08-23-24 FULL SHOW - We're Back and Kamala Could Be President

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 5 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, and welcome to a Friday edition of
the show Altogether. Now that air hit cup wait that
first air warn is how I feel today. I feel

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like I've been hit by truck a rod and I
got back last night.

Speaker 6 (00:51):
Yes, that is how I feel.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
That's how I felt like starting in the Monday and
then down. We got back last night at like ten thirty.
Watch the speech last night on the aeroplane and we
have those to talk about. But I think both of
us are feeling rather exhausted. I mean, I'm I'm way
older than you, Aerod, and I'm gonna tell you I
feel like I've been I've run a marathon in the

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last four days.

Speaker 6 (01:15):
It's been nuts.

Speaker 7 (01:16):
I felt pretty good this morning, and then ironically after
I drink a Red Bull to get even a little
bit more feeling good.

Speaker 8 (01:23):
Got it the other way. I'm not more tired. It
makes no sense.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
No it's a sugar crash. That's what you did to yourself.
You're sugar sugar free. Oh yeah, that's true. I guess
you're right about that energy. I don't know what's just
can of chemicals that sugar free Red bull. Anyway, So
today's the day that we can dish the dirt on
the Democratic National convention because I.

Speaker 6 (01:43):
Am no longer at their party.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
As I said all week, I was at their party
and did not want to pee in the punch bowl.
So today let the peeing commence. Anyway, let's do the
blog because I got a lot of stuff on the
blog that we need to talk about. And then next
week we'll get back to hopefully, I mean, actually, let me.

Speaker 6 (02:01):
Just say this.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
What I was about to say was next week we'll
get back to kind of a better mix of politics
and other stuff. Right, we have a little bit of
other stuff today on the show, but I can't say
that because we are in the most insane election cycle
that I have ever experienced in my lifetime, and anything
could happen, right, I mean, anything could happen.

Speaker 6 (02:23):
That's how I.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Feel now, because right now we live in a world
where the Democratic Party just had a convention where they
just were like, Hey, you know what, we love everything
Republicans love. We love it all even though everything in
their policy says otherwise. We're gonna get into this a
little bit. Let's go to the blog. You can find
it at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look

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for the headline that says eight twenty three to twenty
four blog We're back and Kamala could be president.

Speaker 6 (02:52):
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within and.

Speaker 9 (02:55):
Anyone's listing office.

Speaker 7 (02:56):
Half of American all with ships and clipments, and say
that's corta press plant.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
Today on the blog. It's an ask Me Anything Friday.
Kamala Harris knocked it out of the park last night.

Speaker 6 (03:07):
Scrollings, scrolling, scrolling, Just who is running.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
The country right now? Oh geez, I have to scroll
all the way down because I invented all of Donald
Trump's reaction posts from yesterday. Just who is running the
country right now? Representative Lisa Prazzell joins me to talk
about the special session next week, an event for the
over sixty five crowd. Democrats now write their own rules,
both nationally and at the state level. Scrolling, scrolling, PBR

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has moved and that's no ball about that massive jobs
number correction. No, Democrats are not the Party of freedom,
nerdy population facts for you. Most climate policies don't work.
The Taliban Biden empowered subjugates women. More good food at DIA,
epic or icon pass Lots to do in Colorado this weekend.

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Asking Kamala Harris supporters about why she has their support.
Asking Tamala supporters about policy positions. John Stossel gives us
Kamala Unfiltered Poverty and parents explain the achievement gap.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
Chick fil A is adding a new product to the lineup.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Police made the top cringiest moments from the DNC vibe
check RNC versus DNZ. Those are the headlines on the
blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And as I said, you
feel free, you ask thro VR text line five six
six nine zero. You just shoot that over to the
Common Spirit Health text line. And I am going to

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answer these questions so because I've already got them coming in,
because we were we were observers a rod. That was
what I viewed my role as observing, allowing the Democrats
to make their case. And I have to give a
lot of credit to the Democratic Party whoever planned the
DNC because it was equal parts anti Trump and equal

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parts fluff, and.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
They had musicians playing.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
I believe that they leaked a rumor last night that
Taylor Swift or Beyonce were going to appear so young
people would watch the convention. I honestly believe that, because
that's what I would do if I wanted young people
to watch the convention. I'm saying, you know what, you
know who's going to be there. Taylor Swift is going
to perform tonight or Beyonce is going to perform tonight.
And it didn't happen, but they probably got more young

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eyeballs because of it. And last night Kamala Harris gave
a speech in which she appeared to be incredibly likable.
For some reason, she told her story again, even after
it's been told like fifty times during the convention, she
told it again. But she was engaging, she was likable,
and she delivered that speech incredibly well. So when I

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say Kamala Harris knocked it out of the park, I
am talking about she knocked it out of the park
to the people that are the low information voters. I
think Rischlimbah really nailed it when he coined the term
low information voters. There are people that watched last night
for five minutes and we're like, Nope, she's my girl.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
Listen to her. She's so positive that joy I can't
the vibe is so good, and they're going to vote
for her based on that.

Speaker 9 (06:16):
Now.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
I say that because realistically, you guys, the Republican Party
has five weeks from today to rewrite the story of
Kamala Harris. They have five weeks from right now, because
in five weeks, ballots start dropping across the country, and
once ballots drop, it doesn't matter how you define your

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opponent because people will have already cast their votes. This
is one of the things I hate about early voting.
I mean, I really hate it about early voting because
people will cast their ballots and like in the primary,
you'll cast your ballot and somebody will drop out before
your actual primary day and your vote is just for
no one, absolutely no one. So I don't like early voting.

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But the reality is is that the Republican Party has
about five weeks to redefine Kamala Harris or define her
positions for her, which is the strategy I think they
have to adopt because the news media has proven itself
to be wildly uninterested in forcing the issue of why
she hasn't had a press conference, why she hasn't sat

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down for a lengthy interview except with Tim Walls, and
they're like, you know what, there's just so much of
a vibe going on right now.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
We don't need any meat on the bones. It's a vibe.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Kamala Harris is the candidate who is Obamacare. We have
to elect her to find out what she's going to do.
And it is incredibly important that the Republican Party go
back and remind everyone of what she said she was
going to do when she was actually running for president.
You know, the thing that shocked me the most this

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past week, and I'll just be straight up, the thing
that shocked me the most was that literally no one
at all, at all, at anywhere was talking about the
fact that for the second time, party leaders in the
DNC decided who was going to be the candidate, not
the voters. Remember what they did to Bernie Sanders in

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twenty sixteen. They absolutely decapped him, and this time they
didn't even recap the opponent.

Speaker 6 (08:23):
They didn't let anyone else in the race.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
They are still still right now today they are fighting
in court to keep RFK Junior off the ballot in
different states because they don't want you to have options.
They don't even want you to have the candidate that
you voted for. And they who exactly who were the
deciders who named Kamala Harris the candidate? I'd love to

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know the answer to that question. Where was the meeting,
When did it take place? Was it open to Democrats?
Did they have a discussion, were other candidates talked about?

Speaker 6 (08:55):
No, none of these things happened.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
So we have Democratic Party leadership that is just deciding everything,
and then you have a willing news media who is
doing the bidding for Kamala Harris. Whether it is the
choice by certain journalists who only cover the DNC and
not the RNC. You can just figure out who I'm
talking about there. I mean, just you know, or it

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is the absolute unseeriousness of them just accepting that a
major candidate, actually the most big candidate right now leading
in the polls, has released one policy position one.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
One.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
That's where we are right now. So yeah, but Republicans
better get their heads out of their asses. Because Donald
Trump has no discipline at this point. Donald Trump needs
to be rained in. He needs to be put on message.
And if you want to see a perfect example of that,
I want you to go back and watch Donald Trump's
acceptance speech, which for the first twenty three minutes was
rivening because he talked about being shot, and for the

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next hour was a rambling mess. And last night Kamala
Harris stayed on message. She stayed on point, in out
in thirty seven minutes. Nobody was yawning, nobody was falling asleep.
That's how you do an acceptance speech at a convention.
So somebody needs to rein in Donald Trump's worst instincts.
They need to be hammering the fact that she is
a full blown leftist progressive bordering on socialism, which she

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talks about things like the government needs to build more
affordable housing. No, that is not what needs to happen. No,
she never talks about unleashing the American economy. She talks
about government doing these things. It's terrible, I mean absolutely terrible.
So let me get some of these questions, because there
are a bunch they are coming in. Are you not

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going to cover RFK dropping out coming up in a
few I absolutely will. But I googled that this morning
and I didn't have a time, I didn't have a place.
There was nothing about it in the news this morning.

Speaker 6 (10:54):
So as soon as that.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Happens, and if he endorses Trump, I will absolutely talk
about that. We've talked about it throughout the week. As
soon as the news broke, we talked about it. I
don't know that it's a huge positive if he endorses Trump,
but every little bit helps because I do think this
election is going to be very, very close. Mandy, if

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you missed Chicago Beef hot Dog, Chicago Mike's Beef and
hot Dogs on Briarwood Avenue, I've only had their beef.

Speaker 6 (11:23):
See they have thin.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Crust pizza two. Okay, good, I'll take that. It was
all Trump fear pandering, says this texter.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
It was all Boogeyman Trump Project twenty twenty five and
the Republicans rejected a bipartisan border deal.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
And do you guys realize that all of those talking.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
Points are self inflicted wounds by the Republican Party. The
Heritage Foundation under Kevin Roberts, has made so many critical
errors that have absolutely derailed their mission, which is to
put conservative policy positions forward by presenting Project twenty twenty
five as a hey, we've created this guide for your

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first year in office, and attaching themselves to Donald Trump,
they could very well be the reason he loses this election,
among other things.

Speaker 6 (12:15):
So we got that. We have Mitch McConnell, who sends
a one Republican in the.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
Negotiated deal who's not up for reelection for six years.
Mitch McConnell knows that there is a huge section of
the United States that wants cheap labor from over the
southern border.

Speaker 6 (12:32):
He was coltowing to them.

Speaker 5 (12:33):
He set him up for failure, and now they've given
them the talking point that Republicans are the problem on
the border.

Speaker 7 (12:38):
Yes, a roy and he by the way it looks
like right now, and I think we probably will be
able to carry it if it happens during a good
time in the show. It looks like RFK is going
to address the nation in moments and Fox News is
CG says right now, RFK Junior speaks the mind reports
he'll drop out, And previously, just a few moments ago
they had mentioned about the reports about him endorsement Trump.

Speaker 8 (12:56):
So he's scheduled to talk any minutes, so we can
carry that.

Speaker 6 (12:58):
We will, we'll grab it. If we can't, we will
will grab it and see if we can cover that.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
So again, I don't know if it's a game changer,
but clearing the decks does help in the long run.
The Democrat the Democratic Party is so fake. They became
patriotic gun police wall lovers overnight.

Speaker 6 (13:16):
Exactly right, exactly right.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
They're they're trying to just steal the Republican issues that
Republicans have been banging the drum about, and they're doing
it to appeal to moderates who don't like Donald Trump.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
And you know what, it might work.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
It just may work. Somebody said on one of my posts. Yeah,
they're getting ready to steal the election. If you think
there is not enough hatred of Donald Trump to get
Kamala Harris into the White House, you are just being
willfully ignorant.

