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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
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I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connall,
joined by my right hand man. I call him a
rod You can call him Anthony Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That is still the cutest one ever the other way around.
No people call me Anthony.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
You've never noticed that I switched them back and forth
on a record.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
I never do, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Usually know what your moment to say is you screw
up my name sometimes?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
You don't ever flip those No, I.
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Do, No, I actually do consciously.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I do.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well, you don't. I don't. Wow.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
When you're not paying attention made me a trust to me.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm saying, just now, you tell other people you can
call me.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
I know you can call them Anthony Rodriguez. I do
switch it back and forth. Yes, it's true.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I pay attention more than you think.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, let.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
Me just lay some stuff out. The text line is
open always the kaway. Common Spirit Health text line can
be reached by texting five sixty six nine.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
You can always reach out and tell me I'm right
about something via the text line, or if you're a
horrible person, you can tell me I'm wrong about something.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I'm kidding. You're probably not a horrible person.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
You could be a horrible person and agree with me.
But that's okay because you're agreeing with me.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Anyway. Let's talk about the blog.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
You can find it by going to mandy'sblog dot com.
That's Mandy's blog dot com. Look for the headline that
says eight twenty seven twenty four blog an immigrant helping
others succeed and a march for kids. Click on that
and here are the headlines you will find within.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I think its in office half of American, all with
ships and clippas and say that's going to press Platt.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Today on the blog, Ryan Schuling pops in to talk
to GOP politics a piece of Ethiopia. In Aurora, Deborah
Flores talking about kids. If you want to know what
they are protecting kids from, look no further. Children never
needed the COVID vaccine. Aurora formally adopts the step Denver model,
we must add fees to tabor? Does anyone like RTD?
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It's time to ban smartphones in school? Part fifteen hundred
and sixty four, Hey, Kamala, what about dei? The Trump
campaign has released a debate video. Meanwhile, the AP noticed
Kamala is the incumbent. If you think your life is boring,
you're not alone thinking of retiring abroad. Mark Zuckerberg finally
comes clean about government ordered censorship. The Democrats may fool
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America again. Ballotstrop September sixth in North Carolina, Germany screwed
up by doing away with nukes. Another hostage is rescued
by Israel. Why children can't pay attention to the task hand?
Have you ever heard of type one point five diabetes?
Gavin Newsom single handedly cleans up homeless camps.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Why did the FBI clean the roof for Trump shooter?
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Laid love lights up your brain differently for different people.
The call for drug injection sites returns the rotten truth
about bald Eagles and Broncos fan doesn't even spill his beer.
College kid with stupid hair runs into Charlie kirk Blunt
buzzsaw fun with echoes a moment on running form.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Those are the headlines on the blog.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Well done, burnt, well done at nandysquog dot com. Oh
I like that little vibrato at the end that was
they are well.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
They're all sober today.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Uh trumpet trumpets struggling.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Okay, we'll we'll just let him struggle right on out.
Mandy's right, says this texter, she changes it up. I
know this because I always wondered if you like being
called Anthony. No, you at it's a great name. Though
it's a powerful name.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
No one uses this, so it's weird to hear.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Well, yeah, I mean that could be. You're a serious
person with serious people.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
By the way, I didn't give myself a rod. Okay, people,
I'm not that pompous. Yeah, we'll just start to call
me that back in college though, it's just stuck.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Just stuck there, you go.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
That's Most good nicknames have a pretty mundane story behind them.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Like that one. All the talent sterils.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I have a really really good friend whose nickname is
poop or poopster and uh, and I asked him one time.
I was like, Okay, I gotta know where did that
come from? And it's it's not even a good story.
It's just a dumb story. And I don't remember. It
was so bad a story that I don't even remember why.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
He was called that.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
But he's still I still I've known him for thirty
something years and I still call him poop sir. I
know that's a good name. It well, you know what
poop poop? Well, I call him poopster. But then I
never just say, hey, poop, what's up? I call him poopsters.
But then I normally call him by his real name
because I'm not, you know, in high school. So he
does have a real name, which shall remain off the radio.
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So he has plausible deniability going forward. A couple things
on the blog that I want to point out to you.
We'll get to today, but we have to start by
talking about the video of Gavin Newsom cleaning up a
homeless camp.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Hey, ro did you see this?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Oh oh boy.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
So here's what's happened in California. Okay, California has become
an absolute dumpster fire and cesspool of homelessness. They have
the largest share of the homeless population in the United
States by a long shot. They have like thirty eight
or thirty nine percent of the homeless people in the
United States are in California, and Gavin Newsom has just
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realized that he's being tarred as a bad governor because
of it. So we have a photo op. And I
burst out laughing when I saw this earlier today. Okay,
so you know Gavin Newsom, he of the linen suits
and the crisp white shirts, having dinner at the French
laundry during COVID when we were all being dolled to
stay home. You know that guy, He actually went to
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an overpass to clean up a homeless encampment, apparently by himself.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Let me just explain something to you guys.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
About how these photo ops work, using a story from
my own history. Okay, So, in when I was in Louisville, Kentucky,
there was a boys and girls club that had been
run by the Salvation Army for a very long time.
