percent install a property tax cap of five point
twenty five percent for local governments and six percent or
inflation growth cap for school districts. The Legislative Session bill
instituted a five point five percent cap for local governments
and had no cap for school districts. The bill also

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requires a key component from Initiative fifty Tabor for property taxes.
If a local government wants to opt out of the
property tax cap. It will have to go to a
vote of the people. Clear and non bias language in
the ballot question is required by the bill. In exchange
for Colorado putting a permanent property tax cut and cap
in law that ensures property taxes do not go up

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again next year and cannot spike again in the future,
Advanced Colorado will take fifty and one oh eight off
the ballot, locking in a guaranteed property tax win for
homeowners and businesses. Somebody said, why don't they just bring
that Gallagher that they'll never bring back Gallagher? This is
as close to Gallagher. Gallagher put limits on how much

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our personal property taxes, what percentage of all taxes could
be paid versus commercial property. And with the growth that
we've had, those numbers got really out of whack, and
instead of fixing the out of whackness, they repealed Gallagher,
which allowed all these massive property tax hypes. But Gallagher
is the genie that's never going back in the bottle. Ever,

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this is as good as you're gonna get. So that
is what is in this bill, and I'm hoping it
passes because you guys, I want you to remember this.
So I don't remember what year, but there was a
year right before the Democrats took total control, So I
want to.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
Say twenty eighteen.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
There was a bunch of ballot initiatives on the ballot,
and there were things like banning fracking within a certain
setback and a property increase or taking table refin I mean,
there were all these things that all got voted down
by the people, and the Democrats turned around in the
next the legislative session and did them all.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Did them all.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
So the notion that somehow the same legislature who has
now robbed us of our table refunds by giving them
to various favored people instead of giving you your money
back without our permission, by the way, which to me
feels like a tax increase. So I don't know why
we can't sue because they're violating taber one hundred percent.

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There's a little caveat in taber that says, oh, this
money can be spent, you know, reasonably. I don't think
given my money to somebody else that didn't earn it
is reasonable. Ever, sometimes I have no control over it.
But in this time, yeah, So for those of you
that signed the Advanced Colorado Signature, you know, ballot and whatever.

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If somebody's salty about this, I want you to think
about it like this.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
It's going to cost millions.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
Of dollars to get this thing over the finish line,
and it may not pass, and then it might pass
and the legislature will find a way to ignore it.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
All of those things could be true.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
I would rather have Advance Colorado not spend that money
on that if they don't have to, because Advance Colorado
is working on multiple fronts to actually rain in Colorado's government,
multiple fronts. So I need you to play the long
game here, right. I need you to kind of open
up your your line of vision and see the entire field.

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It's not just about this. If they can get this done,
if they can force the legislature to do this, that
is a huge win in so many ways that have
nothing to do with these initiatives.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
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Speaker 6 (33:37):
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Speaker 5 (33:38):
The second hour of the show, and I am pleased
a bunch to have the owner of flight Co Brewing
and flight Co something else coming.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Right on the show. Here, Jason Slingsby is joining me
from the brewery.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
It's a very impressive zoom background, Jason, with your big
tanks behind you. It really looks like you know what
you're doing there at the flight Co Brewing.

Speaker 11 (34:00):
Uh oh yeah, sitting here in the brew house right now.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 5 (34:05):
So you how long has flight Co Brewing been open?
And we're talking about the original flight Co Brewing, not
the one that is at the I always call it Stapleton.
I don't know what it's called now, but the old
flight Tower, that's Flight Tower. That's different.

Speaker 11 (34:20):
Yeah, that one's newer. So the original brewery, we've been
here on Tennyson Street, kind of that Berkeley Highlands neighborhood
for the last five years. And that's your little neighborhood brewery.
And then we did we opened the flight coo Tower
across town in the Central Park neighborhood and that is
in the old Stapleton Airport and that's a full bar,
restaurant and events center.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Yeah, and you got a lot of stuff going on there.
But we're talking about the original location. I asked you
off this air off the air, and I'll ask you
a little bit on the air. Have we hit peak
craft beer in the Denver metro Because for years there
it felt like every five minutes somebody was open a brewery. Right,
it was like, Yo, look at brewer, Well, look at brewery.

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And now we seem to have hit the point where
we're now seeing closures kind of. I've seen several closures
as of late, and not just if your smaller brewery,
some pretty well known breweries have decided to call it
a day.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
So what's going on in the industry.

Speaker 11 (35:17):
Yeah, we've we've definitely seen a change, especially even in
the last five years since since we opened. But you're right,
there were multiple breweries opening year after year, and it's
kind of hitting a little bit of a saturation point.
You're starting to see more neutral numbers between openings and closing,
maybe even leading towards more closures.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
And it's changing.

Speaker 11 (35:38):
And yeah, as we were talking about earlier, the the
younger demographics not coming out for the craft beater seeing
quite as hard and it's causing a lot of pivots.
You know, a lot of our changes over at the
FLA like hoteler location is that all ages, family friendly,
full bar, full restaurant, kind of pivoting towards the market needs.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
Well in that neighborhood.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
That's a perfect thing for that neighborhood too, because you've
got a lot of families there in Central Park.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
But you could either adapt or you can die.

Speaker 11 (36:07):
Right.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
That's true of any business, and if you're facing some headwinds,
you got to come up with something else. See I
used headwinds because you're flight Co brewing and you guys
are doing something that I think is actually really cool.
Tell me about flight Co working.

Speaker 11 (36:23):
Yeah, so we're pivoting our morning business model here at
our Tennyson Street location. So we were a coffee shop
and dagle shop for a little while, and that was
a pivot after COVID to kind of the neighborhood and
the market needs, and we're making the switch again. We
noticed most of our regular customers were coming here to work,

(36:44):
so they were posting up for a few hours. They're
having their coffee and they were on zoom calls. They
were you know, working on their computers, taking meetings. And
so yeah, we're pivoting again and we're going to reopen
the morning starting Monday, August nineteenth, and it'll be a
membership based co working space, but it'll have that that

(37:05):
very coffee shop vibe to it.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
What's interesting about this is that before COVID, co working
spaces were very ascendant, right, they were like on the uptick,
and then COVID just smashed them all back to earth
because obviously people were working from home and that hasn't
changed all that much. But that seems like an untapped
market to me. Like if you were working a remote job,
working in your your apartment for the last three or

(37:30):
five years, getting out and going somewhere probably would be enjoyable,
especially a space that's kind of cool too. Now, are
people going to have privacy? How's that going to work
in the in the space?

Speaker 11 (37:42):
Yeah, it's uh, we're working through all the details where
you're talking with having a private room as well, but
it will be a more open field and it's you know,
not going to have that office vibe. It's gonna it's
gonna feel like you went into kind of your own
your own coffee shop, your own little and part of
it is, you know, we want you to be productive.

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We also want to focus on some of the parts
of the social aspects. So as the membership time period
ends for the day, it leads right into a very
natural meeting place and happy hour and continue from there.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
So what times are you guys going to be doing
the coworking, like what times of day?

Speaker 11 (38:24):
Yeah, it'll be from seven thirty in the morning every
day Monday through Friday until two pm. Except Fridays we
will open to the public at eleven am. But you
know it's we're not kicking anyone out from this membership group,
but it will start opening to the public, so you'll
start to have that transition of everyone else coming in
and perfect time again. But your coworkers pig meetings and

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and share the space after that.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
So how much is a membership and how do people
sign up?

Speaker 11 (38:55):
Yeah, so sign up, reach out to our email so
it'll be info at flight co dot beer, f l
y t Eco dot beer, and or jump on our
website and shoot an email through there. But yeah, we're
looking at membership prices is you know, be cheaper than
a cup of coffee each day. We're starting around one
hundred and ninety nine dollars and it gets you access

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to the space and then it gets you member discounts
for all of our beer list, and we got a
couple of coffee options and those are good seven days
a week, So if you come in on the weekend
with your friends, you're getting those member discounts.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
That's very cool.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
I put a link to the website flightcobeer dot com
and you can just go to the I want to
say you have like a welcome button that's got your
contact information at the bottom and you can email and
find out more about this.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
I hope you are very.

Speaker 5 (39:46):
Successful with this because I like people who see a
problem and look for a creative solution, and that's what
this is. Because after the ascendency of co working spaces
that all got crushed during COVID, now it's a great
opportunity to have a cool place to work.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
Because I'm going to tell you a little secret. The
one time in.

Speaker 5 (40:03):
The last three months that I have tried to work,
like you know, on my laptop away from my home
or my office, I had to go to three different
places to find space to sit down with my computer
because everyone is doing it.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
So this is a great idea and I hope it
works for you.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (40:23):
Yeah, we're excited, and you know, it gets you out
of your house, you can be productive, you're around some
other people. But it's it's going to be a limited membership.
We're going to we're going to cap it so it's
not too crazy. And then and it keeps you in
your neighborhood, right, so you're not We're especially targeting the
people around here who have been coming in and want
to continue coming using our space.