Speaker 6 (13:49):
People that don't like Donald Trump just don't like him.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
They hate him, and they're looking for anybody that seems
reasonable to vote for. Ah, Mandy, what omen and or
person almost pushed you over the edge to say, bs
that is a lie? Wednesday Night Speaker after speaker after speaker,
and when Governor Jared Polis stood up there with that

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asinine copy of the Damn Project twenty twenty five book
and blatantly lied about what was in it, that was
for me.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
I was like, I'm done out.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
I cannot do this because I know Jared Pulus well
enough to know he is an incredibly intelligent person, so
he knew what he was saying.

Speaker 6 (14:32):
Up there was a lie.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
He did it anyway to suck up to the Democratic
Party because he wants to be president. Liar liar, pants
on fire. Mandy, did you enter a pie in the
state fair competition this year? I did not, mostly because
I was going to be gone This week. Mandy Polis
blamed Trump for the COVID mandate in Colorado. Yes, I
heard that. He said it on my show, but because
I was being on my best behavior allowing you to

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hear directly from the Democrats' mouths without interruption.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
Let it go.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
But you all know, you all know exactly what happened
when he told you that you were going to kill
Grandma and wear a damn mask.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
Remember that.

Speaker 8 (15:08):
How dare you not challenge what on your show? Would
they say something you disagree with.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
When I was at their house, I didn't want to
pee in their punch bowl. Now I am not at
their house, and now I am peeing away. Rhetorically, you must.

Speaker 7 (15:20):
Attack at all times, though, Mandy, one hundred the time attacking.

Speaker 6 (15:24):
I know, I know, I know, but that's not how
I roll and never will. Just not not how I
do things. And I really wanted to have.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
The same experience at the at the u DNC that
I had at the RNC, which is just letting people
talk and letting you make up your own minds, right,
I mean, I just think that that's the way that
we should be doing things. I also trust this audience
and I trust you guys to hear the same things
I hear. Right, I think you're smart. I don't need

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to walk you through, you know, a word by word
of what you should think like other people do. I'm
just saying, let me see here, trying to get this
to update, and it won't all right, So lots of
these are coming in and I'm trying get it was
a great speech to batter pants didn't catch on fire,

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says that text her Mandy. It was a group therapy
session for people who think they were hurt by Trump
before and think he's coming to hurt them again. So
I heard very well done Texter, Mandy, thank you and
the KAA team reporting was there. Was there the same
demonstrations that the RNC as we saw at the DNC. No,
there was one demonstration. It was called march on the RNC.

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They said tens of thousands of people were gonna come.
It ended up being tens of people and the.

Speaker 9 (16:43):
The the so called.

Speaker 6 (16:45):
Protests that were expected at this did not materialize.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
Although did you see a rod that apparently last night
as people were trying to leave, Palestinian protesters were standing
in front of the ride share cars. Can you imagine
how angry everyone was at that? Oh boy, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you guys, after the after the convention is over, everyone,

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so thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people
pour out into the streets, a vast majority of whom
we're trying to get a ride share.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
It was.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
It was pretty remarkable, uh, the way they had that
set up, and it seemed to work pretty well. We
of course just had to walk back to our abode,
which was right down the street. It was fantastic, let's
do this let's take a very quick time out. I'm
going to organize these questions a little bit and we're
gonna just wait and see if RFK drops out, we

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will cover that for you because I also want to
hear it.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
And uh so we'll get that as we do.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
But we got to take a quick time out and
get some news, traffic and weather back after this. We
were just talking about this off the air, and and
you know what was offered to r f K Junior,
because all of this stuff, all these endorsements are very transactional,
right so uh and and A Rod said, well, do
you think that Kamala Harris.

Speaker 6 (18:02):
Said, you know, didn't offer it.

Speaker 5 (18:04):
I don't think that the Democrats are concerned at all,
well maybe a little bit about about him endorsing Trump
because they didn't think it would happen. They've been working
very diligently to just keep him off the ballot.

Speaker 8 (18:17):
Well, the Democratic what was that bluff?

Speaker 5 (18:20):
Called yes, exactly, So we'll see what this means. But
you just said something A Rod I thought was kind
of interesting. A Rod said, now I don't even have
the chance to consider voting for him, right, like like
that was going to be your respite in the storm
if you can't figure out a way to vote for
either of these and uh yeah, I think a lot
of his followers are going to be super mad.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
I think super super mad. So where they end up,
I don't know. I have no idea.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
Those votes kind of null and void because those that
maybe were considered voting for him just don't vote, and
then it just doesn't matter at the end of the
day because it was either an RFK vote or no vote.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
At the end of the day, I think some of
them will take their marbles and go home and leave
it blank. I do think that it really depends on
how much they hate Trump, and you know, whether or
not they can stomach voting for Kamala Harris not knowing
anything about what she would be like as a prisondent
because we don't know. Let me rip through some of

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these text messages because there is a lot of them,
and I want to get this to you, Mandy. I
don't think low information voters are confined to the Democratic Party.
I would almost say party affiliation these days is probably
more assigned that you're a low information voter than paying
attention as an affiliate unaffiliated voter depends on who you

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are in the party, right, you know? I mean there
are people in the that are very active in both
parties that are that are passionate about this stuff. But
I agree they are low information voters on both sides.
There are also a lot of low information voters that
are affiliated. There's a reason they're unaffiliated because they can't
pick a side. Mandy, did you happen to bring back.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
Anything cruss pizza from Chicago?

Speaker 3 (19:56):
No?

Speaker 5 (19:57):
I got stymied because a Rod and I we have
this this momentary flash of hope that we'd be able
to get on an earlier flight, and then we got
into Chicago traffic, and that hope was dashed into the dust,
absolutely into the dust. So no, I didn't get more
thin Crest pizza, but I also didn't.

Speaker 6 (20:18):
Make the earlier flights.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
It was just complete wash and super irritating, and I'm
very unhappy about that anyway, Mandy man Baby Trump responds
in real time during Kamala's speech.

Speaker 6 (20:29):
Where's Hunter?

Speaker 5 (20:30):
By the way, Doug m Hoff is the one who
had the affair with the nanny, not Waalts. Yes, I
clarified that yesterday when I just had the wrong name
in my head and Honestly.

Speaker 6 (20:41):
The exhaustion had just fit in.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
How are we supposed to compete with people that all
they do is lie? And worst of all, the sheep
believe it.

Speaker 10 (20:49):
You know.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
I saw an interesting comment about Trump lying versus Kamala
Harris lying and the Democratic Party and the kind of
lying they do, and I'm gonna have to say I
agreed with it. Trump lies about dumb crap that doesn't matter.
He lies about self aggrandizing, hyperbolic just to make himself
look better. But I cannot have I cannot think. And

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I thought about this after I saw this comment on
X yesterday. I was trying to think about things that
Donald Trump just blatantly lied about when it came to
important issues, and I could not think of them. Maybe
there are, and if you want to text them to
five six six nine, oh please do. But Kamala Harris
and the Democratic Party lied about a bunch of stuff

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last night and the night before.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
They're this lying about Project twenty twenty five. Is genius
on their part.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
I mean genius because nobody's gonna read a nine hundred
page document and all these people are just gonna assume
that what they're saying is true.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
It's a really smart move.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
She doesn't even have policy positions on our website, but
there's a nine hundred page pdf you can download on
the Democrat page. Because they don't want you to pay
attention to them. This is all look over you, look
over here.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
That's all the whole convention was. Look over here. Don't
ask us look over there. Oh yeay, yay. It was
really really, really bad. Let's see, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
It is not true that the Republican Party has been
railroaded by Trump's threats to primary them if they don't
bow to the king. Adam Kenzinger's speeches are always impressive
and on point. Adam Kenzinger needs to just become a Democrat.
I mean, he just needs to stop pretending that he's not.
And I'm just gonna say this about the Republicans who
showed up at the Democratic National Convention to talk about

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why they couldn't vote for Trump. They are officially useful idiots,
because if you're a real Republican and you know anything
about the policies that Kamala Harris espoused when she ran
for president the first time, you cannot support that ticket.

Speaker 6 (22:53):
You just can't.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
So they all became useful idiots by talking about how
they could not get behind Trump.

Speaker 6 (23:00):
And I understand it, I truly do.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
You guys know this, But I would never appear at
a Democratic Convention to say that.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
I just wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
There's a big difference between complaining about Donald Trump as
a Republican and quite another than appearing at a DNC
to support people that are espousing And we will do
everything that you find to be horrible for the United
States as I do. Big, big, big difference. We're going
to take a quick time out. We're gonna hear from

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RFK Junior hopefully right when we get back.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
Stick around. We're coming right back on KWA keep everybody waiting.

Speaker 10 (23:36):
Sixteen months ago, in April of twenty twenty three, I
launched my campaign for President of the United States.

Speaker 9 (23:43):
I began this journey as a Democrat, the party my father,
my uncle, the.

Speaker 10 (23:49):
Party which I pledge my own allegiance to long before
I was old enough to vote. I attended my first
Democratic Convention at the age of six in nineteen sixty
and back then, the Democrats were the champions of the
Constitution of civil rights. The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship,

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against colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars. We were the party
of labor of the working class. The Democrats were the
party of government transparency and the champion of the environment.
Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and

(24:36):
corporate power.

Speaker 9 (24:38):
True to its name, it was the Party of democracy.

Speaker 10 (24:42):
As you know, I left that party in October because
it had departed so dramatically from.

Speaker 9 (24:48):
The core values that I grew up with. It had
become the.

Speaker 10 (24:52):
Party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharm a, big tech,
and big money we wanted abandoned democracy by canceling the
primary to CEO the cognitive decline of the sitting president.
I left the party to run as an independent.

Speaker 9 (25:16):
The mainstream of American.

Speaker 10 (25:18):
Politics and journalism derided my decision. Conventional wisdom said that
it would be impossible even to get on the ballot
as an independent because each state poses an insurmountable tangle
of arbitrary rules for collecting signatures. I would need over
a million signatures, something no presidential candidate in history had

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ever achieved, and then I need a team of attorneys
and millions of dollars to handle all the legal challenges
from the d N. To say the naysayers told us
that we were climbing a glass.

Speaker 9 (25:56):
Version of Mount Impossible.

Speaker 10 (25:59):
So the first thing I want to tell you is
that we prove them wrong. We did it because, beneath
the radar of mainstream media organs, we inspired a massive
independent political movement.

Speaker 9 (26:11):
More than one hundred.

Speaker 10 (26:12):
Thousand volunteers sprang into action, hopeful that they could reverse
our nation's decline. Many work ten hour days, sometimes in
blizzards and blazing heat. They sacrifice family time, personal commitments,
and sleep month after months. Energized by a shared vision
of a nation yield of its divisions, they set up

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tables at churches and farmers' markets.

Speaker 9 (26:40):
They canvas door to door.