They chose not to renew their contract with boys and
girls clubs because of a lot of dumb stuff and
political back and forth.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
It was just idiocy.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
So Salvation Army decides to sort of desert this boys
and girls club in Louisville, in a real tough neighborhood
in Louisville, and so the Boys and Girls Club took
it back over, but it needed to rehab it needed work,
and it needed to be painted and made nice for
the kids again. So I got on board with this,
and I at him on the show and we talked
about it, and we did a volunteer day where we
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had a bunch of listeners come down to this boys
and Girls club in a tough neighborhood in Louisville to
help work on the building.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
And I went and.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
I went to help, and while I was there, Congressman
John Yarmouth, who was my nemesis, nemesis in Louisville. Just so,
he shows up right with the TV cameras and he's,
you know, got in his nice shirt and his nice
slacks or whatever. So they put a paint brush in
his hand and he stands there and paints for like
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two minutes or whatever. Then the cameras are like, okay,
We've got everything we need. And then literally he puts
down the paint breath and leaves. So I'm there and
I'm watching all this and I'm standing there. I'm also painting,
So I'm painting and I'm staying there. He comes and goes,
and this guy, one of the volunteers from the from
the neighborhood, came up to me. He goes, what are
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you still doing here? And I was like, what you
confuse me? I was like, I'm painting. I mean, do
I need to be doing something else? And he goes, well,
I just figured you'd leave when the camera's left too,
And I was like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm
not a politician. I'm a talk show host. When I
say I'm gonna be somewhere to volunteer, I actually stay
there and actually volunteer for whatever I'm volunteering for. And
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he was like, right on, he was. But it was
funny that I wasn't the only one to notice this.
So I am almost certain that Gavin Newsom was at
this site for no more than twenty minutes, no more
a well twenty. He has a good sheen of sweat, Anthony.
He's got a nice like sheen over his sun's screen
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and his moisturizer. He's got a nice sheen of sweat.
So I'm guessing twenty minutes just so he could build
up a little sweat to really sell it and make
it look authentic.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
But I just started.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Laughing, like we're supposed to believe that this is somehow
the personification.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Of Gavin Newsom's herculean.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Efforts to clean up the state that has gone to
absolute garbage under his leadership.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
It's so dumb, and the thing is it will work.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
There's just enough people that only see the sweaty mayor
and they're like, oh, look at him, the sweaty governor.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
He's out there in the trenches.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
He's one of us, God bless gathered.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
He cares. Roddy cares so much. He's a carer.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
He can for you. He will clean up our street.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
You know what, dare I say it? You know how
I feel watching this?
Speaker 6 (09:32):
I feel joy a rod that's the vibe of the
momentating him help joy everybody joy anyway. So I just
I want you to go watch it and just appreciate
it for how fake and how staged it actually is.
Now you've seen or been told about the man behind
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the curtain, or should I say the man behind the camera,
And as soon as that guy leaves the governor.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
There is audi. So you know what, here's the thing.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
As someone who actually spent quite a bit of time
in California in the nineties and loved it. Aside from
the whole earthquake thing that was not cool, never got
used to that, did not like earthquakes, do not like,
do not recommend zero stars. But other than that, California
was magnificent. The weather is unbeatable. It's just beautiful country.
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So I want California to get it together. But I
don't want this guy to act like all of a
sudden he's tough on the situation he allowed to fester
in his city. I don't want that, you know, uh,
Mayor Mike Johnston and I don't have this on the
blog today, but it is exactly what we're talking about
right now. Voters in a certain part of Denver are
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going to be able to vote themselves into an economic
development zone and it's going to encompass most of the
downtown tourists corridor, right It'll be pretty large, and that
money is going to be designated to improve that area
and bring people back to downtown Denver. Another story I
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read and put on the blog is that Denver downtown
vacancies are around thirty three percent office vacancies. That is
an unsustainably high number.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
That's the kind of vacancy.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Rate that leads to a death spiral that it is
extremely difficult to get out of. And if I know
one single thing from doing this show and from reading
emails and from reading text messages, it is this. Until
you and I can drive our cars to downtown Denver
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and park them with the expectation that we are going
to return and the car is going to be there unmolested,
and then we can get out of our cars and
walk down the streets of downtown Denver once again without
having to run into someone completely whacked on on drugs
that we we don't know whether or not they're going
to lunde a us, push us into the street, or
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otherwise cause us harm.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
And then we get to.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Our destination, enjoy ourselves, and be able to walk back.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
To the car with the same experience. People are not.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Going to go back to downtown Denver, and every bit
of money that is spent on anything other than public
safety is wasted at this moment in time.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I firmly believe that, and this.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Is exactly what Gavin Newsom allowed to happen in huge
parts of Los Angeles. The last time we were in
LA and we went from lax to the Port of
Los Angeles to get on.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
A cruise ship.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Under every single overpass, at every single intersection. There were
homeless encampments everywhere, everywhere. And that's like a forty five
minute drive, you guys. And that wasn't even a heavy
traffic forty five minutes.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
So I'm glad.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I'm super glad that Democrats have gotten the message that
rampant homeless and allowing people to take over and just
be drug addicts in your streets is not okay with
the rest of society. I'm glad they've finally got the message.