Speaker 5 (40:43):
Excellent Jason Slingsby, the owner of Like Co Brewing. You
can check it all out on the blog today. Thank
you so much for making time for me today.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Jason, Oh, thank you appreciate being on all right.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
I have a good one. That's a great idea, great
idea because I watched do you ever do you read
Western Westward? I mean, do you ever look at it?
I look at it specifically because they cover restaurant openings
and closings really well. They cover the restaurant scene very well.
Westwood does a great job with that. And lately I
feel like every week there's some kind of brewery, and

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a lot of them have you never heard of? So
they may just be a little storefronts and I'm not
going to pretend like I'm some kind of craft beer
guru because I'm not.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
I mean, I love beer, but the craft beer.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
Scene anytime you take something that is as unpretentious as beer,
And is there anything more democratizing.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
Than sharing a beer together?

Speaker 5 (41:36):
Right, Like, let's go have a beer that essentially says,
let's be friends, we're equals, let's be pals, let's have
a beer. And Yet I cannot tell you, since I've
been in Colorado how many times I've gone and they
have like, Oh, we've got our we've got our seepy
happy ipa, we've got our less happy I pa, we've

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got this ipa, this ipa. Oh and if you don't
like that, we've got sours, y'all? Can we just make
beer that tastes like beer?

Speaker 11 (42:03):
Is that?

Speaker 5 (42:05):
Is that too much of a problem? And I realize
that this makes me sound old, and I don't care.
I am old inside where it counts.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Mandy, Pivot, Pivot, Pivot.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Flight Crow yep. As a matter of fact, that should
be in their commercials if they do commercials. I don't
know if they do commercials. No idea, Mandy. When I
was a teen, my parents were those kind of people,
look for a problem, try and solve it. They threw
me out. Yeah, I'm hoping that's a joke. It's funny
unless it's true, in which case it is like aw dude,

(42:40):
so sorry this Texter. You can always text our Common
Spirit Health text line at five sixty six nine.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
Oh, I was in a quick trip. I love the QT.
I like the QT better than BUCkies.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
I'm just letting you know. I was in a quick
trip this week and noticed that Medello has their own door.
From top to bottom, all the liquor stores pretty much
have all section Midello is the number one sewing beer
in the United States of America. It has displaced Bush
bud Light, which is never going to come back to
where it was. And once you get that market share,
oh yeah, that's what people want. I love Medello, by

(43:12):
the way, It's often my beer of choice if I
go to the grocery store. Although now I'm just I
was talking to my mom on the way to work
today and I mentioned this on the show before. But
as I've gotten older, like alcohol can't do it, just
can't do it anymore. And I'm sad by this. I'm

(43:33):
said in a different kind of way than I was
when the doctor told me that my orthopedist in Louisville.
Before I got my knees fixed at Regen Revolution, the
orthopedis said, yeah, you can never really wear heels again.
People with knees like yours, you don't need to wear heels,
And I was like what now. Don't get me wrong,
wearing heels sucks. It hurts. And I have so much

(43:54):
admiration for little, tiny women who wear giant, sky high
heels every day so they're a little bit taller. They
never complain. I thank God every day that I'm tall,
So I never felt that pressure because wearing heels sucks.
But when somebody looks at you and says, I'm sorry,
your knees are too jacked up to wear heels, and
you're like, wow, that's a whole chapter of my life

(44:14):
that's over. And I'm there with Booze. I'm at the
point now where it's like it's so not worth it.
I am gonna have wine today with the win yogi,
But then I don't sleep for two days. But it'll
be fine. You can sleep when I'm dead. It's fine.
And that's how I have to look at it. It
has to be a purposeful choice where the negative consequences
are known, and then I'm just gonna have to take
it just okay, there you go, there you go. Now,

(44:38):
I do have a bunch of stuff on the blog
that I want to get to you today. This is
really interesting. Let me do a little political stuff here.
Obviously I didn't want to do a whole bunch of
political stuff because I have a bunch of cool stuff
that has nothing to do with politics on the blog.
But listen to this poll. A vast majority, This is
from the New York Post, A vast majority of Americans

(44:58):
believe Vice President Kamala he Harris was aware of President
Biden's mental decline before he dropped out of the race
last month. Seventy three percent of voters phil Harris knew
about the eighty one year old president's fading.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
Acuity for the last couple of years.

Speaker 5 (45:14):
Only twenty one percent said the fifty nine year old
Vice president was in the dark about his diminished faculties.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
Now, let me ask you this. Kamala is presenting herself
as ready to go.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
She's been Joe Biden's right hand woman. She is ready
to go, ready to lead, ready to be president. But
if she didn't know that, he was absolutely addled as
we've now now the leaks are coming out left and right, right.
I mean, everybody's like, oh yeah, everybody knew that, and
we're you guys. The Democratic Party has just moved on

(45:49):
with breathtaking speed.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
It was like, oh yeah, he's so over.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
What can the rest of us ask, why did you
elevate this guy in the first place and why did
you keep it from us that he was this bad?
That question has been left in the dust, unless, of course,
you're Kamala Harris, because you can't have it both ways.
You either knew about it and actively work to hide
it from the American people, or you didn't know about
it because you're so disconnected from the presidency that you

(46:15):
are not ready to go day one and you cannot
sell yourself on that level of experience.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
But we don't have to worry about that question ever.

Speaker 5 (46:23):
Being asked that let's go out for many places at
the beginning of October, I think that they are going
to only sit her for friendly interviews, maybe one, maybe two.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
Do you know what they're releasing now?

Speaker 5 (46:37):
The campaign has been releasing videos of her and Tim
Walls having folksy conversations about stuff.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Tim Walls he's not.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
A spicy guy. He wants us to know that black
Pepper's the number one spice in Minnesota. Yeah, other hard
hitting information. They're literally talking to themselves, filming it and
putting it on the internet. It's beyond ridiculous, beyond ridiculous.
If you heard the beginning of the show, Trump played
a video at one of his rallies that needs to

(47:07):
be before every pre role on YouTube. It needs to
be saturating the market. And it's just Kamala Harris saying
the things she believes in. She believes in banning fracking,
she believes in open borders. She believes in mandatory buybacks,
which is also gun confiscation.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
She believes in defunding the police.

Speaker 5 (47:26):
She believes in all that was just twenty twenty and
now her campaign says, oh no, no, no, no, no,
she doesn't believe in any of those things. Okay, great,
then give me an interview where we can say, tell
me the evolution, Tell me your evolution on this issue.
What changed your mind? Why do you go from banning
fracking to supporting fracking. Why do you go from defunding
the police to supporting police? Where do you go tell

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us about these positions, no one's ever going to ask her.
The best hope that Trump campaign can do is to
saturate the market and basically seed reasonable doubt because the
vast majority of Kamala voters know nothing about her policy positions,
because she hasn't put any out tonight. I guess is
the big economic plan, the economic plan that may include

(48:13):
twenty five thousand dollars for new homeowners, which would absolutely
I would love it. I already own a house. It
would drive up home values immediately twenty five thousand dollars each.
It would also help a lot of people who can't
afford to own a home perhaps buy a home. Now,

(48:33):
there's two different things to play here. Some people can
afford to buy a home but not own it, meaning
they had enough money to get the down payment to
get into a house. But if anything catastrophic happens, they
need a new roof that isn't covered by insurance, they
get a leak in their basement, something happens some major repair,
they can't pay for it.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
And those people can't afford to own a home.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
There's cost of ownership that are signing unificant depending on
what kind of house you buy. Then there are people
who can buy house and afford to own it. And
if you're waiting for twenty five thousand dollars from the government,
and you guys, in some markets right now, twenty five
thousand dollars is way more than you need for a
down payment for a home. There are so many places
where you can buy a home for one hundred and

(49:19):
fifty thousand, two hundred thousand dollars. None of them are
here in Colorado. But it's like, man. The other thing
is she's going to pass the law that will never
be enforced, just to make it sound like she did
something about inflation. She wants a federal law against price gouging.
What what's happening? Her entire economic policy seems to be

(49:41):
based on polling data. Ugh, hey yeah, yeay, her plan.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
Just listen to Harris.

Speaker 5 (49:50):
My immediate thought is a saying in my family, and
I want a pony too. As a matter of fact,
yesterday I tweeted this out. Text her. This is what
I texted out. I retweeted one of her Let me
see here, let me find it really quickly. Uh Selena
Wang TV. Harris will propose up to twenty five thousand

(50:11):
dollars in down payment support for first time homeowners with
more generous support for first generation homeowners, according to campaign officials,
she'll announce tomorrow in North Carolina, along with her plan
to ban corporate price gouging on groceries.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
I quote tweeted that by saying, you.