Speaker 10 (26:42):
In Utah and in New Hampshire, volunteers collected signatures in snowstorms,
convincing each supporter to stop in the frigid cold, to
take off their gloves, and to sign legendly. During a
heat wave in nevadaim And a tall, athletic volunteer who
cheerfully told me that he had lost twenty five pounds

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collecting signatures and then one hundred and seventeen degree heat.
To finance this effort, young Americans donated their lunch money
and senior citizens gave up there part of their social
Security checks. Our fifty state organization collected those millions of
signatures and more. No presidential campaign, any political American political history,

(27:28):
has ever done that, And so I want to thank
all of those dedicated volunteers and congratulate the campaign's staff
who coordinated this enormous logistical feat. Your accomplishments were regarded
as impossible. You carried me up that class mountain. You

(27:50):
pulled off a miracle. You achieved and all the puntinents
said could never be done. You have my deepest gratitude,
and I'm never going to forget that, not just for
what you did for my campaign, but for the sacrifices
you made because you.

Speaker 9 (28:08):
Love our country.

Speaker 10 (28:10):
You show to everyone that democracy is still possible here.
It continues to survive in the press and in the
idealistic human energies that still thrive beneath the canvas of
neglect and of.

Speaker 9 (28:24):
Official and institutional corruption.

Speaker 10 (28:28):
Today, I'm here to tell you that I will not
let allow your efforts to go to waste. I'm here
to tell you that I will leverage your tremendous accomplishments
to serve the ideals that we share. The ideals of peace,
of prosperity, of freedom, of health, all the ideals that

(28:48):
motivated my campaign. I'm here describe the power forward you've
opened with your commitment and with your hard labors. Now
in an honor system, I believe that I would have
won the election in a system that kind my father

(29:09):
and my uncles thrived in. The system was open debates
with their primers, with regularly scheduled debate with their primers,
and with a truly independent media, untainted by government propaganda
and censorship. In a system of nonpartisan courts and election boards,

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everything would be different. After all, the polls consistently showed
me beating each of the other candidates, both in favorability.

Speaker 9 (29:40):
And also in head to head matchups.

Speaker 10 (29:43):
But I'm sorry to say that while democracy may still
be alive at the grassroots, it has become a little
more than a slogan for our political institutions, for our media,
and for our government, and most sadly at all, for me,
for the.

Speaker 9 (29:59):
Democ Credit Party.

Speaker 10 (30:01):
In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set
itself to dismantling it, lacking confidence in its candidate.

Speaker 9 (30:10):
That his candidate could win in a fair election.

Speaker 10 (30:15):
At the voting booths, the DNC wage continual legal warfare
against both President Trump and myself. Each time that our
volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to
get on the ballot, the DNC agniscent to court state
after state, attempting to erase their work and to subvert

(30:39):
the will of the voters who had signed those petitions.
It deployed DNZ aligned judges to throw me and other
candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail.
He ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent
any serious challenge to President Biden. Then, when a predictably

(31:02):
bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden,
the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without
an election.

Speaker 9 (31:16):
They insold a.

Speaker 10 (31:17):
Candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped
out in twenty twenty without winning a single delegate. My
uncle and my father both relish debate. They prided themselves
on their capacity to go toe to toe with any
opponent and the battle over ideas.

Speaker 9 (31:37):
They would be.

Speaker 10 (31:38):
Astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who
like Vice President Harris has not appeared in a single
interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for thirty five days.
This is profoundly undemocratic. How are people to choose when
they don't know on their using and how.

Speaker 9 (32:01):
Can this look to the rest.

Speaker 10 (32:03):
Of the world. My father and my uncle were always
conscious of America's image abroad because of our nation's role
as the template for democracy, the role model for democratic processes,
and the leader of the free world. Instead of showing
us her substance and character, the DNC and its media

(32:25):
organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris
based upon well, nothing, no policies, no interviews, no debates.
I'm only smoking mirrors and balloons in a highly reduced
Chicago's circus. They are in Chicago history of Democratic speakers

(32:51):
mentioned Donald Trump one hundred and forty seven times just
on the first day. Who needs a policy when you
have Trump to hate? In contrast, at the RNC convention,
President Biden.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
You guys, we are going to butt in right now
to RFK Junior. We're gonna actually we're rolling.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
On this right now.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
Gotta tell you, I kind of agree with what he's
saying about the way the Democratic Party is treated him.
We'll do more of this on the other side of
the break. Keep it right here in news, trafficking weather
coming up next.

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Speaker 4 (33:35):
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Speaker 5 (33:46):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
We ran tate on our FK junior so we could
play it for you. Ay Rod, summarize what we're what
we're missing between when we cut off and.

Speaker 7 (33:58):
What we're going to He's basically continue you like you
like you heard him talk about the ways of the
Democratic Party has failed bull democracy and in his words,
basically saying that democracy is a slogan, which is which
is which is pretty strong and how you know, I
like we like we heard him talk about that there
should have been a primary, should had the opportunity, and
now he's leading into essentially what we assume here in

(34:21):
just mere moments, you're going to hear him him endorsing
President Trump.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
Go ahead and go to the By the way, I'm
getting a lot of comments, why does he sound like this?
He has a condition called spasmodic dysphonia. We actually talked
about it with my voice doctor, and uh, just so
you know, it's a it's a medical condition, not just
him being horse, go ahead and play his comments.

Speaker 10 (34:40):
Polling consistently showed that why he is staying on the
ballot in the battle ground states, I would likely hand
the election over to the Democrats, with whom I disagree
on the most existential issues censorship, war and chronic disease. Oh,

(35:00):
I want everyone to know that I am not terminating
my campaign. I am simply suspending it.

Speaker 9 (35:09):
And not ending it. My name. My name will remain
on the ballot in most states.

Speaker 10 (35:19):
If you live in a blue state, you can vote
for me without harming or helping President Trump or or
Vice President Harris.

Speaker 9 (35:28):
In red stage, the same will apply.

Speaker 10 (35:31):
I encourage you to vote for me, and if enough
of you do vote for me, and neither of the
major party candidates win two hundred and seventy votes, which
is quite possible. In fact, today our polling shows them
tying it two sixty nine to sixty nine, and I
could conceivably still end up in the White House in

(35:52):
a contingent election.

Speaker 8 (35:55):
But that's not going to happen in about ten.

Speaker 10 (35:58):
Battleground states where my presence would be as a spoiler.

Speaker 9 (36:03):
I'm going to remove my name and I've.

Speaker 10 (36:05):
Already started that process and urge voters not to vote
for me. It's with a sense of victory and not
defeat that I'm suspending my campaign activities. Not only did
we do the impossible by collecting a million signatures, we
changed the national political conversation forever. Chronic disease, free speech,

(36:28):
government corruption breaking, our addiction to war have moved to
the center of politics. I can say all have worked
so hard the last year and a half. I thank
you for a job well done. Three ka great causes
drove me. Damn It's race in the first place, primarily,

(36:48):
and these are the principal causes that persuaded me to
leave the Democratic Democratic Party and run as an independent
and now to throw my support the President Trump. The
causes were free speech, a war in Ukraine, and the

(37:08):
war on our children. I've already described some of my
personal experiencesn't struggles with.

Speaker 9 (37:15):
A government censorship industrial complex.

Speaker 10 (37:18):
I want to say a word about the Ukraine war
the military industrial conplex has provided us with a familiar
comic book.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
John, Okay, we're gonna We're gonna go out now. He
should have said all that before. But interesting, he's not.
He's not ending his campaign.

Speaker 6 (37:37):
He will be on the.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
Ballot in solidly red or solidly blue states, but he's
removing his name from the ballot in swing states. This
is fascinating to me because there's a zero percent chance
of what he said could happen. And you know, in
a provisional election, I can know you're not gonna wind
up being president. So he's kind of I don't know,

(38:01):
I mean, is he's splitting the baby here because he's
not going to say to his followers that I'm out.
But if you're an RFK person, we're not in a
swing We're not a swing state anymore. We're solidly blue,
solidly blue. Someone just pointed out, let me see here.

(38:22):
So Biden's stutter is fair game for ridicule. But RFK
has a medical condition, gotcha do better? Of course they
put you better, of course, of course. And to be clear,
I make fun of Joe Biden for being old and
adult and not being able to follow a teleprompter.

Speaker 6 (38:40):
But I've never made fun of his stutter. I don't
feel the need to.

Speaker 5 (38:44):
There's so much else to make fun of in that man.
By the way, he's on vacation again. I know you're
all gonna be happy to see that. Today on the blog,
I do have a story that asks the simple question, who,
who exactly is running the country right now?

Speaker 6 (38:59):
Because uh, yeah, Kamala obviously is not.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
And Biden went from a weekend in Delaware to decide
to drop out, a long weekend at Camp David to
relax and rest, and now five days in California to
relax and rest. So who exactly is running things at
the White House? I think that's a fair question, because
certainly we do not have that right there. Hey, hey, Rod,

(39:28):
I want to play this trum Oh hang on, sorry
about that.

Speaker 6 (39:32):
I want to play this.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
This happened at the RNC. Betty Johnson took his show
to the RNC and asked a bunch of people outside
the DNC or inside what they why they were supporting
Kamala Harris.

Speaker 6 (39:46):
So just just listen to this.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Trumper, Kamala What do you think Trump? Kamala Harris?

Speaker 9 (39:50):
Oh God, it's Kamala.

Speaker 8 (39:52):
Definitely yes, yeah, absolutely, what's.

Speaker 7 (39:55):
Your favorite thing Kamala done last four years?

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Honestly died?

Speaker 9 (40:02):
Actually, don't use.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
This, Yeah, Kamala why, well.

Speaker 8 (40:08):
She's.

Speaker 6 (40:12):
Okay, Well, I'm I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
I'm not super knowledgeable, so I can't really speak too
much on.

Speaker 6 (40:16):
It because Trump's sucks ass the pretty much same thing.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yep, yeah, what do you think?

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Do you know Tim Wallas he's telling shirts?

Speaker 6 (40:25):
This guy is holding on shirts, he's selling.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
I mean, I'm asking the same question, right, I've been
doing my research lately. Yeah, so I ain't got I
ain't a hundred percent yet, so I can't answer that.

Speaker 6 (40:34):
Trumper Kamala huggers he's selling shirt he was.

Speaker 7 (40:38):
What's your favorite thing about the last four years that
Kamala Harris been vice president?

Speaker 9 (40:44):
She was she was the president.

Speaker 8 (40:49):
Because she was the president vice president.

Speaker 7 (40:52):
Of course, that's a no braina right.

Speaker 6 (40:54):
She's a woman, she's a woman.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
How's it been selling?

Speaker 8 (40:58):
How's it been selling?

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Good shirts?

Speaker 6 (41:00):
And he says, not so much. We just had a
bunch of police tell us to burn our shirts. Yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 7 (41:14):
Do you not remember when regarding shirts? What happened to
us on the way back one night. No remember now
what happened that they were selling stolen T shirts?

Speaker 6 (41:26):
Oh my god, I forgot about that.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
So this guy has like a wagon and a little
card table and he's literally yelling at people as they're
leaving the convention.