But good lord, does anyone take him seriously here?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
I just couldn't, Mandy, California is still a great place.
When is the last time you've been there. It's been
a while. And I'm not anti California. Like I said,
I hope they can get it together. But I used
to absolutely love San Francisco.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
It used to be one of my favorite.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
It used to be one of my favorite cities in
the world, like top five cities in the world.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Great things can come from California. Great things avocados. Oh
you were born in California or are you a transplant?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Two? Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Let's set right now. I'm just kidding. My family moved
here when I was two. Am I a native or no.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
You are a transplant with extremely deep roots, whereas I
am a transplant with medium roots because I've only been
here eleven years thirteen?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Wait what year is it? Eleven years?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
A vast majority of the last two handfuls of people
that have asked me where I'm from, and then I
let them make the judgment. They've telled me you count
as a native. Well I would count you, Okay.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Natives are weird here, though.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
I am from Florida originally, where much like Colorado, there
are way more transplants in Florida than there are native
born citizens, way more because everybody moves from Jersey. We
got to move down to Maco from mass I mean,
everybody in Florida is from somewhere else. So but I'm
a native. But I never got like super protectionist about it.
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But here people are downright snippy.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I trust snippy. I trust our listeners. Let's decide this
once and for all the commons. Beer Health text line
five six six nine zero. I will do before you
finish the sentence.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yes, yes, are you sure you want to abide, yes,
by what the internet says on the.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Tech now I do Okay, so native or no?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, just say native or no.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Been here for twenty eight years, got here when he
was two, so all of his form of years have
been here in Colorado. Is the a native or not?
Native or not? Text it to five sixty six nine.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Oh, he will.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Abide, bibe.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I think this is a mistake. It's kind of like
asking the internet to name your child. You never want
to do that.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
My buddy Paul says, name it.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Yeah, we're in California. Were you born? Someone wants to
know as if that matters?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Wlading Caster near in La.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Okay, Southern California. Yep, Southern California is like its own
country right there.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You know, so far not looking good?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Nope, I think you made a bad choice.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's fine. I don't care.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Throwing that out there now.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Today on the show, we have a bunch of stuff
that has nothing to do with California, I promise you.
And boy, do we have a lot to talk about
coming up in about I don't.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Know, thirteen fourteen minutes.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Our friend Ryan Shuling, you're very familiar with it and
him he is actually a Native Michigander, and if you
didn't know this, the Michigan GOP went through a very
similar thing that the Colorado GOP is going through now,
and I wanted to talk to him to find out
what actually happened, how it happened, in the hopes that
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we can look to Michigan and the Republican National Committee
for guidance on whether or not we are going to
move forward with Chairman Eli Brimmer, who I've already recognized
as the official chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. You
didn't really think this was going to go any other way,
did you.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I mean, there's a lot more people say native than
I thought the last majority say yeah, that's okay, that's okay. Yeah,
I'm just a special person at least because it's it's
because it's California. If it was any other state, maybe Texas.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Everyone.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
I have lived here for sixty one years, and no,
I'm still not a native.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
So you're either born here you're not.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's fine, Yeah, cool story. Hey we moved here when
I was two. Yeah, there it is.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yeah, well yeah, no, you're you're sorry, Hey, Rod, that's okay.
At at one o'clock, I'm super excited to talk about
our guest.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
At one there was.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
A really good story on CBS four about a man
named Samuel Gabrie Michael and he is an Ethiopian immigrant
who came here about I think about sixteen seventeen years ago,
and he started over, created a business from scratch, and
now he is helping other Ethiopian immigrants come to the
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United States and take advantage of the American dream.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
He's also trying to bring.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
A feel for his culture and African culture to Aurora.
So he's got a film festival that we're going to
talk about that is happening this week. I'm just I
love great immigrant stories. I love people who still recognize
that this is the greatest country in the world and
they want to come here and take advantage of the
opportunities and be a part of the American dream. I
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don't believe that the American dream is dead. I think
that too many young people in this country have bought
into the notion that the American dream is dead because
it lets them off the hook for pursuing it. Immigrants
don't have that same hang up because they've come from
actual poverty. They've come from actual destitute economies. So what
they're doing, you know, what they see here is nothing
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but opportunity, whereas native born people want to complain because
it's not as great as it was in.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
You know, Eyah, several people saying you're a semi native aerd.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Like I'm losing respect because you're trying to claim it.