Speaker 5 (50:27):
Get a car, and you get a car, and you
get a car next she's gonna throw in a mule.
All she's doing is using taxpayer dollars to buy votes.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
All she's doing.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
And honestly, when I see this, like Donald Trump cannot
say that he has any kind of deficit and debt hawk,
but what I see with her promises the things that
she is promising to give away, we're going to speed
our way into solvency even faster. And part of me,

(50:58):
even though it's gonna be horrible happens, I mean great depression,
like horrible, and when we lose our standing in the world,
we'll never get it back like we have it now.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Never.

Speaker 5 (51:07):
What do you think China has been fighting for? China
has been on top of the world multiple times in
their four thousand year history. They've been at the top,
they've been at the bottom, they've been at the top,
they've been at the bottom. Their whole struggle is trying
to get back to the top when they're at the bottom.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
That's what happens to us next.

Speaker 5 (51:24):
And everybody out there who says, oh, yeah, I'd like
twenty five thousand dollars, they don't ask any questions about
what that means for their children. They don't ask those questions. Well,
probably because most of them aren't having kids. We're established
that the other day. I mean, why worry about the future,
You're not going to be there to pay it, right,
am I right?

Speaker 1 (51:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (51:41):
Woo.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
Anyway, Mandy, this Texter says, imagine, if you will, an
electorate's so ignorant that even when their candidate promises to
take their guns, take their money, and leave the border
wide open, they will still vote for them simply because
they are a Democrat. Yeah yeah, Mandy, it's vote for Kamala.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
My fairy godmother, and Kyle Clark will interview her. I
don't think you guys.

Speaker 5 (52:08):
One thing I have to say about Kyle Clark is
he's not afraid to ask difficult questions when given the opportunity,
which is why I think neither of these people will
talk to Kyle Clark. They're gonna go to absolutely friendly sources,
the kind of reporters that when they see them at
the White House Correspondence Center, they like squeal and run
across the room and hug each other like, oh my god,

(52:29):
you look so good. That's who Kamala Harris is gonna
sit down with. Or maybe Oprah you know, where's she been?

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Or just Gail.

Speaker 5 (52:39):
She'll sit down with Gail for CBS Mornings where she's
not gonna get one single difficult question. Yeah, yeah, So
illegal immigrants get free down payments on houses, not but
their kids do. I'm glad you caught that, Texter. Even
more help for people who are first generation homeowners. Now,

(52:59):
that could all also include people who come from a
family of renters. But how far back do you go?
What if your grandparents owned a house or your great grandparents,
does that count? What about your great great grandparents but
nobody else has since then?

Speaker 4 (53:11):
What if you live in New.

Speaker 5 (53:12):
York where nobody owns property and a lot of people
just live in an apartment for their entire lives. You know,
I'm just asking these questions. Her economic policies are based
on utter fantasy, and she's just trying to buy votes
with our money, and I am really seriously afraid that
it's going to work. Mandy Harris only has one policy.

(53:33):
I am not Trump so far, you are correct absolutely
using the first time homeowners thing in Colorado. My down
payment was twenty five hundred for a three hundred thousand
dollars house. I think if this is going to be done,
it's got to be done at the state level, because
think about how many people are in this. What if
everybody in the United States decides to take her up

(53:56):
on it. I will tell you this, if this becomes
a law, my daughter will own her first home in
the next year. Let's talk about something else, because I
have a bunch of stuff on the blog today that
I find very interesting. This is one of the most
interesting things I've seen in some time, and the least surprising.
So there's this website in their footwear company, Kuroo Footwear.

(54:18):
I'm gonna give them profs for this because I actually
think this is pretty clever. No, I don't want to coupon.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
I don't want free shoes.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
Okay, there we go.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
So they went and checked the distance between check in.

Speaker 5 (54:33):
To boarding, and they decided to make a list of
which airports in the country. You have to walk the Furthest. Now,
as a former flight attendant, I would have gotten all
of these right, if not in the perfect order, pretty
dang close. And one that didn't make the list that
I'm surprised about is Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport. The longest walks

(54:57):
go like this. If you want to walk, and I
mean walk for days, go to the dallasport Worth Airport.
That airport, because it's done in these concentric circles. Oh,
there's nothing worse than coming on in a certain concourse
and realize you have to go out of a different concourse.
In Dallas, You're like, oh my god, I should have
wanted my track shoes. The average between check in and

(55:19):
boarding gate. Are you ready for this? Two point three
six miles.

Speaker 6 (55:24):
Now, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
Where they came up with the two point three to
six and that they go to the Furthest.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Gate.

Speaker 5 (55:29):
That's what I want to know, because lately, whenever I
fly in and out of DIA, I am at the Furthest.

Speaker 4 (55:34):
Gate, the one all the way down at the end.
I know they're just trying to help me get my steps.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
Number two Washington Dulles International Airport. I would not have
gotten that one because I don't. I don't didn't fly
out of Dullest that often. And when I fly to
Washington now I try to go into Reagan. It's just
so much easier. Number three George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
It is a another monster Texas airport. And then number

(56:02):
four sitting pretty that's US Denver International Airport. The average
I guess I should say, let me double check. It
doesn't say average, so they must have gone from check
in to gate Denver International Airport one point four or
five miles. Now a lot of that's on the train right.
But we were talking earlier about the having the option of,

(56:26):
you know, being able to walk from Terminal C back
to the main terminal. I would do that in a
New York minute, especially coming off a long flight, especially
now that I know it's a mile and a half,
it's like twenty five minutes.

Speaker 4 (56:42):
I mean, that's hardly anytime at all.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
Number five is JFK in DC, and I've had that
experience as well. And there's just wherever you are in JFK,
you just want to just hope you're in the gate right.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
Next to it.

Speaker 5 (56:57):
Please, for the love of God, the number one's alliest airports,
the shortest walks. Lexington's Bluegrass Airport. It's tiny, It's like
a little mini airport. It's super cute. Westchester County Airport,
the Harrisburg International Airport, Lee Hugh Airport, and Hollywood Burbank Airport.

(57:18):
I've been to the Hollywood Burbank Airport. There's zero point
two miles from the airport. We fly in it out
of Long Beach. When we go to the port in
California and that airport, it's like thirty feet You're like, oh,
check it over here, Oh there's your gate. There you
go like, boom, there you have it. So they must
not have looked at Long Beach just saying throwing that
in there.

Speaker 7 (57:38):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (57:39):
Now, you know, take just take the tram in Dallas.
Sometimes the tram is slower than if you just hoof it,
depending on how far you have to go. And I
have tested that theory on multiple occasions. Mandy, have a
rod play some more Teddy swims. I will. I'm a
regional pilot and would love a sea terminal walkway. Do

(58:00):
you know what that's? The pilots and flight attendants would
probably take that walkway.

Speaker 10 (58:05):
There was.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
One time in the Orlando. The way the Orlando airports
set up, you have the main terminal, then you have
these monorail trains that go out to the outer terminals
where you have all the gates right, So the outer
terminals where all the gates are not actually connected to
the main terminal, you have to take the little monorail tram.

Speaker 4 (58:26):
We came back from a trip.

Speaker 5 (58:27):
I was exhausted and the trams weren't working correctly, so
they just opened.

Speaker 4 (58:31):
The doors and I walked over that.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
You could walk across the bridge and it was probably
a half mile. It was glorious, absolutely glorious, and a
bunch of us tried to get them to let us
do that on a regular basis, and they would not.

Speaker 6 (58:45):
Denver is the worst.

Speaker 5 (58:46):
If you fly from Colorado Springs for a connection, you
go to beat from B seventy one to A thirty one. Yuck, yuck. Oh, yes,
I did mean JFK in New York, not DC. Thank
you for correcting me on that.

Speaker 4 (59:00):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
They misspeilled Caalispell, Montana. I never flew into Kalispell, but
I did fly into Great Falls, Montana once and we
stayed as a flight attendant. This is a true story.

Speaker 4 (59:14):
In this place still exists, so you can check me.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
So we go in. There's not a lot of places
to stay in Great Falls, Montana. So we go to
this restaurant it not restaurant, hotel, and it's kind of
a square, maybe a rectangle of rooms around an open
courtyard right, and the pools in the middle. You've seen
this layout in other hotels. And we go and we
get and we're like, oh, there's a pool. So we

(59:38):
go downstairs hop in the pool, and I notice from
inside the pools that there's a giant window in the
pool and the window is connected to a bar in
the basement called the Sippin Dip, a tiki bar in
Great Falls, Montana. And it is still there. This was
like nineteen ninety two and you could sit at the bar.

(01:00:00):
You still can't sit at the bar and watch people
swim in the pool. One of my favorites. I would
actually go back to Great Falls, Montana just to go
back to the sipp Indet.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
Who doesn't love a teaky bar.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
Teaky bars are like, let's take cocktails with way too
much sugar in them, put a little umbrella, drink out
of a skull and have some fun.