Speaker 6 (41:36):
Stolen shirts twenty dollars. Stolen shirts twenty dollars. And I
was like, well, I guess advertising.

Speaker 8 (41:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (41:49):
We did not buy a shirt, though, So how effective
it was? You know, how effective was it?

Speaker 8 (41:53):
Really? I mean pretty effective? I thought of like half
a second more than I ever normally.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
Was you really were gonna like, I'll just buy the
shirt because it's stolen. I'm buying the hottest shirt in town.

Speaker 8 (42:04):
Marketing?

Speaker 5 (42:06):
Well, yeah, not that good, but yeah, he offered to
sell us. We offered to sell a stolen shirt, so
we got that going for us. I did not see
any political memorabilia that I wanted to buy. I bought
some buttons at the RNC because they were hilarious and
I shared them on my social media that that are
just really funny. And I didn't see anything entertaining in

(42:27):
the swag there. Did you see any of the crazy
stuff that we saw?

Speaker 11 (42:30):
Did you?

Speaker 6 (42:31):
I mean did you. I looked at a couple of swag.

Speaker 5 (42:32):
Tables, but I didn't really see anything, and they didn't
have a bunch of swag inside the event.

Speaker 6 (42:37):
It was it was kind of weird, you know, kind
of weird.

Speaker 8 (42:41):
Aperiance is your swag?

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (42:43):
Okay, the excellent Yeah, jo, So that you have inside
you is your swag?

Speaker 9 (42:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (42:49):
Let me let me go back to some of our texters.
It's an ask me anything about the d NC kind
of day. We're not going to talk about it anymore
after today because I'm tired of talking about it, but
I do want to answer some questions and you can
text us on our common Spirit health text.

Speaker 6 (43:04):
I have six six N I O, and let me
go down to where we are.

Speaker 5 (43:11):
Kamalo was strong when talking about prosecuting Trump and Republicans,
but comes across like a teenage girl when talking about herself,
swaying and tilting her head.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
This thing keeps updating.

Speaker 5 (43:23):
Hang on, Mandy, did you see the Denver seven fact
check on police's DNC speech. They must not have received
this stand down memo. I was very proud of Denver
seven for doing that. I mean very very proud, very proud.
Adam Kinzinger has to stay a Republican to stay relevant
the Democrat Party. Correct, Yes, yes, indeed, our ballots need

(43:46):
a none of the above option, and if that box
gets a certain percentage of the total vote, both parties
have to go back to the drawing board. There are
multiple European countries that have a no confidence option on
every ballot, and if you don't like either of the candidates,
you vote no confidence and the parties have to go
back and find someone else. Mandy, Seriously, I heard a
younger person say they prefer the Socialist Party and voting

(44:08):
for them.

Speaker 6 (44:08):
I asked why.

Speaker 5 (44:09):
They said, because they are very social not kidding, and
makes me wonder how many people think this? Yeah, how
far left has the Democratic Party? If JF or RFK
junior endorses Trump yep, yep, yep yep RFK for CIA director,

(44:30):
imagine a Kennedy with all those secrets. Really enjoyed your
coverage at both DNC and RNC. Thanks and darned you, Manny,
Thank you, you're very welcome. What fell out of Nancy's pants?
Apparently when Nancy Pelosi was walking up to the podium
something a note card is what it is, and I've
looked at the pictures like the Zuppruder film and it
was indeed a note card. So we will figure out. Yep,

(44:54):
you've convinced me.

Speaker 6 (44:55):
I'm going to ignore policy and vote for the vibe.
Thanks again.

Speaker 12 (44:59):
Not.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
I hope people who vote Harris get what they voted for.
A sad part is they inflict that on me. Alexa
has this great text, Mandy isn't an ironic. The DNC
theme was they are not going back yet. The most
prominent speakers were from the past. Great point, Alexa. And no,
Chuck did not go because he his head would have

(45:21):
exploded and he doesn't have the edit button that I have.
Just to let you know, it would somebody would have
gotten killed by Chuck. I mean maybe not, but somebody would.
There would have been a fight. There would have been
multiple fights, and that's why Chuck did not go. Says here,
I'll bet you mentioned I'll bet you that last voter

(45:43):
you mentioned calls yourself an independent but votes liberal all
the effing time.

Speaker 6 (45:49):
Quite possibly.

Speaker 5 (45:51):
Will the Democrats continue to keep Harris out of the
public eye if they can, If they can, more hookers
at the RNC or DNC. Hey, Ron, we didn't run
into any hookers. I feel like we've done something wrong.
No hookers, Mandy. I'm scared to death about Democrats being
in charge of our country for another four years. It's
like the last three and a half years did not exist.

(46:12):
But the Republican Party is in such shambles, and there
are too many people who absolutely hate Trump. I'm voting
for policies, but unfortunately too many people vote for the
person instead of the policies. And I'm sorry that when
I said Alexa, you're Alexa went off and I bet
I said a whole bunch more off. Yeah, Alexa, play kaway, Yeah,

(46:33):
Alexa play koway on iHeartMedia.

Speaker 8 (46:37):
On iHeartMedia.

Speaker 6 (46:38):
Yeah, there you go. And Andy, please describe the pizza
you had one more time. I'm hungry.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Here we go.

Speaker 5 (46:43):
It was a delicious Chicago thin crust pizza with roasted
tomatoes chopped up on it, a nice layer of soaprisetta
and then drizzled with hot honey. Oh my god, it
was so good, and little blobs of whipped ricotta on
each piece, and it was party. It was not cut
into wedges. It was cut into little pieces. And now
I want that to I want it to.

Speaker 8 (47:06):
As good as the Chicago Dog, though you know, the
Chicago Dog.

Speaker 6 (47:10):
Was outstanding, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (47:11):
They shouldn't sell swag because they don't believe in capitalists,
even though most of them are multi millionaires and a
fewer billionaires. Yeah, swag bag from the DNC would be
a clean needle and an at home abortion kit.

Speaker 6 (47:23):
I wish that that was Like, I wish that that
was just funny and not real. So yeah, I wish
that that was.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
I wish that was something that was actually not, you know,
not it's it's funny, but it's sadly accurate. Ryan Schuling
asked me yesterday when I was talking to him on
his show, what was the most disturbing thing at the
DNC and the abortion and vasectomy bus that had been

(47:57):
provided by Planned hairn Hood was really gross to me,
just gross.

Speaker 6 (48:06):
I mean, the vasectomy thing not that big a deal.

Speaker 5 (48:08):
A lot of vasectames can be reversed, not all of them,
but most vasectames can be reversed. An abortion, of course, cannot,
So there you go, Mandy. I tried a few times
to watch the convention but gave up. I couldn't make
it through the cringe. What was the cringiest thing for you.
Cringiest thing, cringiest thing, Aaron.

Speaker 6 (48:27):
What do you think the cringiest thing was?

Speaker 7 (48:29):
Was that something we saw in person or like after
the fact, like on TV or like a report or something,
because trying to think, I mean.

Speaker 8 (48:39):
A lot of the stuff with the with the Project
twenty twenty five prop was to be.

Speaker 6 (48:44):
It was just they were just lying. They were just
making stuff up.

Speaker 7 (48:49):
On making sure everyone knows how to pronounce Kamala's name
was a little a little a little cringey.

Speaker 6 (48:56):
Yeah, that was that was Yeah.

Speaker 8 (48:58):
With their nieces, that.

Speaker 6 (48:59):
Was Tama la la la. Let's all say it together.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
It was just you know, it's fine, Yeah, it's fine.
Can I get your feeling on rfkjun you're supporting Trump.
We talked about this a little bit when it kind
of broke earlier this week that this might happen. I
think the way he's doing it, he's trying to trying
to have his cake and eat it too, in that
he's not fully dropping out. He will be on the
ballot in red or blue states, but he's going to

(49:27):
remove his name from swing state ballots, and I think
that is maybe more confusing than not. If that makes
sense to you, guys like I don't know. We'll have
to see if it has any any I don't know,
any staying power if it ends up mattering.

Speaker 6 (49:48):
So there you go, Mandy, would you.

Speaker 5 (49:50):
Go back to Chicago for a vacation? Is it a
vacation destination? Absolutely? A Ron and I both loved it.

Speaker 6 (49:56):
We loved it.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
Yesterday we walked seven miles. We got up early after
a late night and we went and went to the Bean,
which of course is cloud Gate and we walked over
from the Bean over the Navy Pier, which was quite
the hike, but it was a lovely walk down the
waterfront and everything. We crossed the bridge over the Chicago River.

(50:19):
I mean it was, and the weather was glorious.

Speaker 7 (50:22):
I had thought about it, and I'm ready to make
it official. Chicago has the best food scene for me,
in the dustry, in the country.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
It was outstanding. Every single thing that we ate was
absolutely delicious.

Speaker 7 (50:33):
I've been to forty nine of the fifty states and
Chicago has the best food that I've had in the
entire country.

Speaker 6 (50:38):
Yeah, it was. It was outstanding. Outstanding. Mandy. Do you
mean the planned parenthood, spay and neuter bus.

Speaker 5 (50:44):
Yes, and Andy, that is what I meant right there, Mandy,
I did a project for the Obama DNC. There was
an escort liaison. Shut up, shut up, So there was
a pimp on the payroll. That's crazy, absolutely crazy, Mandy.
Did you notice that DNC speakers in Harris only talked

(51:07):
about Kamala's time as Attorney General as a prosecutor. Never
did they talk about her as a senator, And of
course they couldn't talk about her as VP. You would
never know that she was anything other than a prosecutor.
Exactly right, because what she's doing right now, and I
will say this, she took credit last night for everything
good that happened during the Biden administration, but she sure

(51:29):
doesn't want to actually have a conversation about what she
actually did, right Mandy.

Speaker 6 (51:35):
How much poop did you see on the streets? None?

Speaker 5 (51:38):
Zero?

Speaker 6 (51:39):
Ay Rod? How many encampments did we see?

Speaker 8 (51:42):
None?

Speaker 6 (51:43):
And zero?

Speaker 8 (51:43):
I don't even think any homeless. Maybe one homeless, maybe.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
One person laying in the park yesterday when we were walking,
but they didn't appear to have a bunch.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
Of stuff with them. It could just be somebody sleeping
in the park.

Speaker 8 (51:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (51:55):
They cleaned up Chicago really really well, didn't know Clinton
didn't pronounce her name wrong. Also, he did that.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
He slaughtered Kamala's name in his speech. He called her
Kamala over and over and over again. So obviously Bill
Clinton is a racist as well as.

Speaker 6 (52:13):
A horn dog. There you go, Mandy. I tried to
who was talking? Oh, hit it, I'm about to start speaking.
Oh he's about to start speaking. Everybody has to say
he's everybody has to say. Blah blah, blah blah blah.
Here we go.

Speaker 5 (52:31):
We will find out as he is accepting the sort
of nom or endorsement of.

Speaker 6 (52:38):
Donald Trump.

Speaker 10 (52:38):
We just had a very nice uh endorsement from RFK Junior.