I'm not trying to claim I'm a native. I don't
claim it. I'm just saying a lot of people that
tell me, oh, you count I just want to know.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
If that's the vast majority. That's fine. Hey, I was
born in California. Being in Colorado most of my life,
there's the story I'll have to say I'm a native.
I'm not. It's fine.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
All I want to say is I grew up in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Correct, I grew up in Colorado. Don't remember California.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I don't think that.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
There's anything wrong with saying I'm from Colorado.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
If you've been here.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Since you're two, but from doesn't mean you're saying you're
a native like I'm from Like.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
My daughter was born in Florida, but she spent almost,
you know, eleven months of her life there, so she's
not from Florida.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
She's a Florida Native, but she's not from Florida.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Five years were spent here, you know, but she's not
a native Colorado. But if she said I'm from Colorado,
I would be.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Like, okay, we're talking with me formative.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I mean everything after two years old has been in Colorado,
So just saying yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
A lot of people again the.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Text line, many with the exact same way I thought
it would in Colorado, are extremely passionate about being native
or not.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
It has a little taste of the sneeches.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
To me, it's because it's California, but you know it's not.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
It's the whole native of your thing feels like a
little bit like the sneeches, like you have stars upon
the ours.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Thank you. And as soon as mister.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Mc monkey mc bean shows up with a Native Colorado machine,
you're all going to be like, oh, I don't want
to be a native.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Now people are saying semi native.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I don't know, CAUSEI native. Semi native, your native.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Ish, sure, call me what you want.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Also today on the show, we've got Deborah Flora coming on.
She is still fighting for kids and this weekend she
is going to be part of the March for k
is in.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Washington, DC. That should be massive.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
We're going to talk about that, and when we get back,
I've got Ryan.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Schulling coming up. We're going to talk about.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
What may be a way forward for the newly elected
leadership of the Colorado GOP based on a very similar
thing that happened in Michigan.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
We're going to do that next. Keep it here on KOA.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
You can, of course, hear Ryan on another station only
after my show is over.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Of course, I call it the Mandy Connell post game show.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's perfect, which you actually listened.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
To on occasion, I guess by you. Yes, So I
really appreciate that he's.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Around six point thirty k how and I highly recommend
a very entertaining program.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Now you can catch my first hour on the podcast,
because you've got to listen to Mandy's third hour live.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
And this is why Ryan is the best. He understands
how the game is played right here. You know what
I mean, Let's talk about how the game was played
in Michigan because we here and I know you've talked
about this on your program as well. The debracle of
the Colorado Republican Party where we now have I, by
the way, officially recognized Eli Brammer yesterday as the chairman
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of the GOP, much like the UN recognizes a country.
So I have recognized him. So there is no question, okay,
that he is the chairman of the GOP now. But
unfortunately the old chair, the grifter, Dave Williams, is clinging
to power like Norma Desmond, clinging to start him in
Sunset Boulevard. I like that reference, and he's not going anywhere.
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What it's going to take is somebody's going to have
to tell him to leave. And this is where I'm
bringing Ryan in because this exact same thing just happened
in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Almost It's uncanny, Mandy, the parallels between the Republican Party
and Colorado here in my home state of Michigan, and
it's not that surprising to find out that both parties
are struggling immensely. Michigan is a purple state, a lot
more purple than I would say Colorado is now, which
is essentially blue, but it leans blue, and it's always
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lean blue that in my lifetime that I can remember
the Union guys a lot of Union, a lot of
University Michigan, Michigan in state central, western Eastern you have
a strong Detroit populace that is pretty safely blue, and
that's what really flipped Michigan from Trump in twenty sixteen
to Biden in twenty twenty. Biden also had that appeal
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like you're talking about with the UAW workers in Macomb
County specifically.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
But it's leadership.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
It's a top down process, and the old saying is
a fish rots from the head down, right, And Dave
Williams has taken this party in Colorado, and I believed,
in some ways kind of intentionally driven it off the cliff.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I said to.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
A friend I was having a conversation with him, like
could he be a Democrat plant? That's what I was
undering because genuinely, and I'm not seriously saying this as
a conspiracy theory, but if you were the Democrats and
you wanted to destroy the Republican Party, could you come
up with a better prototype on how to do that
then to get Dave Williams installed as the chairman.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Another way to ask that question that I've done on
my show and with you, I think is if you
were trying to undermine and destroy the Republican Party from within,
what would you do differently than anything? Dave Williams Kristan
to this point. Correct, because what we saw, Mandy, what
you saw personally at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee
was tremendous unity.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I talked to Heidi Ganal who was.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
There too, and it even effervests to the Republican Party
of those that were inttended's from Colorado here, including yourself
and Heidi Ganal. But the leadership seems hell bent on
just you know, driving headlong into the fire, no matter,
you know, damn the torpedoes and if we lose, so
what well, No, the the name of the game is winning.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It doesn't mean you compromise values.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
But in Michigan, what we've seen is this cartoonish kind
of caricature of trump Ism, and people think they know
Trump is I think better than Donald Trump himself because
they try to apply these litmus tests. Now we're a
purity test of well, you're not Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
You know Donald Trump would not pass your lyrics test.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Correct, And that's exactly what Dave Williams said here.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
And Christina Caramo is the name you want to keep
an ear out for in Michigan because she's Dave Williams.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And Carnage.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I like that, but it was the same thing.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
It's like this very narrow cabal of leadership. It's a
battle of attrition. It's a battle of subtraction rather than addition.