Speaker 4 (01:00:21):
Yes, indeed, sign me up for that, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:00:25):
If they listened to the Mandy Connell Show, they'd know,
they'd know getting your steps in his face. Anyway, Wait
a minute, I don't know what that is. Har's will
win simply by not being Trump. Trump could reverse that
by doing the same that from will in Kallus Bell.
We checked out of the hotel, returned the rental car,
and got to the gate in fifteen minutes. Heck yes,

(01:00:49):
heck yes, Mandy. Did you ever do any flights to
Puerto Rico? Yes, I did, and Delta used to lay
us over at the Hotel Caribe Hilton.

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
Resort and Casino.

Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
And one day we were standing at the check and
desk and I met, Oh my gosh, whose ear got
bitten off by Mike Tyson Evander Holifield. I met Evander
Hollifield in the lobby of the Hotel Caribe Hilton. People
used to clap a lot when you're going to a
vacation destination, if you are flying to someplace where people
like Hawaii. When you landed in Hawaii, everybody always clapped.

(01:01:25):
And then there are the flights where people are so
grateful it's over that they will also clap. But if
you're just like flying into Poughkeepsie and you're clapping when
you land, I cannot help you.

Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
That's just weird, just weird.

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
Falt Lake City, my walk was eight miles, no moving
sidewalk or train. Did you walk into the city from
the airport?

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
What?

Speaker 11 (01:01:50):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
I don't know, I don't know what that's talking about. Okay,
when we get back, I got another I got some
bad news. Coffee's back on the nutritional hit list. I'll
explain after this. So a Texter said, Trump flip flops
on tons of stuff, and now he says the Freedom
Metal is better than the Medal of Honor because some
rich lady gave him some money. Wtf. Cadet Bone Spurs

(01:02:16):
bragged about dodging STDs in New York while my dad
and others of his generation were dodging bullets in Vietnam.

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
Beer.

Speaker 5 (01:02:24):
First of all, as I said to this text, we
learned during the Clinton administration draft dodging is okay, right,
didn't we learn?

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
That?

Speaker 5 (01:02:31):
Was the takeaway there? The Medal of Honor comments that
he said the Freedom Metal, that's just dumb. It's a
dumb thing to say. It's just dumb. And then they
went on in a different text and can you explain
why Trump loves every dictator on the planet. She is

(01:02:52):
brilliant because he rules with an iron fist. I don't
want to be ruled with an iron fist, just saying
I listen every day, by the way, So I want
to respond to that. Trump admires these men because he
perceives them as extremely powerful because they are. And a
guy like Trump admires power. I don't even think he
really pays attention to how that power is wielded. He
just knows that that person is the end all be

(01:03:14):
all in their countries and he admires that. Would Trump
loved to have that here, probably, but is he gonna
met No. I have faith in our checks and balances.
I've always had faith in our systems. And for everything
that happened on January sixth, what also happened a new
president was certified, right, So it's kind of like, I
don't know. Mandy sucks in Sioux City, And yes, they

(01:03:36):
embrace their airport code should be on the list for
shorted walks, shortest walks at an airport. We are to
learn all the city codes in flight attendant training, and
let me just say, sucks. Was really simple to remember.
You really didn't have to put a lot of thought
into that. What's funny, My funniest one because I made
up little numonic devices to remember city codes. My favorite Oneville,

(01:04:00):
Kentucky is sd F s d F. So I came
up with some dumb efforts and then I end up
moving there. Ironic, huh, ironic. Anyway, So you know, I
can't explain the things that President or you know, Trump does.
I please don't ask me, Please don't ask me. But

(01:04:22):
what I do know is this that overall the policies,
and there are significant policies that Donald Trump has expressed
put on his website, he's got a plan for America
that he plans to institute when he comes back. I
agree with that stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:04:35):
I agree with it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:36):
So the man I cannot explain, Please don't ask me
anymore to do it, because no, I can't do it anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
I can't do it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:47):
Now my angry Trump fan is back. Are you eving
kidding me? You think Trump would be a dictator if
you could?

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
I really believe that because he looks at these dictators
that have complete and total power, and he admired them
for that power. And the guy already has money, he
already has fame. The only thing left is power.

Speaker 7 (01:05:08):
So here we are.

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
But I don't think he will be a dictator. I
don't think he's gonna do dictatory things like trying to
create a military coup to upset the balance of power
in government.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
I don't think he's going.

Speaker 7 (01:05:18):
To do that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:19):
But if you're asking me just philosophically, if you said Trump,
you could be a dictator, because first of all, I
think he thinks I would be an amazing dictator. I
would be the best dictator ever. Nobody would ever dictate
like I dictated. I mean, can't you at least a
little bit Trump fan? Hear him saying that. But I'm

(01:05:39):
not worried about him being a dictator. That's it. Louisville
is was Stanford Field. Yes, I know that, but that's
not how I remembered it. Because that's not helpful anyway. Mandy,
Trump is planning to get rid of many of our
checks and balances. No, he's not, you guys, he's not.
Whatever you're consuming that is telling you that he is

(01:06:00):
going to get rid of the checks and balances of
government that all came from Project twenty twenty five, which
he has disavowed over and over and over again. If
you just go and look up his little points of
you know what, I'll find him in a minute. But
let me talk about this coffee story for a second.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:06:15):
A study out of India says drinking four or more
cups of coffee a day can raise the.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
Risk of a heart attack or stroke.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
This according to a new study, Anthony, how many energy
drinks do you drink a day? How many? Because if
it's more than two, that can also raise your chance
of heart attack or stroke. So there you go. Around
one in five participants in this study consume that much
caffeine every day. That's about four cups of coffee or

(01:06:42):
to ten cans of soda or two energy drinks. Chronic
caffeine consumption was shown to significantly impact the autonomic nervous system,
raising heart rate and blood pressure over time. You should
always know your blood pressure, you should always know your
resting pulse rate always. So now, apparently those people were

(01:07:03):
more likely to have a heart attacker stroke. I'm not
giving up coffee, but you know something to pay attention
to If you have those kinds of issues ever fly
into o RF. Chuck might say, old retired fart or
a good flight attendant would say, I don't drink, nor smoke,
norfolk norfolk. Yes I have.

Speaker 4 (01:07:25):
He admires how they run circles around our leaders.

Speaker 5 (01:07:28):
There you go, Mandy, look up the airport code for
Japan's fuku Yaka Airport. I'm not going to fall for that, mister.
Not at all, Not at all, Mandy. Do these newspapers
and news channels benefit from elevating the left and trashing
the right? Do they get kickbacks or benefits for doing so? No,
They're all just on the same team. It's really that simple.

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Speaker 5 (01:08:19):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
I'm your host, Mandy Connell. A ride in the driver's
seat over there, and we've got a bunch of stuff
that we want to get to and the wine you
he coming up in a little bit to tell you
how to buy wine in the grocery store. Yes, indeedy,
we're gonna give you the keys to the kingdom people,
if that's all that's available. We don't want you out
there scavenging or settling. We'll do that in just a

(01:08:40):
few minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
A rod.

Speaker 5 (01:08:42):
I got a question.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
Everybody keeps asking me like.

Speaker 5 (01:08:46):
Are you nervous about the DNC. Are you nervous because.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
They're supposed to be protesters. Are you nervous?

Speaker 7 (01:08:52):
There was literally no safer place than our experience at
the RNC.

Speaker 6 (01:08:58):
Well, and that is with yeah, this level of.

Speaker 7 (01:09:01):
What we expect in terms of like protests, but there
was stuff on the outside we were hearing about.

Speaker 6 (01:09:04):
But the Zone is the safest place on earth.

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
The Zone is the safest place on Earth.

Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
And I'm looking at the map right now to see
if we are actually I think our place is in
the Zone. I need to just look at the map
that I tried to get to you right here, and
now I can't get to it. I'll find it, though,
but people keep asking, They're like, what are you gonna
do if I'm like, well, I I want to go
down and I'm not going to be a part of it.
But I'll be on the fringe of it. Do they think, oh,

(01:09:31):
in the thick of it, yes, well maybe not in
the thick of it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
I don't want to be.

Speaker 5 (01:09:34):
I don't want to be where I can get punched
in the face or hit with a pepper ball or
something like that. I don't want to be that in it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
A Rod will be in it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
It should we.

Speaker 5 (01:09:42):
Rob, Okay, let's just hypothetically, it's like play some things out. Okay,
So if we are finding ourselves in the thick of it,
I think we go Facebook live right then on Ko's
Facebook page.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:09:55):
Probably.

Speaker 7 (01:09:55):
I just don't want to like have like F bomb,
F bomb, f bomb with all these people because its
probably gonna be a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
Well, it's a live event, though, so we're not responsible
for what happens in a live event. You know the
news coverage situation, and you know, if there's cursing, there's cursing,
that's not our fault.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
We won't be cursing. I mean maybe I will.