Speaker 8 (52:45):
Bobby and I'll be talking about that.

Speaker 9 (52:49):
We're heading out right after this. We're going to be
going to Arizona. We'll be talking about that and a
lot of other things too. But I just want to
thank everybody, and I want to thank Bobby. Those very nice.
That was really a very answer. That's big. He's a
great guy, respected by everybody. So thank you all for
this incredible welcome we're getting.

Speaker 10 (53:12):
And I'm going to tell Abby here, the next time
we do this together, he's going to get me.

Speaker 9 (53:16):
A little light up here, gonna give me a little
light so you can read this a little speech. But
you know what it does, It makes you speak a
little bit less. So that's okay too. What I do
want to thank you all, and I want to thank Javier.
This is a fantastic restaurant and the reputation is as
good as it gets, as good as it gets. And

(53:37):
I'm going to come here next time to eat. Is
that okay? I will be doing that too. We have
with US Lieutenant Governor Stavros.

Speaker 5 (53:47):
Yeah, we're going to just go to break because when
we get back, we're changing gears completely for a moment.
There's a big event tomorrow in Glendale for well season citizens.

Speaker 6 (53:57):
Over sixty five. It's actually really cool. We're going to
talk to you.

Speaker 5 (54:00):
I lean about that next so stick around. We're going
to do some news, trafficking.

Speaker 6 (54:04):
And weather right here on KOA.

Speaker 5 (54:05):
It's the thirty fifth annual Salute to Seniors. It is
part of the Colorado Gerontological Societies thirty fifth celebration and
joining me now is the executive director of the Colorado
Gerontological Gerontological Society, Eileen Doherty.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
Eileen, welcome to the show.

Speaker 12 (54:23):
Nuns I'm happy to be here with you.

Speaker 5 (54:25):
First of all, what is the Colorado Gerontological Society. Let's
start with that.

Speaker 13 (54:31):
Long process organization that was established in nineteen eighty and
we work in three basic different areas. We work in education,
training and information. We work in some legislative public policy work.
And then we do some we don't call them.

Speaker 12 (54:50):
They're like not.

Speaker 13 (54:51):
Direct services in the sense that it's not like a
home care agency, but we like I have a grant
program to help people with dental services, and we volunteers
with telephone buddies, and we deliver Christmas baskets and holiday
baskets over the holidays. So we do some of those
kinds of programming, right. And then let's say we do

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some legislative work, mostly at the state level, that sometimes
we get drawn into the national stuff on Medicare or
Social Security as well.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
I think that's all incredibly important because I used to
sell Medicare supplements.

Speaker 6 (55:30):
This is where this is coming from, what I'm about
to say.

Speaker 5 (55:32):
And just at a point when some seniors, certainly not
all seniors, maybe have some trouble grasping things right, understanding
things complicated new, we throw them into the medicare system,
which is completely different and complicated. I'm glad you guys
work on that kind of stuff. Let's talk about the
thirty fifty and it will salute to seniors. What is

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this event all about?

Speaker 13 (55:57):
So it's an senior expo, if youll, and we've always
prided ourselves in making it a fun event that is
also then filled with lots of education, information and resources.
So there's entertainment, there's lots of games. There's lots of

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food vendors joining us this year, so there'll be a
lot of opportunity to just experience different things, play trivia,
play bingo. We're doing a new program this year called Triangles,
which is a math program, so there'll be.

Speaker 12 (56:35):
Lots of things to do.

Speaker 13 (56:37):
And we have about fifty different vendors that have joined
us with information on resources for seniors as well. So
they range the gamut from housing to medical alert equipment
to a wide variety of things home care agencies, et cetera.

Speaker 5 (56:57):
So pretty much anything you would need or yourself or
an aging parent. It sounds like you're going to be
able to get some information here at this event. Yes,
you're also giving away a couple of pairs of Broncos tickets.
I mean, you've got some fun stuff going on. Is
there going to be food? Is there going to be music?
Is it going to be a fun party?

Speaker 12 (57:16):
Be a fun party? So yes, Sprouts and Target and.

Speaker 13 (57:24):
Sam's Club are all donating snack kinds of food and drinks,
so there's lots of snacks and foods going on. There's
instrums candy, so we've got lots of good support from
the food vendors. There will be some entertainment. Eddie Kendrick
from Pork Collins, who's a guitar player, will be joining

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us with some country music. And then there'll be a
trio that will play like rock and kind of soft music.
As I said, there's bingo. Additionally, the Ronco tickets are
preseason tickets. There's also lots of drawings. Sprouts is giving

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away one hundred dollars a couple of hundred dollars gift cards,
as Giano's given away one hundred dollars gift card. UH
Waterway has given us five free car washes, both inside
and outside your car.

Speaker 6 (58:20):
I want one of those, miss yes, exactly.

Speaker 12 (58:23):
Enter toy, so sorry, it'll be available for somebody else.

Speaker 13 (58:28):
We also got a large number of candles and plants
and various things donated from Target, and so there'll be
lots and lots of drawings and different things to give
away Tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (58:40):
I put a link to the blog on my blog
at mandy'sblog dot com to your website so people can
sign up. Do you have to r s VP? Does
it cost anything to come? What does that process look like?

Speaker 13 (58:54):
You do not have to r s VP, it's suggested,
but at this like date, don't worry about it.

Speaker 12 (59:02):
The event is free.

Speaker 13 (59:05):
Additionally, we are at the Greek Events Center, which is
at forty six to ten East Alameda, so there is
parking on the Greek Events campus. Additionally, we have some
parking that's available at the Jewish Community Center, which is
on the other side of Dallias Street and Leedsdale, and
there's also parking at Augustana Lutheran Church in of Age

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is going to rotate their buses, so there'll be a
central place where you can get picked up and you
just park your car in one of those lots and
then they'll bring you up to the campus, so that
hopefully people will be able to navigate that easier. The
other thing I've forgot to mention in terms of things
to do, which again I wish I had wasn't running

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the show.

Speaker 12 (59:53):
But the Assumption Cathedral Church.

Speaker 13 (59:58):
Is going to be doing a guided tour of the
church with and if you have never been in the church,
there's an incredible amount of art and statuary there and
they're going to be running a tour of that, so
that's another feature. Additionally, Forny Museum of Transportation is going

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to be bringing four classic cars, so if you're into
old cars.

Speaker 12 (01:00:23):
Come join us and talk with the folks from forty
so there are lots of things to do. There will
also be a farmer's market. It sounds photo booth.

Speaker 6 (01:00:33):
Yeah, it sounds like a great way to spend a day.
I mean a great way.

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
It starts at nine thirty goes until three. I've got
a link to the website. The website is Senioranswers dot
org and from there it's very easy to find the
information about the event. Eileen, this sounds absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 6 (01:00:50):
I hope you have an.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
Absolutely smashing Saturday as you celebrate seniors at the thirty
five annual Salute to Seniors event.

Speaker 6 (01:00:58):
Thank you so much for making time for it.

Speaker 12 (01:01:00):
Hey, thank you how all your listeners can join us.

Speaker 5 (01:01:04):
All right, that is Eileen Doherty, thank you so much.
And that sounds like a very nice way to spend
a day with your with your folks. If your folks
are older, or maybe you're getting older, head on down
and get all that good information. Now, hey, Rod, how
about now we're trying to take care of a tech issue. Now, okay,

(01:01:25):
let's take a quick time out. We will be right
back after this. Kamala Harris said that she whispered, she
was the voice that whispered in Joe Biden's ear about
withdrawing from Afghanistan, essentially saying, yeah, do it. So I
just thought, in the spirit of you know, accountability for
hers and she implied that she was the one that

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kind of pushed that over the edge, thought we do
a little check in real quick in Afghanistan. I know,
we don't talk about Afghanistan much because it's gone back.

Speaker 6 (01:01:53):
To being a complete hell whole.

Speaker 5 (01:01:57):
But as long as they don't allow terrorists to launch
another attack on our country, what business is it of
mine if Afghanistan wants to be a hell hole?

Speaker 6 (01:02:05):
You know, I do want to share with you some
of the new laws that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:10):
Have recently been passed in Afghanistan thanks to the Party
of Women who decided to desert Afghanistan with no plan
to maintain security. The Taliban rulers have issued new rules
as part of its propagation of virtue and the prevention

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of vice laws. A new one hundred and fourteen page
thirty five article document has been seen by the Associated Press.
It's the first formal declaration of vice and virtue laws
in Afghanistan since the takeover. The laws empower the Ministry
of Vice and Virtue to be at the forefront of

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regulating personal conduct, administering punishments like warnings or arrest if
enforcers alleged that Afghans had broken the law. Article thirteen,
that's the fun one that relates to women. It says
it is mandatory for a woman to veil her body
at all times in public, and that a face covering

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is essential to avoid temptation and tempting others. Clothing should
not be thin, tight or short. Women should veil themselves
in front of all male strangers, including Muslims, and in
front of all non Muslims to avoid being corrupted. A
woman's voice is deemed intimate and so should not be

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heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public. It is
forbidden for women to look at men they are not
related to by blood or marriage, and vice versa. Article
seventeen bans the publication of images of living beings, threatening
an already fragile Afghan media landscape. Article nineteen bans the

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playing of music, the insportation of solo female travelers, and
the mixing of men and women who are not related.

Speaker 6 (01:04:05):
To each other.

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
The law also obliges passengers and drivers to perform prayers
at designated times. According to the ministry website, the promotion
of virtue includes prayer aligning the character and behavior of
Muslims with Islamic law, encouraging women to wear a job,
and inviting.

Speaker 6 (01:04:24):
People to comply with the five Pillars of Islam.

Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
It also says the elimination of vice involves prohibiting people
from doing things.

Speaker 6 (01:04:32):
Forbidden by Islamic law. So that seems to be going well.

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
You know, I remember back when the Taliban took over
and the New York Times had a story that was like, hey,
you know what, They're going to be awesome for women's
rights this time.

Speaker 6 (01:04:50):
Yeah, don't pay attention to what.

Speaker 5 (01:04:53):
They did way back then before we depose them and
actually instituted laws that allowed women to do crazy things
like be in.

Speaker 6 (01:05:02):
The streets and talk.

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
Like have jobs, go to school, crazy nutty stuff that
happened in the twenty years that we were running Afghanistan.
And I actually feel incredibly sorry for the women who
lived through those twenty years because now they have gone
right back.

Speaker 6 (01:05:21):
Talk about taking something back, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
But if past performance is any indication of future behavior,
and don't you always hear that on commercials for things
like financial services, past.

Speaker 6 (01:05:34):
Performance is not an indication of future behavior.

Speaker 5 (01:05:37):
Well, you can look at someone's past history and unless
they have, you know, fully explained their evolution of their
prior positions. And I'm just throw this out here totally unconnected.
Say candidate president or vice president Harris. She just a
few years ago wanted a bandfracking, was in favor of

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defunding the police. She actually urged people to donate to
a bail fund as they were burning Minneapolis down to
get them out of jail so they could burn more stuff.
She has had all these wild positions. She wants to
reimagine ice, get rid of ice. She wants to decriminalize
coming over the southern border at least.