That's that's really where I drew the line. As you
and I both are very strong supporters of the log
Cabin Republicans here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I think they're a key group.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Valtimore Archillette is a tremendous voice as the president. And
to send out such a defamatory and inflammatory and painful email,
to what purpose.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Does that serve? To what point are you trying to
prove now.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Are trying to bring to the party with that?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
You're not, You're trying to kick people out. So how
do you plan to win elections that way? Yet you're
not You're not So In Michigan, Christina Caromel similarly felt
like she had her eyes on the prize, her fingers
on the pulse of trump Ism and what it means
we got to go ultra right maga in Michigan. I'm
telling you the history of Republicans in Michigan who win,
who win, like John Angler, Ye, like Snyder, Rick Snyder,
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who both served English served three terms before they narrowed
that to a two term limit. Jennifer Granhold, the Democrat,
followed then Rick Snyder. Michigan's gone back and forth of it.
But the types of Republicans who win in Michigan are
not very trumpy. They're not super duper far right Republican conservative.
It's kind of a it's a delicate balance. It's a
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narrow path to walk. Mike Rodgers, who's running for Senate
this year, he can win, but again, you got to
thread a needle in Michigan to win as a Republican.
And Caramo they were practically bankrupt. This is another thing
that they were sharing in common with Dave Williams Heere
and Colorado.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
They weren't.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
We're raising money and Pete Hookster comes in.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now there's this separation and it happens here too, between
the grassroots so called movement, and the established and kind
of people will call them rhinos or whatever. But the
rhinos win in Michigan. I got to say it just flatly.
And so Hookster comes in, he's not very well liked
at all the grassroots. They're booing him at this assembly.
And Caramo comes in kind of in a stealth manner.
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She's already been booted the Republican National Congression Committee.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
How would she actually get booted because she did the
party membership call a meeting like they did here.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
What was that cross, same exact thing, same thing, and
she was voted out and same thing as Dave Williams.
She was like, no, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I'm not leaving. She's doing the whole wolfle Wall Street thing. Yeah, exactly, No,
you got to leave.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
And so the National Party had to come in and say, no,
you are leaving.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
This is what's been decided. This is who we are recognizing.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
We've already seen a little bit of that from the
NRCC here in Colorado with regard to Eli Bremmer and
then Hookstra. He takes control of the gabble. He's running
these meetings, he's running this assembly and she sneaks in
ostensibly to endorse this other candidate. Sure, we know why
you're there. So they asked her to leave. She doesn't
want to leave. It turns into a scene. The police
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escort her out of the buildings.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
They did.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I mean, this is the state of things than the
Michigan Republican party, and again we can really relate to
it here in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
I'm just wondering how quickly the RNC is going to act,
because if the NRCC has already recognized the change and
is recognizing as I have, Eli Bremmer is the rightful
chair of the Republican Party in Colorado, they need to
do it like today, right. It needs to happen sooner
rather than later. The writing is on the wall. Dave
Williams is on his way out. I don't care how
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hard his little fingernails dig in. He's on his way out.
He will not be saved by some asinine meeting under
a bridge or any other meeting called. He's just we
have to move beyond this. And I'm excited to see.
I'm following Eli Bremmer on X and he's already calling candidates,
he's already calling donors. He's already doing the things that
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Dave Williams never did.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
He might have said this to you, and I know
he just said it to Dan Caplis, my cohort over
there on khow that he had reached out to say
Jeff Hurt, the third professional candidate in a very difficult
race against Adam.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Frish, a very well funded opponent.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
And Eli said when he reached out to Jeffer, that's
the first time that the State Party had reached out to.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Because the State Party under Dave Williams endorsed Ron Hanks.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Yeah, honestly, the Ron Hanks, Tina Peters part of this
party needs to sit down and shut up, like just sick.