Speaker 6 (01:10:12):
I don't know, Rob Dawson, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
I don't think I've ever heard Rob say a curse word.

Speaker 6 (01:10:17):
I don't think you're wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:10:18):
I don't think now I have to find out just
Rob curse.

Speaker 6 (01:10:21):
Yeaham on all week A.

Speaker 5 (01:10:22):
Rod only curses like so infrequently. It's weird when you do.

Speaker 6 (01:10:26):
You're kidding.

Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
Well, around me, you infrequently curse, hum, never use the
F word.

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Really, I don't. Okay, well, that's definitely a possibility.

Speaker 6 (01:10:39):
That's entirely actually fact.

Speaker 4 (01:10:41):
But I do think that if we are in.

Speaker 5 (01:10:42):
The middle of anything, and Chuck did say to me,
he goes you know, if anything happens, you're you've got
to text me right away and say you're okay. I
was like, of course, yeah, I mean if anything goes down,
I mean, I I don't know. A Rod is right.
The security zone is uh is Prettyeah, it's pretty intense.
And once you're in the zone, you're in the zone,
and you cannot go in the zone without credential.

Speaker 6 (01:11:06):
No, so multiple credentials.

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
Yeah, like the first day you can get in, but
they have they literally are checking people off on a
computer as you walk in to go get your credentials.
You cannot you cannot get in there without a credential.
So it's going to be very interesting to see how
they try to manage. I mean they're now granted they
said they were going to have tens of thousands of
people at the march on the RNC that ended up

(01:11:29):
being tens of people, which was honestly kind of sad.
It's like, ah, shucks, nobody showed up. But it was
right after Trump. Uh, you know, survived an assassination attempt,
so uh, maybe that's what kind of tamped it down. Man,
you are you're worried about being outside the zone in
Chicago since they have six hundred plus murders a year.

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
So, uh, where we're going to be.

Speaker 5 (01:11:53):
In Chicago is not in that part of Chicago where
a vast majority of those murders happened. But if the
DNC is any like the RNC, we will not see
a whole lot of the rest of Chicago because this
is like a track meet the whole time. It's a lot.
My wife said, we have to go to the bean.
The Oh, the bean is really cool. I have my pictures,

(01:12:15):
you know, lying under the bean, getting my reflection. I
have those.

Speaker 4 (01:12:20):
Rob might know how to speak around a lady.

Speaker 5 (01:12:21):
That is possible. That is very possible. Oh those days
when such things mattered, and now it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
So.

Speaker 4 (01:12:31):
The inside the.

Speaker 5 (01:12:32):
Zone is going to be the safest place to be
because there's multiple former presidents coming to speak, But I'm
not nervous. I'm looking forward to it. It's gonna be
a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to talking to
people about the democratic vision for the country, looking forward
to having discussions about that. I'm looking forward to getting
the vibe of the entire thing because honestly, the GOP

(01:12:53):
convention was very joyful, very joyful, and people were happy
and upbeat and just really excited for the future. And
I'm guessing now that Kamala is the nominee, there's going
to be a lot of that same feel. So we
shall see. Got a bunch of other stuff on the
blog today, but I want to share this with you.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
Ay Rod, you're a pretty hard worker.

Speaker 5 (01:13:15):
You want to know how you need to change the
way you're talking to get ahead at work?

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:13:20):
Do I want to?

Speaker 11 (01:13:21):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:13:21):
It is really These are actually because some of these
are actually really good. Jessica Chen, who coaches professionals on
how to use language to get ahead. She says an
employee doesn't need to be loud in order to get
people's attention. It's not about being assertive, dominant, or aggressive.
It's just about being intentional and smart, so that when
you chime in, people listen.

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
The first simple phrase that.

Speaker 5 (01:13:43):
Anyone can utter in order to come across as intelligent
and thoughtful is I hear what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
The hard part for me is in saying that. A
lot of times I.

Speaker 5 (01:13:53):
Don't hear what they're saying.

Speaker 6 (01:13:54):
I hear what you're saying. Is a little smart alec.

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
No not if you say not, if you say it
with intention, I hear you hear what you're saying.

Speaker 6 (01:14:01):
No, I hate it. I would hate it.

Speaker 5 (01:14:02):
Well most of the time I don't listen, so that
would be I couldn't use that one. That would be dishonest.

Speaker 11 (01:14:08):
You what.

Speaker 10 (01:14:11):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
That's a way to make people feel heard.

Speaker 5 (01:14:16):
Instead of interrupting a coworker and a meeting with something
you want to say, listen carefully and wait for them
to finish speaking, and when you preface your next phrase,
I hear what you're saying. You're showing the other people
you acknowledge them. The second valuable statement Chen says is
I'm excited about this. Now. I use this all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:14:36):
I am excited.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
I'm stoked because I am I allow myself to get
excited about dumb stuff. It's almost like a superpower. I'm
excited about possibly having a riot at the DNC.

Speaker 4 (01:14:49):
I don't want to be in the middle of it.

Speaker 5 (01:14:50):
Where people are getting hurt, but I'm excited. Not that
I want it to happen, but I'm excited that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
It could happen.

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
We just don't know. So in order to say I'm
excited about this, you're basically leading people you're excited. The
third phrase is simple, here's what's new. This is fantastic
because you can just say, oh, if you may not
know this, you're going to need to know this information.

(01:15:17):
It's an attention getter. While most people preface their follow
ups with high following up, here, successful people are like, Hey,
since our last conversation, this is what happened. There you go.
The fourth key phrase to getting ahead is back then.
According to communications expert, it's important to use phrases like
back then to talk about previous accomplishments. Speaking about prior

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successes like that means you can unlock more opportunities. And finally,
the smart phrase that smart and successful people use is
thank you for whatever, just being nice. These are kind
of milk toasts, but in a corporate environment. Some of
these things matter.

Speaker 6 (01:16:00):
I don't know why. I heard all of them in
a smart alec way. I didn't like any So how.

Speaker 5 (01:16:04):
Do you make people feel heard? I know, give him,
I got you, man, little head, nond I got you man.

Speaker 6 (01:16:11):
Then overthink it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:14):
I think she's just talking about the concepts like you
don't have to have to say thank you for But
I try to say, I appreciate this. I appreciate blank,
I appreciate that you've done this just making people feel
don't people, I hear you when a boss tells you,
I hear what you're saying, or I get it when
you bring something counter to their attention that really means

(01:16:34):
they're telling you to pound the sand. I also believe this, Yes,
I do, I almost yeah. Uh, Mandy, I feel more
sorry for you than scared. If there is trouble, please
remember Antifa is always correct in the eyes of the law. Aha,
except you guys right now, they're not fighting fascists. They're

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going to be fighting democrats, and we all know how
that's going to go. If you're in the Springs, you
should have had a chance to sign up for the
win yogies. Of course we're going to talk about it
two thirty, but I asked her to pop on now
because one thing I know about the win Yogi that
you guys may not know. She is a Star Wars nerd.
She's a full on Star Wars nerd. Which brings me

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to this next this next story. Disney, which for my
entire childhood is a native Floridian and child of the seventies,
was the happiest place on earth, has now finally done it.
They took the prices so high that their attendance at
the theme parks is down this year as everybody's kind

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of clawing back there spending.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
We all have our the STEMI checks are gone.

Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
People are now facing massive inflation hikes trying to keep
their head above water, and a five thousand dollars trip
for a family of four for four days to Disney
isn't necessarily in the cards. So Disney is trying to
figure out because Disney has never officially discounted or reduced
the rate of their ticket prices. I have like special passes,

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they have off peak passes that are cheaper, they have,
you know, all of these various ways that you can
save money, but they've never actually come out and said
we're cutting the daily rate, or we're cutting the annual
pass rate. As a matter of fact, annual passes go
up at a higher rate than daily ticket prices. And
the last time we went to a Disney park we
went to Disneyland. I'd never been to Disneyland. And after that,

(01:18:25):
I was like, you know what, I'm good and I
I am such a lover of the Magic Kingdom that
I send people to the egg roll cart in Frontier Land.
I mean, I grew up in that park. Oh well,
I don't do dole whip. You know that about me.
I'm not doing that, I know. But they're delicious, I
really really hot. Yeah, they're all over there. But Crystal
pointed out something to me, because she reads the log

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before everybody else does and corrects most of my mistakes,
almost all of them most of the time. And she
reached out to me and said, we're done with Disney.

Speaker 9 (01:18:55):
Why so Disney, especially once they acquired Star Wars, Uh,
they just have kind of taken some of these icons
of my childhood and my youth and made them suck,
made them suck. And it's the South Park episode on
Disney is pretty much spot.

Speaker 5 (01:19:13):
On, and uh, you know, very recently the Acolyte.