Speaker 6 (01:06:14):
I mean back in twenty nineteen.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
So if you think you know past performance and statements
would be an indication of future performance, just keep all
that in mind. This person just asked, you think OnlyFans
Afghanistan will be successful.

Speaker 6 (01:06:30):
Hmmm hmm, yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
I do not know.

Speaker 5 (01:06:40):
Axios in Trump officials back away from the twenty twenty
Taliban peace deal after withdrawal.

Speaker 6 (01:06:49):
Chaos.

Speaker 5 (01:06:51):
So the Trump administration, from what I understand, was very
firm on leaving enough for is there to maintain stability.
And last I saw that was about fifteen hundred forces
was what they estimated they would need to have in
place just to maintain stability, and none of those were
left there, none of those. Biden used that as an

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excuse to follow through with the agreement. He said, we
don't want to fight with the Taliban, there would be
more troops required. And now Biden has blamed Trump for
the chaos in Afghanistan, saying the former president in bolden
the Taliban and left the insurgency group in the strongest
position militarily since two thousand and three. The reality is
is that we never decimated and defeated the Taliban, and

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for eight years of that. That was Barack Obama's job
for eight years prior to Trump. Just throwing that out there,
just throwing it out there.

Speaker 6 (01:07:49):
We will be right back it is. Ask me anything
about the DNC.

Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
After a flurry of questions, they've calmed down, So your questions,
new questions coming up next.

Speaker 6 (01:07:58):
Keep it right here on KOWA.

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Speaker 6 (01:08:26):
Welcome, well for welcome. We are working our way through
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Speaker 5 (01:08:32):
And at the beginning of the show, I said, okay,
let's have our last conversations about the DNC today. I
am no longer at the party, So if you'd like
me to pee in the punch bowl, just let me
know what you'd like to know about the DNC. You
can text those to the Common Spirit Health text line
at five sixty six nine oh. That's five six six

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nine oh. And I will answer those questions. Who the
heck is Congressman Joe the Goose. Is he related to
Bronco Bomber? Maybe Camil or I don't know, Oh, Camil
La Harris got it now? Joanah Goose one of the
members of the Colorado Coalition who totally never responded to

(01:09:15):
our request to come on the show. Hey, Rod, let's
threw some people under the bus real quick, okay, because
you reached out to every member of the Democratic Party
that is in the congressional delegation here from Colorado.

Speaker 6 (01:09:28):
And what were the responses.

Speaker 7 (01:09:29):
Well, obviously, like you mentioned, we had we had the
two senators on Senator to Hickenlooper and and we appreciated
both of those fantastic interviews.

Speaker 8 (01:09:36):
Governor Polis dot Buy as well.

Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
Appreciate that.

Speaker 7 (01:09:40):
Representative Peterson I believe did not respond at all. Let
me one hundred percent confirm that stand by. In the meantime,
I will tell you that it's Peterson Patterson.

Speaker 8 (01:09:52):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:09:52):
Week week of we could not find the right scheduling
for Representative Crow. There was an effort there, but it
wound up turning in to no appearance. That worked out
time wise, yep. And the same for Representative to Get
And I believe let me double check here, I believe
we didn't get Yeah, we got absolutely nothing from from

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Negoose's team.

Speaker 8 (01:10:15):
Representative ne Goose.

Speaker 5 (01:10:16):
Nothing, just crickets chirping. Couldn't be bothered to even.

Speaker 7 (01:10:19):
Say counting here we got one, two, three total emails
to no Goose's team, the initial email, all the details,
two follow ups and nothing.

Speaker 8 (01:10:30):
Same with Representative Patterson.

Speaker 7 (01:10:33):
And then it was crow and to get with week
of communication but cannot find the right scheduling time.

Speaker 9 (01:10:41):
Okay, there we go.

Speaker 14 (01:10:42):
Just letting you know.

Speaker 5 (01:10:43):
We were trying to get everybody on and as you heard,
I was very respectful. I let people make their points.
I didn't inject my opinion in any evident until Michael
Bennett said we needed a new agency. And then I
had to stop that nonsense. Right then I was like, no,
no more agencies. But then he said I could pick
one to get rid of. I chose the irs. He said, No,
this is how negotiations happened, people. This is what the

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back and forth is all about.

Speaker 6 (01:11:08):
Mandy. If you apply this is from the text line.

Speaker 5 (01:11:10):
If you apply past performance is an indicator of future
performance of Harris, you must apply that to Trump as well.
So we may have riots, incited, denigration of individuals, disrespect
for NATO, friendship with Putin, and, in Trump's words, a
dictatorship for at least a day. Right, Okay, I'll break
this down. I would go back to the time when

(01:11:32):
the economy was chugging along. I would go back to
an administration that was slowly but surely rolling back useless
regulations that are still on the books by passing a
If you pass a regulation, well you have to get
rid of two.

Speaker 6 (01:11:47):
I would go back to that.

Speaker 5 (01:11:49):
I would go back to a president who really wanted
to unleash all of our energy opportunities.

Speaker 6 (01:11:55):
I would go back to that.

Speaker 5 (01:11:56):
I would go back to a president who didn't necessarily
want to create edicts that tell me I have to
buy an electric car after a certain year. I would
absolutely go back to that. I would go back to
a lot of these things. And for Trump, disrespect for
NATO is comical. Do you know what Trump did with NATO?
Trump did with NATO what I have been asking anyone

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to do with NATO for like twenty years. Trump told NATO,
we are tired of being your unlimited piggybank for your defense.
And while you're providing all of these neat services for
your people. We are expected to end your crappy ass
countries if you get into any kind of trouble because you.

Speaker 6 (01:12:37):
Don't spend what you have committed.

Speaker 5 (01:12:40):
I don't even know how many years ago they were
not spending even two percent of GDP on their defense.
They were relying on us to take care of them.
And when Trump threw the gauntlet, guess what happened. Guess
who's spending more on their own defense NATO members.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
Huh.

Speaker 6 (01:12:57):
Imagine that if.

Speaker 5 (01:12:58):
Disrespecting someone is asking them to pay a bill they've
promised to pay, then disrespect away.

Speaker 6 (01:13:06):
Just disrespect away.

Speaker 5 (01:13:09):
And as for being Putin's friend, he certainly wasn't comfortable
rolling into Ukraine while Trump was president. As a matter
of fact, let's think we'll just go back and remember together.
Since we're all going back in time to remember past performance,
let's talk about all of the wars that broke out
with our allies connected to them during the Trump administration. Nope,

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there aren't any, are not Nope, Nope they're not there.
So yeah, Trump, You guys know how I feel about him.
It pains me sometimes to have to defend him. But
policy wise, there's no comparison, absolutely not. I got a
text message from a friend of mine this morning said, Mandy,
I'm beginning to think that the Republicans are trying to

(01:13:57):
lose this election because they know that on the trajectory
we're going with our debt, we are going to spend
ourselves into insolvency, which will lead us to a very
dark place in the United States of America. That's how,
by the way, that's how empires go out right, I mean,
they fall and then very dark times.

Speaker 6 (01:14:15):
The dark ages came after the fall of the Roman
Empire kind of thing.

Speaker 5 (01:14:18):
And I was like, I wish I could say I
thought you were wrong, because policy wise, what we do
know about Kamala Harris was so bad when she rolled
it out last Friday night that the media immediately stopped
talking about it.

Speaker 6 (01:14:30):
Do you know how many.

Speaker 5 (01:14:31):
Times I heard someone anyone at the DNC talking about
her ridiculous ideas to give people twenty five thousand dollars
for their first time only certain home buyers, by the way, certain,
not all. Only certain home buyers would get twenty five
thousand dollars to buy a home in a housing market
that is already distorted because of the already high levels

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of demand and low levels of supply. She is an
economic idiot, and Trump maybe a lot of things. And
he's a big spender too. I want to be clear
about that. We've got to get somebody serious about debt.
But all she's talking about is more giveaways, more spending.

Speaker 6 (01:15:08):
Let us do this for you. We're gonna take care
of you. I'll be your mam la.

Speaker 5 (01:15:14):
And yeah, I'll take Trump all day long over all
of that, even with all of his obvious and glaring flaws,
I will one hundred percent take those policies all day long.

Speaker 6 (01:15:27):
I can't wait.

Speaker 5 (01:15:28):
Until every single state codifies abortion into their constitution so
we can stop talking about it. And I truly believe
that that is going to happen, if not by next year,
surely after that, as politicians start losing races, as women
start saying, wait a minute, we want options, and like
it or not, this is a pro choice country we

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live in absolutely one hundred percent. So yeah, anyway, I
got to take a quick time out, be right back.
You can text me your questions about the DNA see
two five six.

Speaker 6 (01:16:01):
Six nine zero. We will get those when we get back.

Speaker 5 (01:16:04):
Keep it on Kowa coming up at two thirty, Representative
Lisa Frizzell is joining us. Not only did she used
to be Douglas County's county assessor, giving her special insight
into property taxes, she's going to give us a preview
of the upcoming special session where the legislature is going
to try and prevent us the voters from slapping some
significant handcuffs on them. So we'll get the latest from

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her about that in just a few minutes. I want
to answer some questions about the DNC. It has asked
me anything about the DNC. Now's your chance. We're not
going to talk about it anymore after today because.

Speaker 6 (01:16:39):
I'm done this one. Was the DNC really a clown
show as appeared on TV? It really wasn't.

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
And you know who was missing a red I thought
about this, yes, last night as we were flying home.
Do you know what we didn't see at the DNC
drag queens? We didn't see, Yeah, we didn't see any queens.
We didn't see any over the top. We didn't see
like a parade of trans people. I'm sure there was
trans people there. We didn't see the most extreme parts

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of the Democratic Party.

Speaker 6 (01:17:11):
And I thought that that was by design.

Speaker 5 (01:17:13):
The DNC was all designed to tell you that the
DNC is just like us, like like democrats.

Speaker 6 (01:17:21):
We're just the same. We're just like you. We love freedom.
Look at us wave a flag, look at us. We
wag flags too, just like you. And I think it.
Actually they did a really good job with that, a
really good job with that. So here we go. Let
me rip through some of these questions.

Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
Mandy, is it true that Trump is going to make
transgender illegal or take away transgendered rights?

Speaker 6 (01:17:47):
So it is just for trans kids?

Speaker 5 (01:17:50):
Okay, No, no, we're not making someone illegal because they're transgender.
What is being discussed right now, and not just by
the Trump campaign, is limiting access to medical gender affirming
care for children because the science is not there, the

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science behind transitioning.

Speaker 6 (01:18:15):
A young child without their.

Speaker 5 (01:18:19):
Ability to understand that you are making them sterile, possibly
unable to experience sexual joy, and making them a permanent
medical patient.

Speaker 6 (01:18:31):
You can't do that to children. So I don't know
what we're looking at.

Speaker 5 (01:18:35):
I'm hoping the medical you know, people actually decide that
the evidence is not there, because now after the cast
review in the UK, we do know that the evidence
is not there.