I'm thinking about doing a musical about Tina I should
I do you imagine? I think that with Ai, I
could write some big numbers, like you know, like where
she compares herself to Jesus. I mean, I think Tina
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Peters the musical has legs. Yeah, So working on the
book now and then I'll get to the score.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I will definitely wants to help me. Well, there was
heard in the third that rhymes then, Gabe Evans. This
is the one that really sets me off. Here is
this young, accomplished, just a stellar candidate in the eighth
congressional a winnable district that Barb Kirkmeyer very narrowly lost
to Yadira Kravo last time around, the first time that
this district has been in play since we expanded after
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the census. And rather than the report the Republican Party here,
Dave Williams the leadership getting behind a solid conservative and
Gabe Williams, a guy who's a military veteran overseas, who's
a police veteran as well, who has served in our
General Assembly, has all this experience.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Sharp guy comes and he endorsed his opponent.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
I saw Janet Josie at the World County Women's Rumble
and uh, anyway.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
No, no, the broader point and this is where I
think everything turned for me because I'm like, okay, I'm
kind of keeping tabs up this.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I tried to do the Michael Corleone thing, right. I
don't want to overreact.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
I don't want to study Corleon and I don't want
to come in guns blast and I'm waiting. Then Lauren
Bobert came out with a statement, and that's when I went, okay.
So I'm hopefully going to have some conversations with Lauren
about this and in the near future show.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I understand she's.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Already talking to Eli Bremmer, and those conversations.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
If Lauren Bobert, who is, in my opinion, the most
prominent member of our part for this state right now,
because Doug Lambourn's on the way out right. If she
throws her support behind Eli, that's it. It's it, It's over.
But what Dave Williams at that point, what are you doing?
What are you doing? Lauren Bolbert? Even who Dave Williams
did endorse, I think that was a matter of convenience.
But you know, if Lauren Bolbert is not on his side,
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you know who that matters.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Yes, Bolbert, that's what I'm say saying, you out left shouling.
You can listen to his show right after this one
on six thirty.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Kid.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
No.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
I appreciate the insight because I think that's where we're
head of the RNC has to recognize, just like U
leadership and just move on.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Time to move on. People will be right.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Back after this. If you had been able, dear listener,
to listen to my show since its inception in Fort Myers, Florida,
in two thousand and five, you would know that throughout
the years, I have spent an exorbitant amount of time
on certain topics that really were not important to anybody
else but me.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Number one, Venezuela. I started talking about Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
In two thousand and five letting people know that it's
collapse was imminent. I just didn't know how long imminent
was going to take. That's thing number one. Thing number
two cursive handwriting. How important it is for our kids
to learn cursive handwriting for reasons that go well beyond
actually being able to read cursive There's all kinds of
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studies that show that it helps make important brain connections
for kids.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Thing number three litter.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
It's the surest sign of the downfall of a civilization.
If we can't even be bothered to clean up after ourselves,
how are we going to keep our society nice? And
now Number four cell phones in the classroom. And I
say this as the mom of a fifteen year old
in a public high school in Colorado. So before all
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the parents start freaking out because we've had more than
our share of school shootings here in Colorado, I need
you to think of a more or rather should I
say larger threat to our kids. And that is what
smartphones have done to this generation who have had them
in their lives since birth. Study after study after study
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has already shown that students have a high leveled anxiety
about their cell phones. Study after study has shown that
students have a shorter attention span because of their cell phones.
Bullying is up because of cell phones, and a lot
of students report self report that they are addicted to
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cell phones. For teenagers say their cell phones make them anxious.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
So what is something we can do.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
We can keep cell phones out of the classroom. And
there are more and more studies that are showing this,
and by the way, a lot of school districts have
already adopted this. Across the country. Teachers report things like, hey,
guess what students are talking to each other.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
They're actually what's that word?
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Listening in class and participating in class. Now, let's do
think to yourself, my little Susie or my little Johnny
would never look at his cell phones in class. More
than half of students are distracted by the devices of
other students, So it's not just the kid with the
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cell phone, it's all the kids around the kid with
the cell phone. Two thirds of American students say they
are distracted by their digital devices during class. It's time,
my friends. Now, this doesn't mean that we need to
have our kids not take their cell phones to school.
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There are lots of different ways of mitigating this from
essentially putting cell phones into a faraday bag when the
kids arrive at school so they can't get any incoming
or outgoing messages. Nothing can happen while it's in that bag.
From the pouches where kids walk into a classroom and
drop their cell phones into a pouch that also does
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the same thing. Some schools to say, look, you can
have it at your locker, you can't have it on
your person.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Now here in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
That last one probably wouldn't fly, But there are other
ways to do this. Cell phones are not good for kids.
I mean, there's it's kind of like this. I'm gonna
I'm gonna liken this to alcohol.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
For just a minute, right, People.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Who drink a lot, they will always find something to
gird their belief that alcohol and certain circumstances, under certain
conditions is fine. You can find a study that says, hey,
you know what, people who drink red wine they have
they have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. You can
find a study that's going to give you that information.
But they choose to ignore all of the downsides that
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are on the other side of this. They're ignoring the
fact that more young people are dying of alcoholism and
the associated illnesses than ever before. More women are dying
of alcoholic alcoholism related illnesses or diseases than ever before.