Speaker 9 (01:19:17):
Nope, don't want to have the lesbian space, which is yes,
the space which is yeah. So I just uh I
when I texted you, I said, well, maybe if Disney
would stop destroying and tearing down some of these icons
of our childhood.

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
They're remaking, uh well not remaking, but.

Speaker 9 (01:19:32):
They're doing the Mufasa Lion King thing, where now Mufasa
isn't part of the royalty, he's not descended from royalty.
And I'm like, what, Yeah, the canon of the changing
Lion King cannon. They've already changed Star Wars cannon.

Speaker 5 (01:19:46):
So I canon's dead. Well, and that canon's dead, and
so it's just it's disappointing.

Speaker 9 (01:19:51):
Yes, when we went to go see Deadpool and Wolverine,
which there was a lot of Disney jokes in that
movie that was pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:19:58):
The one of the previews was for the Mufasa and
it looks amazing, but part of it is Mufasa isn't
descended from the royalty, the royal line, and he was
an orphan that became king.

Speaker 5 (01:20:12):
Oh of course. And so I mean all the best
Disney movies, the parents are dead. So you know, you
know that that's part of the thing that they do.
I agree with you, though on the overall concept of
people just saying, look, we're not going to give you
any more money because you've taken our family friendly entertainment
that all of us grew up on. When I was
a child, when a Disney movie came out, you did
not have to think twice about taking the whole family.

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You didn't have to think twice about your children being
indoctrinated or or having something pitched to them that you,
as a parent, were not ready to have a conversation
about it. You didn't have to worry about that. You
just had to worry about your friends thinking, you know what,
it might be cool to be an orphan, like that
was the only thing.

Speaker 9 (01:20:48):
And artists get emotional when Bampy's mom you know bit
it you alert Well, those of you who haven't heard, yeah,
it's not pretty, but yeah, it's just one of those
things off if I and that's what I said in
my text. I was like, we're going to take our
money over to Paramount because and we Universal Studios the studios,

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and we love Harry Potter World and JK.

Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
Rowling gets trashed for another thing.

Speaker 9 (01:21:15):
Yes about protecting women's spaces, and so if it's also
geared towards an older yeah, you know, dynamic gear towards
the little it's not it's not you know, it's a
it's a what is it that it's a wonderful world
that that one particular ride, the.

Speaker 5 (01:21:31):
One that makes you want to drive a nail for
your skull to make the singing stop. I got caught
when it's a small world broke one time for like
three hours.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
That that's the violation of the Geneva convention.

Speaker 5 (01:21:42):
It should be. It was so horrible that a friend
of mine got out of the boat and walked. This
was Gradnight got out of the boat and walked, and
he was banned for life from Disney again spoiler alert,
he's been back. They didn't care, although now with facial
recognition software.

Speaker 4 (01:21:58):
That might mean something.

Speaker 5 (01:21:59):
Back in the bubble, back in the eighties, it meant
they took a polaroid of you, and that was pretty
much it. That was all that happened. So but that
was just Yeah, that was kind of my perspective.

Speaker 9 (01:22:08):
If Disney wants to kind of win back fans like
me and my mom ended up, Yeah, stop.

Speaker 6 (01:22:16):
Messing with you.

Speaker 9 (01:22:16):
I can stop pushing things, especially that I would question
as appropriate if I still had a child that young.

Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
Yeah, I just don't. And I you know, I love
Disney movies Beauty and the Beast.

Speaker 9 (01:22:28):
I still have the first gift my husband ever gave
me when we were dating is a figurine of Bell
and the Beast dancing. Because I was such a Beauty
and the Beast fanatic deleg soundtrack and it is, as
I know the whole soundtrack by heart, sing.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Along with it.

Speaker 5 (01:22:43):
I got bad news. They're reworking Beauty and the Beast.
Of course they are because gas Gone is too rape Okay,
so I can hardly wait how they toned down the
Gascon song, which is one of the best.

Speaker 4 (01:22:54):
But we're gonna come.

Speaker 5 (01:22:55):
Back and we're going to shift gears entirely because it's
time to officially talk wine. If you've ever been to
the grocery stores trying to figure out what to buy,
we're going to tell you how to decide. Right after this.
I gave you a task, the wine yogi. Yeah, I
gave you a task. A listener sent an email. Of course,
if I was a good host, i'd have the email
here to read. But I'm not because we just chatted
the entire time about how much we love theme parks

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even though we're not going back.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
Like we both love theme park.

Speaker 5 (01:23:19):
Oh no, I'm going back, I know, but I'm talking
about Disney too. We both have a soft spot. Were Yeah,
we're not going there anymore anyway. I asked her a
listener sent an email and said, Hey, I live in
a rural area. My only options for wine are at
the grocery store. How do I choose the best wine
at the grocery store? And I want to start there
because you wrote great blog posting that I linked on
the blog that everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
Can go read from her.

Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
I am thewinyogi dot com website. But let's talk about
the basics of shopping for wine at the grocery store.
Even the same stuff applies though, I mean the same
tip supply wherever you're buying wine, it does.

Speaker 9 (01:23:53):
And I began by prefacing you have to understand if
the grocery store is your only option, the people who
are buying the wine and bringing it in are not
going to be.

Speaker 5 (01:24:03):
Very knowledgeable.

Speaker 9 (01:24:04):
It is probably whatever the distributor, and it's probably just
one rep that's going to come in and it's probably
a large distributor, and there are some that are nationwide
and so they all have the same portfolio.

Speaker 5 (01:24:14):
So that's why you can go into if it's a grocery.

Speaker 9 (01:24:17):
Store or even just your small liquor store that's like
right next to the grocery store, or a state run
ABC store red Dot if you're in South Carolina, those
liquor stores, you're going to see the same usual suspects
nineteen crimes is. You know the Snoop Dogg has a
nineteen Crimes red blend, you're going to see if you're
looking at more expensive wines, things like Camus and Marsileat

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for Shardonay, you'll see these kind of standard wines, and
that's because they come from the same portfolio or book
and that's from that distribution company that sells it. And
so they're going to have certain quotas, just like any
kind of sales rep is, I have a quota that
they got to meet. So a lot of times when
you are stuck deal with stores that don't provide kind

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of that personalized service, and it's a reality.

Speaker 5 (01:25:06):
I definitely have been in those places.

Speaker 9 (01:25:07):
Where I was in Indianapolis, I didn't have enough time
to go find a local wine shop and get to
know the wine, you know, the owner's shop, and then
start talking to and maybe have the rep come in
and taste them while I happen.

Speaker 5 (01:25:18):
To be standing there, which I have a knack for doing.
I just did it in Golden so but you.

Speaker 9 (01:25:24):
Know, I didn't have that time, so we stopped off,
you know, on our way back to the hotel.

Speaker 5 (01:25:29):
Because we wanted, you know, a decent bottle of lines.

Speaker 9 (01:25:31):
So I always begin first with if you have a
good idea of what you enjoy, that's where I would
gravitate towards. And so for me, I'm definitely as I'm
getting older, my palette is evolving and continues to evolve.
I am much more of an Old World or European
style wine drinker. I don't like the higher alcohol. I

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don't like a lot of sugar. I like dryer, lower
in alcohol wines that have a lot of nuance, not
just big tannin bombs or big fruit bombs.

Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
I want.

Speaker 9 (01:26:03):
I want some acidity, and I want different layers of
various things in that class of wine. So I tend
to find and not old Not all Old World wine
is like that, because they do cater to the American palette,
but there were some there are some definite go tos
for me that I know that are.

Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
Going to have those kinds of things. But if you
enjoy those other things, if you like Oki.

Speaker 9 (01:26:23):
Shardonay, and you like big cab sab California style cab sab,
then that's what I would look for when you are
going into your grocery store setting or a small liquor
store setting.

Speaker 4 (01:26:35):
So I do want to point this out.

Speaker 5 (01:26:37):
Let's talk about AVV, which is alcohol by volume, because
I didn't know this until I read it in your
blog today. So you look at the ABV to determine
the range of whether this is going to be a
sweeter wine to a more acidic wine.

Speaker 4 (01:26:50):
Explain that that ratio.

Speaker 9 (01:26:52):
So if you kind of just and it's not necessarily
always hard and fast rule.

Speaker 5 (01:26:58):
But let's say you.

Speaker 9 (01:26:58):
Pick up a bottle of prosecco and you don't know
based off of the furbage that they're telling you, is
this going to be a dry prosecco semi sweet or
is it going to be sweet?

Speaker 5 (01:27:07):
Because I get that a lot.

Speaker 9 (01:27:08):
I don't like prosecco because it's sweet, right, And typically
because a lot of times it.

Speaker 5 (01:27:13):
Is, especially if it's from cupcake.

Speaker 9 (01:27:15):
But if you flip that bottle around and you look
at ABV, and by law, all wine in the United
States that is sold in the United States has to
list alcohol by volume and that's ABV, that's that percentage,
and so if it is under that ten percent range,
it's going to be sweet.