Speaker 6 (01:18:46):
And we're hurting people. We're hurting children.

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
And if you just look, if you google de transitioners,
you would be shocked at how many of these people
physically look exactly like women. You know, you look at them,
they look exactly like women. But they're heartbreaking stories of
what they've gone through that they now live with constant pain,
trying to be turned into cosmetically a woman. They're horrifying,

(01:19:11):
absolutely horrifying, and they're there. So no, they're not making
transgender people illegal. We're just looking at curtailing the mutilation
of children before they're old enough to make that choice
for themselves.

Speaker 6 (01:19:26):
According to Kamala, it would seem Trump has been in charge.
Time for a change.

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
No, it's a new way forward, a new way, new way,
even though she's actually part of the administration that's been
running things for four years, a new way forward. Kamala
is getting whiter and whiter every day. See her makeup.

Speaker 6 (01:19:47):
I don't think that's accurate.

Speaker 5 (01:19:48):
I think she still looks like a woman of Southeastern
and Jamaican descent. I thought she looked great, but I
got to tell you, I realize that stylists are telling
power suits like power suit, power suit but my god,
her clothing is boring, and I wish that they would

(01:20:09):
do something about that, at least a little bit. Hang on,
let me turn this so it only updates every sixty seconds,
so I can get these questions in before they roll through.

Speaker 6 (01:20:17):
Let me do this.

Speaker 5 (01:20:18):
Let me see here, Mandy, aren't we the current Aren't
we the largest energy producer in the world. Yes, we are,
but we have a whole bunch more energy that we
could tap into if you want to see a shift
in geopolitical strength. If we absolutely crank up the spickets

(01:20:40):
on oil and gas, we could drive down the cost
of energy, which is not ideal for energy companies, I
get it, But we could drive down the cost of
energy to a point that Russia would.

Speaker 6 (01:20:50):
Be severely, severely.

Speaker 5 (01:20:53):
Hurt because the vast majority of their economic output comes.

Speaker 6 (01:20:56):
From the sale of oil.

Speaker 5 (01:20:58):
We could uh newter some of the most I don't know,
irritating Middle Eastern countries that currently have a ton of
money because of their oil revenues.

Speaker 6 (01:21:11):
So uh yeah, there you go. Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:21:16):
Just saw a dude that went all in on the
broccoli cut died it green and everything.

Speaker 6 (01:21:19):
Oh no, you guys, stop it, stop it, stop it.
Stop it. Stop It look to me that instead of
abortion pills.

Speaker 5 (01:21:27):
And vasectomy freebies, I should have handed out ozempic. Never
seen so much beef in all my life. I am
going to disagree with that. And a Rod, I want
your opinion. I there, of course there was heavy people, right,
there's heavy people everywhere. I thought that the crowd looked
most for the most part, pretty fit.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:21:44):
It wasn't like a bunch of you know, it wasn't
a bunch of choky monkeys.

Speaker 5 (01:21:47):
There were some heavy people there, but overall I thought
the crowd was an attractive crowd, although I will say
the R and C was more attractive people traditionally like
in a traditionally attractive sense. I didn't know that, But
I don't think there was a bunch of people who
should have been on a zembic. Maybe you saw it
on TV.

Speaker 6 (01:22:07):
I don't know. Mandy and a Rod, two questions for you.

Speaker 5 (01:22:10):
Were you embarrassed as color Ridden's After Polis's speech, I
was angry. I was infuriated by his speech because he
knew he was lying. I knew he was lying, but
he still did it every way anyway, just making it sure,
you know, never doubt that Jared Poulis can jump right
into the political pool and play second.

Speaker 6 (01:22:32):
Playing thorns and roses.

Speaker 5 (01:22:34):
Can you point out the number one positive and the
number one negative from your experience at the DNC thanks
one by Wednesday night, listening to some of the speeches
was killing me, killing me the rose.

Speaker 6 (01:22:46):
I actually met some really.

Speaker 5 (01:22:47):
Nice people, very nice rank and file, nice people, people
in the media, just random people.

Speaker 6 (01:22:55):
The people there were very nice. We'll be right back.

Speaker 5 (01:22:57):
There is going to be a lot of stuff at
the Capitol and they're going to be trying to sort
out a property tax compromise that would lead to Michael
Fields from Advance Colorado. We talked to Christy Burton Brown
about this last week about what Advance because she's with
Advance as well, and they seem to feel confident that

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they are going to be able to strike a deal
that would inspire them.

Speaker 6 (01:23:25):
To pull these ballot measures off the ballot.

Speaker 5 (01:23:27):
And joining me now is a member of the House,
Colorado House who also has a lot of knowledge about
this particular issue because she was the former county assessor
for Douglas County.

Speaker 6 (01:23:37):
Lisa Frazzelle. Welcome to the show, and let's start there.

Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
Let's start with your experience as a counting assessor, because
your county of which I am a part, got crushed
by these property tax increases.

Speaker 6 (01:23:50):
Mine went up forty percent four d percent.

Speaker 5 (01:23:55):
So what do you bring as an assessor to this
conversation that made you think is lacking?

Speaker 15 (01:24:02):
Well, I mean able and Mandy, thanks so much for
having me on. It's great to talk to you today.

Speaker 14 (01:24:08):
You know, I bring a lot of kind of the
nuts and bolts detail understanding of how this process works,
this property tax property valuation process works. And so for example,
when we're talking about changing the rates the assessment rates
for non residential property, for some reason, I just think

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this is really unfortunate. The draft bill, and actually the
bill is, it's going to be introduced on Monday, bifurcates.

Speaker 15 (01:24:40):
Non residential property by class.

Speaker 14 (01:24:42):
So it gives one assessment rate for commercial property, another
assessment rate for industrial property, another assessment rate.

Speaker 15 (01:24:51):
For vacant land. And that is extremely.

Speaker 14 (01:24:53):
Confusing to people and especially those property owners, and it's
candidly just ridiculous. So I'm hoping too, I'm going to
be running an amendment to fix that. Hopefully the bill
sponsors will do that. Themselves that I don't actually think
that they're planning.

Speaker 7 (01:25:09):
On doing that.

Speaker 5 (01:25:10):
Now, you are a member of the Republican Party. You
are hopelessly outnumbered in the House of Representatives right now.
But have you been privy to any of the conversations
that are happening right now in advance of the special session?

Speaker 6 (01:25:23):
I have a story on the blog today.

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
That apparently the Democratic Caucus has been meeting quite often
in private, which I find very, very very concerning because
because of their majorities, there's a chance that anything that
comes out of those private meetings could end up being
the legislation.

Speaker 6 (01:25:41):
Have you been privy to any of those conversations. Is
anybody talking to you.

Speaker 5 (01:25:43):
From the Democratic Party and getting your input?

Speaker 4 (01:25:47):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:25:48):
Oh, well, okay, then I thought.

Speaker 5 (01:25:50):
There's going to be more of that answer, like, yes,
but it's early in the you know, And so do
you think they're going to be able to get this
compromise that I'm not even sure who negotiated this compromise
in the first place.

Speaker 6 (01:26:04):
I'm a little clear.

Speaker 5 (01:26:05):
I'm not clear on the history of where this sort
of compromise that we're taking to the special session came from.

Speaker 14 (01:26:12):
Yeah, so I think that's a great question, and it's
also one that I'm not completely clear on either. And
I apologize for my abrupt answer before, but literally no,
I have not done at the table in this conversation.
I was very much part of the conversation with two
thirty three, which passed on the last day of session.
Put my name on that bill because I believe that

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we were working to create a really solid framework. I
also didn't believe that it went far enough, but we negotiated.
Barbara Kirkmeer and Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer and I negotiated with
the Democrats really strenuously, and we were able to get
some great concessions for our citizens. It is really important

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to understand that we are in the super minority in
the House and almost a super minority in the Senate
with a Democrat governor, and so the change that we're
actually able to effect is not great. But we were
able to leverage.

Speaker 15 (01:27:12):
Everything that we could, and I was, you know, it
didn't go far enough that it was better than what we.

Speaker 14 (01:27:18):
Had, which was raised rising property taxes. Again, the thing
that's really and this is really important for your listeners
to understand, Nandy, is that Gallagher was repealed in twenty twenty.
That was a bill that the Democrats led, a referendum
coming out of the legislature that the Democrats led. They

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promised that they were going to work to replace it.
They have had four years to replace it and they
have not. They have created a band and they created
a band aid in twenty twenty one, they created another
band aid in twenty twenty two, and in twenty twenty
three we saw the disaster that was Proposition Hh. Yeah,
here we are, and so I am very frustrated listening

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to the Democrats today and all last week talk about
how they were being forced to negotiate with Michael Fields
and Colorado Concern.

Speaker 9 (01:28:14):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 15 (01:28:15):
If Michael Fields and Colorado Concern, who have been at.

Speaker 14 (01:28:19):
The table running initiatives in twenty twenty one to force
the Democrats to come to the table and Laura assessinaries
in twenty twenty two, they ran initiatives before the title
Board to get the Democrats to come to the table
at the end of session and again provide property tax relief.
They did it last year and we got Proposition ahh.

Speaker 15 (01:28:40):
They had to do it again. The only reason why
we have had any property.

Speaker 14 (01:28:44):
Tax relief from between today and twenty twenty is because
of Colorado concern and Michael Fields.

Speaker 15 (01:28:51):
And you know what we should be thinking for.

Speaker 5 (01:28:52):
I agree, and I find it a little challenging to
hear from people when Michael says, look, if they pass
this bill, as we've talked about it, then we're going
to pull these ballot initiatives.

Speaker 6 (01:29:04):
And a lot of people don't understand that. You know,
a lot of people are saying, well, we want to
vote on it, we want to vote on it. It
is not a sure thing. It is not a done deal.
It costs a ton of money.

Speaker 5 (01:29:16):
And if you don't think that, you are going to
be swamped with millions and millions of dollars in advertising
against these initiatives. They're going to tell you that if
you pass these, if you vote for this, we're going
to have to fire every teacher and every police officer
in our town. That is exactly what is going to happen.
So it is not a done deal. It is not
a sure thing. And if we can get a lot

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of what they're proposing, I'll take it one hundred percent.

Speaker 6 (01:29:41):
I will take it. So, Lisa, what would you like
to see come out of this special session.

Speaker 14 (01:29:46):
I want Actually, what the governor is asking for is
property tax relief for the citizens of Colorado.

Speaker 15 (01:29:52):
We need to improve on what we started with two
thirty three. We need to not have a lot of theatrics.

Speaker 14 (01:30:02):
We need to not have a lot of statement vanity bills,
which is happening. We need to get to work, do
this and get out. People don't understand. These special sessions
are expensive. They're very expensive, and so you know, we've
wasted enough taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 15 (01:30:22):
Let's move on.

Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
So are people filing bills unrelated to this in the
special session or are they filing bills they're somehow what
their version of what they'd like to have happened.