But the people who have decided the drinking is for them,
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they're they're going to ignore all that other data. And
this is exactly the parents who are too freaked out
to allow their children to have the same freedom that
we had at school, which is the freedom from parents,
the freedom from harassment, the freedom from our friends that
weren't in our classes.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
They now want to.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Rob their children of that experience because they're ignoring all
of this other data. Think it over, Let's talk about
some of the success stories. We'll be doing more of
this because now this is topic number four.
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Speaker 5 (36:02):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
We are going to barrel through this hour. I forgot
we used to barrel on Tuesday. We forgot about barreling.
Now we're barreling again. We're having trouble connecting with our guests,
but we will work on that as I have so
much more on the blog to talk about. It's not
even funny. May I have my computer audio, please, Anthony.
So if you want to know why the Democratic Party
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is hiding Kamala Harris from society, there's a couple of
things you need to know. First of all, ballots drop
in North Carolina on September sixth, meaning ballots are going
to be.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Mailed out to people.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
They are going to be able to fill out their
ballot and mail it back. So the Democrats in North
Carolina only have to hide her for a little longer
and then people will have sent back their ballots and
they don't have to worry about that. Other ballots start
to drop in October, including here in Colorado, and October
surprise should be September surprise. But there's another reason they're
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hiding her from society, and I just.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Want to play. This is from a few months ago.
This was before she became the candidate.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
But a reporter when she used to talk to reporters,
asked her a very simple question about diversity, equity, and inclusion,
and this is how it went on.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
A different front.
Speaker 10 (37:32):
Actually, this week reported that President Trump, if he'sa gets
a second term, will sort of dial back for lack
of better term DII programs that the bad administration has
put in forth. Obviously, I know you disagree with that.
I obviously believe that you don't want him to get
a second term that set. If that does happen, what
do you think that would do to raise relations in
this country?
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Well, let me say we're going to win, so it's
not going to happen. But I think that listen, we
today is actually I.
Speaker 11 (37:58):
Believe in an anniversary in terms of doctor King right,
and I was just in Selma and we celebrated it well,
acknowledged the fifty ninth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. I think
it's really important that we as Americans always embrace our.
Speaker 12 (38:16):
History, the parts that we're proud of and the parts
that we're not proud of, but that we can't forget.
And we should all agree that we should teach history.
We should learn history if we're to ever have an
accurate idea of where we want to go and where
we don't want to go in the future. And that
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means also acknowledging the importance of diversity. It means acknowledging
the importance of the fact that everyone should have equal
opportunity to compete and equity.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
And then now I want to stop her there, because
first of all, she's not at all answering the question.
She's just rambling on about words and saying things and
repeating the words diversity, equity, and inclusion. She's on record
as saying that she believes in equity as equal outcomes.
That is quite a horse of a different color than
equal opportunity. And by the way, I am all for
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equal opportunity. I want every single American, regardless of where
they're from, what their background is, to their parents, are
to have access to a top quality education that prepares
them to take advantage of opportunities in life, whether it's
going into trade school, whether it's going to college, whether
it's going straight into the workforce. I want these things.
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I want equal opportunities for people. But you cannot guarantee
equal outcomes in a society where people have different abilities,
because some people are Bill Gates and there is I'm
just gonna let you know, there's a zero percent chance
that yours truly was going to come up with the
personal computer. Okay, it was not in my skill set.
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That's not how my brain were work. And I'm going
to be the first to say I think Bill Gates
deserves to have a crapload of money for fundamentally changing
society as we know it. Call me crazy, but in
Kamala Harris's word world, he should have the same outcome
as somebody who decides to drop out of high school,
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make incredibly bad choices, spend money on cigarettes and lottery
tickets every single day while working a series of meaningless
jobs with absolutely no effort to improve themselves, make themselves
more marketable, improve their skills. She believes that they should
have the same outcome. That's what she said, equal outcomes.
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So the fact that she then slides in everybody should
have access, equal opportunity, and then she throws in an equity.
You gotta know what she means when she says equity.
But I'll let her finish the ramble of.
Speaker 12 (40:54):
Course inclusion that. You know, Hey, let's look around the
room and see who's not here, and did we leave
the open.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Did we leave the deer open? The door open? That's
why they're not letting her do interviews at all.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
And then I want to play this audio for you,
and it's going to not be as impactful as the
actual video that you can see on the blog today.
But if the Trump campaign keeps doing commercials like this,
they may be able to pull it out. But they
better be spending money in the right places. This is
a new ad for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message.
Speaker 12 (41:31):
Everyday prices are too high, food, rent, gas, back to
school clothes.
Speaker 5 (41:38):
That is calmed idernomics.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
Now, obviously the first part is not from the same
video as the second part. Well, she's talking about how
bad everything is. That is her in one clip. When
she points out that it's by noomics, it's her in
a different clip. But they're put together masterfully. I'll let
it continue.