Speaker 5 (01:27:32):
There's going to be residual sugar in that is that
because the sugar was not all kind of consumed by
the yeast, and that's why it has lower alcohol as well.

Speaker 9 (01:27:40):
Or they halted fermentation to preserve some of that sugar. Okay,
So because the byproduct of yeast consuming sugar is it
produces alcoholing CO two carbon dioxide, and so if it's
a still wine, no bubbles, that just breeds off.

Speaker 5 (01:27:55):
And then what you're left with is alcohol.

Speaker 9 (01:27:57):
Now, sometimes you can't have sweet wines that are going
to be higher in alcohol content because they're pushing more
of that fortified wine range. So they're actually adding in
it's a sweeter wine that they're adding in a brandy.
It's some type of fortified distilate to bring up the
alcohol to make more of a dessert wine. So if
you find instead of it's a seven hundred and fifty

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mili liter bottle, which is your standard size, if it's
half of that, that three twenty five, and it says
things like late harvest or you know, ice fine, you
may notice that those alcohol numbers might be slightly higher just.

Speaker 5 (01:28:31):
Because of that, because it is fortified with something else.
It might be. It might be expressibly, could be. And
I guess the sweet spot or not sweet spot, depending
on your palette, is between eleven and where.

Speaker 9 (01:28:43):
I would say for me personally that thirteen and a half.
I like to stay under fourteen, just because when I
start getting into fourteen and above and a lot of
your bigger California wines, your New World wines could also
be South American. They because of the the demographic that
they're targeting, they want those porch pounders is what I

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would refer to it as a party pounders.

Speaker 4 (01:29:09):
And that's just whye that you serve to everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:29:11):
Yeah, it's at a party.

Speaker 9 (01:29:13):
You're not necessarily eating, it's not the idea isn't to
pair this with dinner and or with this course or that,
you know whatever. It's just to drink and to you know,
feel the effects of the wine.

Speaker 5 (01:29:24):
So if you're thinking, like you're at.

Speaker 9 (01:29:26):
A party, or you know, you've just had a really
long day and maybe just need something, but you don't
want to drink you know, bourbon or whisky or that's kind.

Speaker 5 (01:29:33):
Of you know, spirit.

Speaker 9 (01:29:36):
These these wines tend to be higher in that alcohol content.
But it's affecting me, you know, And just as you've said,
but more so, my husband and I have noticed it's
just when we have those higher alcohol wines, we just
feel it the next day. It may affect our sleep,
but it may also just like whether it's stomach or
just kind of that residual malaise. And I have just

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found that that under fourteen, so like if I can
get around thirteen twelve to thirteen, for me as a
sweet spot, I have a lot of lovely nuance, whether
it's acids that I'm looking for in the wine. Softer
tannins often occur in that range, although it really does,
it does depend on the varietal. But for me, that

(01:30:20):
just seems to be those kind of wines, and a
lot of them are old world wines that just kind
of are more for the wine.

Speaker 5 (01:30:27):
Itself, not the alcohol. I was kind of surprised to
see number three to cork or not to cork, and
you came out saying, look, there's nothing wrong with a
screw top.

Speaker 4 (01:30:36):
That's become a thing because.

Speaker 5 (01:30:38):
Honestly, quark's cause a lot of problems for wine makers.

Speaker 7 (01:30:41):
They do.

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
They're expensive. It is because it's a tree, so it
has to be harvested.

Speaker 9 (01:30:47):
So also a lot of you know, when you start
getting into sustainability issues, it's just it becomes an issue and.

Speaker 5 (01:30:54):
Can be very expensive.

Speaker 9 (01:30:55):
We had recently in the last couple of years, glass
was also very expensive.

Speaker 5 (01:30:59):
So you're seeing a lot of wine makers.

Speaker 9 (01:31:01):
The mom and pop, smaller productions moving towards canned wine
as well. But the idea of cork, while I love it,
you'll see a lot of them are synthetic. That's a
less expensive. It also prohibits the interaction of a little
bug TCA. I'm not going to give the lung scientific version,

(01:31:22):
but it's a little bug that lives on natural cork
and it affects anywhere from ten to fifteen percent of
all wine out there that has natural cork. And what
this bug does is it interacts with the wine when
it comes into contact, and it leaves the wine smelling
like wet dog, wet carbuilding, It's skunky. And I have
experienced enough with people when I have said this wine

(01:31:43):
is corked when trying to return something, to know that
they have absolutely no me what I'm saying. Of course
it's corked, it has a cork in it. That's not
what I'm talking about. And most places, reputable wine stores
will take corked wine back and replace it.

Speaker 5 (01:31:56):
I've never had a problem taking corked wine back to
any place. I've taken back to grocery stores. I've taken
it back to publics in Florida public. This is a
different kind of grocery I know, I mean, I know,
it's magical. It is a magical question that someone's got.
And by the way, there's more stuff in this blog
posting that you can find linked on my blog at
Mandy's blog dot com. Mandy asked the wine Yogi if
the score cards in the wine store actually means something.

Speaker 9 (01:32:20):
So if you want to taste what Robert Parker and
it's not even Robert Parker anymore, or you know, whether
it's wine Spectator, wine independent, all of these different. This
is a group of editors that are going to go
in and they're going to taste wine and it's their palette.

Speaker 5 (01:32:34):
And then also, while people will deny it.

Speaker 9 (01:32:39):
It's who's who's advertising in their magazine, who's got big
buys in their magazine yep, and things like that. Yes,
the wine score cards can be a good place to start,
but I personally don't pay any attention to what Wine
Spectator says because that's not my palette.

Speaker 5 (01:32:57):
I don't really care. I can maybe look at it
to see how they're describing the wine.

Speaker 9 (01:33:03):
If if I didn't get a decent enough description on
the back of the bottle. But honestly, if you have
your phone right there, google what grenache should be like.
If you are looking at grenache to raw mouved.

Speaker 5 (01:33:16):
Blend from the Rhone River Valley, what.

Speaker 9 (01:33:18):
Are the typical tasting notes of that that particular blend.

Speaker 5 (01:33:21):
Do you use a wine app because I use Levino,
but the Vino is for me just like Amazon reviews,
you have to read all the reviews and look for
the common threads and take everything else out.

Speaker 9 (01:33:32):
I would say I used to encourage people to use
the Avivino because it is a great place just to
snap a photo of, like and get information and get information,
but like you're out of dinner for me for the
longest time, I just used it just to kind of remember,
and now I don't really need to do that kind
of thing.

Speaker 5 (01:33:47):
I will take pictures of wines, but.

Speaker 9 (01:33:48):
Then I would I just file that in a different right,
you know, file in my gallery on my phone. Wine
Folly is a great website that I think does less
about because they sell.

Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
Their own stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:34:01):
They sell more like educational winemen right right, and books
like that. But they I think provide a very uh
fantastic baseline and introduction to different grape styles, different regions,
different approaches to winemaking.

Speaker 5 (01:34:17):
Without all of the.

Speaker 9 (01:34:20):
Purchasing power of certain winemakers out of California that influence
all of your wine spectator type magazines.

Speaker 5 (01:34:27):
It would be lovely if every wine was like the
what is Itasca Taska? Because the winemaker of this wine
out on the Western Slope writes the best, most perfect
descriptions of her wines ever.

Speaker 4 (01:34:43):
So I grabbed the bottle.

Speaker 5 (01:34:44):
I want to read this description, just as if any
other winemakers are listening.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
Where is it?

Speaker 5 (01:34:48):
I don't know what I did with it. You just
left a bottle of wine somewhere. I think it's in
my bag. Okay, angle one second.

Speaker 4 (01:34:54):
Because I want to see this.

Speaker 5 (01:34:55):
It would be so nice if all winemakers wrote their descriptions,
because sometimes you flip because I always look at the
description on the back, and sometimes it's like imagine walking
through a field of golden rod. It'll hit your palette
like a bright sunshiny ray, and then it is strong.
You won't know what hit you. That is not helpful.
It's like the people who named the odorant. So it

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has told me what it smells like.

Speaker 9 (01:35:17):
I would like to say, though, I like to make
fun of those kind of reviews, so when I write
my wine notes for my wine classes, I will say,
pairs great with the Broncos getting blown out by sixty.

Speaker 5 (01:35:29):
Points versus Miami. Things like that. So this one says
this wine is tropical, floral and citrusy, with a sharp
natural acidity and dry finish, and that is exactly what
it tastes like. It is, that is exactly what it
tastes like.