Speaker 14 (01:30:33):
Both we're seeing bills that are unrelated to the negotiated bill.
There are going to be anywhere from ten to twenty
bill additional bills that are introduced on Monday in both
the House and the Senate. One of the ones that
I find particularly frustrating is coming out of two very

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extreme Democrats. And what it does is it says that
the framework from two thirty three and this negotiated bill
only applies to primary residences.

Speaker 15 (01:31:11):
And I think that's fascinating.

Speaker 14 (01:31:13):
So it only applies to the primary primary residences and
everybody else, you know, has to.

Speaker 9 (01:31:21):
Pay more.

Speaker 13 (01:31:22):
Well, what.

Speaker 14 (01:31:24):
These are the people who who are dumputting down their
arms about affordable housing all the time.

Speaker 15 (01:31:31):
And what I apparently they didn't understand is this particular
bill will in and of itself raise rents.

Speaker 5 (01:31:38):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah yeah, And that sounds to me
like they're going after people with short term rental properties also.
Would they be scooped up in this higher tax rate? Wow,
that's really big. I know that the perception, and there's
probably some truth to it in the mountain towns that
the short term rental market has distorted the actual market

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for long term renters. But a lot of people who
own short term rentals, especially people who are retired. I
met someone fairly recently that owns seven short term rental properties,
and that is her retirement. That is the money that
she brings in. She gets a tiny bit from Social Security.
So if they go after her stuff, that is a

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huge hit. But I think that the perception is that
if you want a short term rental, you want a
second house, you're loaded over here and you can pay more.

Speaker 15 (01:32:29):
And that's the thing.

Speaker 14 (01:32:30):
So this has been a really hot topic in the
legislature of the last several sessions. And what people don't
understand is that seventy five percent of the short term
rentals are owned by Colorado.

Speaker 15 (01:32:42):
Residents, and the vast majority of them are second home ish,
but they are they pay.

Speaker 14 (01:32:51):
For themselves by short rentaling, otherwise they can't afford to
have this.

Speaker 15 (01:32:56):
And this is my neighbor next door.

Speaker 14 (01:32:58):
Who's daughter is really into ski racing, and so they
have a place up in winter Park and they go
out there as often as they can so that they can.

Speaker 15 (01:33:09):
Enjoy the beauty that is Colorado.

Speaker 14 (01:33:11):
But they can't afford that place unless they supplement it
with short term rentals.

Speaker 15 (01:33:16):
And that is the vast majority of those What the?
What the again?

Speaker 14 (01:33:21):
These unintended consequences if you shut down the short term
rental market. If my neighbor can no longer afford to
have that short termental because her property tax taxes go
so high, she has to sell it.

Speaker 15 (01:33:37):
The short term rental industry is.

Speaker 14 (01:33:40):
Largely responsible for affordable lodging in our mountain community.

Speaker 15 (01:33:46):
And so if you if you dry that up, that
is going to impact.

Speaker 14 (01:33:51):
Ultimately your sands tax base because you're not going to
have the tourists coming to.

Speaker 15 (01:33:57):
Enjoy our mountains.

Speaker 5 (01:33:59):
Lisa, I got a text here that said, are we
ever will we get what a minute? Is there a
chance that will bring us real relief this year? Or
are we still just talking about future increases?

Speaker 14 (01:34:15):
So for twenty twenty four, what has been proposed is
just essentially caring forward twenty twenty three's arrangement that the
Democrats crammed down our throats in special session last November.

Speaker 15 (01:34:29):
And then next year. Next year is a reappraisal year.

Speaker 14 (01:34:33):
We're looking at fairly flat valuation, very few increases statewide,
so we can expect to see slight decreases in property
taxes based on what we're talking about, and then the plan,
the hope is is that we will remain fairly stable.
We're not going to go down to taxes people paid

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two years ago.

Speaker 6 (01:34:56):
Okay, so my.

Speaker 5 (01:34:57):
Forty percent increase is going to be a forty percent
increase and there's nothing I can do about it.

Speaker 14 (01:35:02):
We would hope that it wasn't that much, but I
feel your pain. I also had a forty actually forty
five percent increase, so I know exactly and this is
the thing, and I get really frustrated with our local
governments because I was in the tax Commission.

Speaker 15 (01:35:19):
I actually just came from the tax Commission, the.

Speaker 14 (01:35:22):
Property tax Commission, and we're hearing from the special districts
that you know, they're going to have to leave, they're
going to have to lay people off.

Speaker 15 (01:35:31):
And that's just even with the deal.

Speaker 14 (01:35:33):
It's not even talking about Initiative fifty or one o
eight that's talking. They're talking about that here. And what
they are angling for is they want state backfill. And
we've been down this road. I am completely opposed to
the state getting into the backfield business or staying in
the backfield business because we've been doing that.

Speaker 6 (01:35:55):
Holy So let me ask you this.

Speaker 5 (01:35:56):
And then when we're almost out of time, I think
everybody listening is like, Okay, state local governments are going
to get a huge increase in the amount of money
that they are going to get. Yet they are now saying,
if we don't get that huge increase and only get
a really really big increase, we want the state to

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pay us the difference, even though they're already getting a
huge increase.

Speaker 6 (01:36:20):
Yep, Okay, that's just dumb. I mean, that's just really dumb.

Speaker 14 (01:36:23):
Well and further, this is the thing that really torts
me up is it comes out of the t So
these backfill dollars come out of tabor surplus, which should
be going where to us.

Speaker 5 (01:36:34):
Well, they're already given our tabor surplus away to everybody else,
all those groups that they've decided or should get my
money instead of me. I can't even talk about that.
That's infuriating, Lisa Frazille. Let's let's touch base next.

Speaker 6 (01:36:46):
Week if we could.

Speaker 5 (01:36:47):
I'll get with the Laurel and kind of get an
update on what's happening, if we could make that happen.
I appreciate your coming on the show today, and I
appreciate you trying to fight for me as one of
your constituents.

Speaker 6 (01:36:59):
And I hope that the Democrats listen.

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
That's all or I, you know, the Colorado people will
handcuff them in such a way that could be really
inconvenient going forward. So I hope the threat of that
hanging over them leads to real action you and me both.

Speaker 14 (01:37:15):
Mandy, thank you so much. I really appreciate your time
today and I would love to visit next week.

Speaker 6 (01:37:21):
Perfect. That's representative Lisa Frizzelle.

Speaker 5 (01:37:23):
She's also running for Senate, and I put both of
those links for her on the blog so you can
find out more information about that.

Speaker 6 (01:37:30):
So that's something we have to look forward to. Is
that Ryan Edwards who wants to play today?

Speaker 8 (01:37:36):
Yes, I mean I missed it all week, so listen.

Speaker 6 (01:37:38):
I know we didn't do it last week.

Speaker 5 (01:37:40):
I just figured it would be too to two, you
know what I mean, just complicated, so much stuff going on. Hey, Ryan,
really really appreciate you trying to help us out. We
did not remotely come close to making that flight because
we hit Chicago traffic.

Speaker 9 (01:37:54):
Plummer.

Speaker 5 (01:37:55):
Yeah, well we got in, We're like, oh excited, Okay,
we might know. We get on the interstate, it was like, hey,
why don't we sit here.

Speaker 8 (01:38:02):
For a while parking lot.

Speaker 6 (01:38:04):
Yeah, but I appreciate you trying to help us.

Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
Yeah, of course with that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:07):
So anyway, now it's time for the most exciting secment
on the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
It's kind in the world.

Speaker 9 (01:38:16):
Of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:38:18):
All right, alrighty, what is our dad joke of the day. Please, Anthony,
if you're.

Speaker 7 (01:38:24):
Lost in the woods, start talking loudly about politics, someone
will come to argue with you.

Speaker 6 (01:38:30):
That that's fantastic.

Speaker 8 (01:38:33):
Perfect.

Speaker 6 (01:38:33):
All right, Today's word of the day, Please a rod.

Speaker 8 (01:38:36):
It is an adjective adjective new fangled.

Speaker 6 (01:38:40):
Oh, that means new.

Speaker 5 (01:38:41):
It's like, you know, like a new fangled contraption we're confusing.

Speaker 7 (01:38:47):
Yes, specifically something that has been recently invented or developed,
and usually implies that this new thing is difficult for
some to understand, like the interwebs.

Speaker 9 (01:38:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:38:57):
I do not know the answer to this, but I'm
gonna ask it because of you might. In the Lord
of the Rings books and vies, what is the name
of the Elvin city where the Fellowship of the Ring
is first formed?

Speaker 7 (01:39:09):
It's Oh, my god, Sean Austin, come back from the
DNC and help me out.

Speaker 2 (01:39:18):
I don't.

Speaker 8 (01:39:20):
Hurt Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:39:24):
The city is home to elves l Rond when, respectively
played by Hugo Eaving and Living God.

Speaker 8 (01:39:30):
Yeah, somewhere, my kids are just so disappointed in me.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
Ye, yep, I may not have a home tonight.

Speaker 8 (01:39:39):
That's that's how bad that is.

Speaker 6 (01:39:41):
Just go in and walk and say yeah, I just
own it.

Speaker 5 (01:39:43):
When you walk it in, just say yeah, guys, I
embarrass myself today on the Mandy Connell Show.

Speaker 6 (01:39:48):
There you go, all right, what is our jeopardy category.

Speaker 8 (01:39:52):
Verbs with other meanings.

Speaker 7 (01:39:55):
Verbs with other to hurry or a grassy plant correct,
to read over carefully or a tiny skin opening?

Speaker 8 (01:40:09):
Ryan, Ryan, what a scab?

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
No, it's not.

Speaker 6 (01:40:17):
To read over careful or.

Speaker 8 (01:40:19):
A tiny skin opening.

Speaker 6 (01:40:22):
I have no idea.

Speaker 9 (01:40:23):
What is poor.

Speaker 6 (01:40:27):
Scan? Want to scan?

Speaker 7 (01:40:28):
And then I was like, no, it's not it to
take off paint or a series of comic panels.

Speaker 6 (01:40:34):
What's a strip?

Speaker 8 (01:40:35):
Correct?

Speaker 7 (01:40:37):
To send a package or Sir Galahad's choice of weary correct?
And finally, to overcome a foe or a division of
a musical measure. This one's actually the easiest one. Wait, guys,
both going to hit yourself or a division of a

(01:41:00):
musical measure? I'm not good at music ian pat Red Blue,
what is beat.

Speaker 6 (01:41:10):
On that one? That's not good?

Speaker 5 (01:41:12):
Yeah, anyway, I'll be back on Monday. We will not
be talking about the DNC or the RNC ever. Again,
we're done with that conversation. We're done with the having
of the conversation about that. Ryan Edwards is coming up next.
What are you guys going to do today on KOA Sports.

Speaker 11 (01:41:29):
Well, it's a football Friday, so we're obviously going to
spend a little time on the game. Even though the
Broncos are not playing their starters, or at least most
of their starters, they'll still allot have to break down
a lot of decisions to be made about the fifty
three man roster, so we'll get into it.

Speaker 8 (01:41:41):
Plus Rick Lewis at three thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:41:43):
So all right, there you go, that is coming up next.
Have a great weekend everybody, and we'll be back on Monday.
Keep it right here on KOA