Speaker 9 (01:35:44):
Well, and Jamie, so, Jamie Henderson, she has an amazing palette.
This is the storm cellar of her and Paeonia in Colorado,
and she and her husband Steve were psalms at Shanahan's,
and so they her background is being able to just
scribe things to customers right so that they can understand
it's not just wine, it's it's the cocktail she's going

(01:36:06):
to create for you. So she's just fantastic at taking,
you know, these understandable vocabulary words and not sat challenging
words and to kind of, you know, convey like what
this wine is going to taste like, what it should
taste like to you it may not and that's please
always take that kind of with the grain of salt
that it is. The scripture, the scriptures that on the

(01:36:28):
talking points that are from the winemakers themselves. A lot
of times, if they're big and they're in your grocery store,
it's a marketing team that has come up with these
things because they know that words like strong suppultanins or
you know, uh blovity blogging forward, they know that these
things will capture Also, ladies, I do, and I'm guilty
of this too.

Speaker 5 (01:36:48):
They know that we buy based off of what the
label looks. Correct and well, I used to and then
I bought a bottle of Gropa in Italy and it
ended my love affair with pretty bottles because gropa is disgusting.

Speaker 9 (01:37:01):
Well, that's when you just pour it out and you
keep the bottle, I turn it into a candle.

Speaker 4 (01:37:05):
I still have bad feeling about that, just really bad
feeling about that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
What is it that?

Speaker 5 (01:37:09):
I wait, why is it that I drink wines in
Spain and don't get a headache, But if I drink
spain wines in the US.

Speaker 7 (01:37:16):
I do so.

Speaker 9 (01:37:17):
Oftentimes part of it is just the experience of where
you're at. There is just something to be said for
you know, walking in the rolling hills of Tuscany. Yes,
and you know you're sipping on your Kiani.

Speaker 4 (01:37:29):
Class through a field of golden rod.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
There you go.

Speaker 9 (01:37:33):
But there is something to be said with because you're
relaxed already.

Speaker 5 (01:37:37):
You're just you're in that vacation environment.

Speaker 9 (01:37:40):
Also, if you are drinking like the local produced wine,
they don't have the the the soul fights and the
preservatives that wine that is going to have to be
transported transported across the Atlantic or from the Pacific and
come into a port or maybe.

Speaker 5 (01:37:57):
Sit there off of those ports.

Speaker 9 (01:37:59):
If they got stuck in the traffic jams waiting to
come in and then make their way to Colorado. So
I hate to say it. Everybody that's like, you know, don't.
I don't drink red wines because sulfights give me headaches.
Your white wines have even more because they have to
be even more shelf stable because they don't have the
tannins as a natural preservative.

Speaker 5 (01:38:19):
So when there's there's also so many wines over there
that they're never intending for export exactly. So like in Switzerland,
I think like seventy five to eighty percent of the
wine produced in Switzerland is consumed in Switzerland, so they
don't put any of that crap in it because it's
not going anywhere.

Speaker 9 (01:38:32):
And a lot of times the alcohol is slightly lower
because it's not meant to lay down for ten years.
It's not going to be, you know, sitting in a
cellar somewhere. It's meant to be drunk with your paiea
or if you're in the Asors. I texted Mandy the
other day, I love the Asors. First time I ever
had red wine with fish, I had Portuguese red wine

(01:38:52):
in the Azores with swordfish and it was amazing and
it was life changing, And.

Speaker 5 (01:38:56):
I love the Asorus So this Texter just said, Colorado
wine is trash, peaches and corn. That's what Colorado does
when I moved through eleven years ago. That was also
my experience. Since I've been having the wine Yogi on
the show, she has introduced me to an absolute wealth
of wines from Colorado that are outstanding and you could
put them up against any wine from anywhere in the world.

Speaker 9 (01:39:18):
And I would encourage that texture to follow ted Lasso's advice,
and that's don't be judgmental, be curious, and maybe expand
your horizons and try something that isn't from your big producers.

Speaker 5 (01:39:32):
On the Western Slope. There are a lot of small,
mom and pop producers.

Speaker 9 (01:39:36):
I talk about them frequently anytime I bring in I'm
doing a whole I'm doing two whole classes that I've
sold out on Colorado wines, which if anybody calls the
Wine Gallery right now, I'm opening up two spots in
the one thirty and the three o'clock classes, But you
got to call the Wine Gallery to reserve your spots.

Speaker 5 (01:39:50):
Because they are sold out. Otherwise, what's that phone number? Oh,
my gosh, you're you know, it's the Wine Gallery in
Colorado Springs and tell them, Crystal, just open how many
more spots too? In each class? Okay, but you have
to call.

Speaker 4 (01:40:02):
You can't do it online. Uh, now you know what
time it is?

Speaker 5 (01:40:04):
Now, it's time for the most exciting segment all the
radio of its kind in the world of the day.
Well done, Snide backed away so that I could I
did use I could use my command voice, Ryan Edwards?
Does it back away?

Speaker 1 (01:40:20):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:40:21):
Just kidding?

Speaker 3 (01:40:21):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:40:22):
Oh, here we go, all right?

Speaker 4 (01:40:23):
What is our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 5 (01:40:24):
Please?

Speaker 6 (01:40:24):
It's a wine dad joke?

Speaker 5 (01:40:26):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:40:27):
How do you determine how much wine to drink?

Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
Whatever's in my glass? I do not know.

Speaker 6 (01:40:34):
It's taking on a case by case basis.

Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
That's a good one.

Speaker 6 (01:40:37):
Is a good one.

Speaker 5 (01:40:38):
By the way, Crystal has information about the itask of wine,
her class.

Speaker 4 (01:40:41):
And everything on her blog.

Speaker 5 (01:40:42):
You can find that at my blog Today's jeopardy or
excuse me, oh, end of the day, you'll get. The
word of the day is a verb perry p A
r r y.

Speaker 4 (01:40:52):
Doesn't that mean something to do with sword fighting?

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
Counter?

Speaker 5 (01:40:57):
Yeah? The counter.

Speaker 7 (01:40:57):
Two basic meanings to perry can be to defend yourself
by turning away from or pushing aside a weapon, or
to evade something such as a question, especially by using
a clever response.

Speaker 5 (01:41:08):
We're giving ourselves credit for that. Yes, I feel like
we got there. What would I know this?

Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
And I'm so super excited that I know this answer.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
What was the title of Olivia Rodrigo's debut studio album,
Absolutely no idea sour, so good care It's so good.
You know I took fencing in college. Did you really
have never looked side? I bet amazing because you're constantly
in that little squat. I bet. Okay. Here is what
we're doing.

Speaker 6 (01:41:31):
Now, Jeopardy and category Okay, can you make sure.

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
I'm a fever?

Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:41:37):
I literally had a tiny tiny bit of wine too,
but like she was barely a tasty should be just
a little bit. She's already plastered having been drinking prepping
for Chicago. The category is say it with chocolate? Say
it with chocolate?

Speaker 10 (01:41:49):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:41:49):
I feel like either of us is god go either way.

Speaker 7 (01:41:52):
The bitter native drink Chaco Latti, had sugar added to
it by these sixteenth century or the wroteenth century conquerors.

Speaker 5 (01:42:03):
Crystal who are the Spanish?

Speaker 1 (01:42:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:42:08):
From Keysta Doors, From Keysta Doors is what I would say.

Speaker 6 (01:42:11):
Okay, you determined as you get credit. It's the Spaniards.

Speaker 5 (01:42:14):
Oh yeah, I'll give her that. I'll give her that and.

Speaker 6 (01:42:19):
No making sure. Okay, so let's.

Speaker 5 (01:42:25):
Wonder one.

Speaker 7 (01:42:26):
Yes, it might ring a bell that these chocolate cakes
from Hostess debuted in nineteen.

Speaker 5 (01:42:30):
Oh dang it, what are ding Dong ding Dong?

Speaker 6 (01:42:35):
Charlie Bucket is the title character?

Speaker 4 (01:42:38):
It was Willy Wonk on.

Speaker 7 (01:42:39):
The Chocolate Factor. What in this nineteen sixty four children's
book You're gonna hate yourself? Come on, Charlie and the
chocolate factory?

Speaker 5 (01:42:53):
What did I say?

Speaker 6 (01:42:54):
You said, will w Willy Wonk?

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
Oh? My god?

Speaker 11 (01:42:56):
Man?

Speaker 7 (01:42:57):
Anyway, anyway, it's a Disasterly it meant coffee that came
from Yemen.

Speaker 6 (01:43:02):
Later it came to mean coffee flavored with chocolate.

Speaker 4 (01:43:05):
Manny, What is Mocha?

Speaker 6 (01:43:06):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:43:07):
That one minus one.

Speaker 6 (01:43:09):
In addition to its famous square in San Francisco?

Speaker 5 (01:43:12):
What is Gia Deeli?

Speaker 6 (01:43:13):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:43:14):
Okay, I'm back to.

Speaker 4 (01:43:15):
Zero nothing solid win my pristol with two zero. I
just had to be quiet, but I did.

Speaker 5 (01:43:21):
I did manage to avenge my earlier stupid answers.

Speaker 6 (01:43:26):
You're cut up all right.

Speaker 5 (01:43:27):
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