Speaker 12 (41:55):
Cost fifty more today, realm beef is up almost fifty
There's not much left at the end of the month.
Speaker 5 (42:02):
Bidomics is working.
Speaker 6 (42:04):
The price of housing has gone up. It feels so
hard to just be able to get ahead.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
And we are very proud of Bidenomics. I'm Donald.
Speaker 6 (42:13):
That is what needs to happen. That is what has
to happen if the Trump campaign is going to win. Now,
also on the blog today, amazingly, the Associated Press, which
has been wildly uncurious about Kamala Harris's actual positions.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
Put this out.
Speaker 6 (42:33):
Today via ABC News. Here's the headline. She's the sitting
VP and the candidate of change. How Harris is having
it both ways. I'll just read part of this to you.
She's the sitting Vice president who's been in office for
three and a half years. She's also the presidential candidate
of just five weeks, promising a new way forward. Kamala
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Harris is having it both ways, as she is the
campaign trail after the Democratic National Convention, taking credit for
parts of President Joe Biden's record in rallies staged in
front of the Air Force two, while casting herself as
a new leader who rails against the politics of the past.
In every presidential cycle, candidates run on experience or freshness,
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but Harris so far appears to be successfully harmonizing two
seemingly competing messages, much to the frustration of former President
Donald Trump and his allies. They then managed to find
a Democrat to quote first in the story, who says
she has this powerful and unique and interesting advantage that
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we've never seen before in our politics. She's both an
incumbent and she's been able to seize the change banner
away from Donald Trump. Harris's vision for the country has
leaned heavily on biden plans, to the point of not
rewriting those plans even.
Speaker 5 (43:57):
After Biden dropped out.
Speaker 6 (43:59):
The platform approved by the DNC was passed last week
with frequent and outdated mentions of a Biden's second term.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
Her presentation as someone offering a new way.
Speaker 6 (44:10):
Forward relies in large part on being someone different than
the norm. The fifty nine year old daughter of Jamaican
and Indian immigrants replaced an eighty one year old white
man who first ran for president thirty six years ago.
She's running to become the nation's first female president and
first black woman or person of South.
Speaker 5 (44:29):
Asian descent to serve.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
Two thirds of Democrats wanted Biden to drop out after
his debate performance against Trump, which crystallized long standing concerns
among the public and many prominent Democrats in private about
his readiness. Then they managed to find a Republican pollster
to talk to, and he said Harris's ability to embody
change has quote a lot more to do with her age,
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her race, and her gender than it has to do
with any policy positions that she's articulated that outs change.
So just to be clear, as a function of her
immutable characteristics that she has nothing to do with other
than being born into them, she is now successfully argues
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the AP and what is surely another example of how
biased this news organization is. She's successfully navigating that because
no one's pushing back and saying, but wait, you've been
part of the administration for three and a half years
and you've adopted the exact same platform, So how is
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that a new path forward?
Speaker 2 (45:36):
Exactly.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
It's remarkable to.
Speaker 6 (45:40):
Me that the AP even did a story, but they
managed to find a lot of Democrats to weigh in
to make it look like it's a genius thing. She
is her own leader, of course, Brian Nelson, her senior
campaign policy advisor, told reporters at a Bloomberg event. But
she's a leader who's been a partner to President Biden
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these last three and a half years. They have shared
values and principles. He said, Okay, so do we get
to ask her when she knew that President Joe Biden
is so addled that he's just decided to take the
rest of his presidency off that he's on another vacation
for nine days, after being on vacation for the weekend,
after being on vacation for five days, is it okay
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to ask if she's this trusted partner, is she running
the country right now? If not her, then who It's
a genius stroke actually to keep her out of the media,
because she's terrible off the cuff, absolutely terrible. This is
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why whenever I see these stories about the Trump campaign
starting to waffle on the.
Speaker 5 (46:48):
Debates, I'm thinking to myself, what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (46:50):
And I don't think they're waffling on the debates. They're
arguing about the rules, and that's fine. But in a
debate as crazy as Donald Trump can get talking about
rambling things about golf and all that crap, he is
an off the cuff speaker who actually can say things
that makes sense, unlike an off the cuff speaker who
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uses the strategy of essentially repeating the words in the
question rather than asking or answering the question itself. I'll
just keep using the words they ask me about, and
maybe no one will notice that I did.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
Not answer any of them. I'm telling you. With the
media being as in the bag for the Harris campaign
as they are in the bag. This just may work.
And you have all of these low.
Speaker 6 (47:41):
Information voters, as Rush so aptly named them years and
years ago, who are not paying attention to any of
this stuff. They don't listen to talk radio, they don't
really pay attention to news. They're just happy that someone
who's not one hundred is finally running for office.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
Jar Baker is part of the.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
Wall Street Journal Opinion Club, right, and he wrote a
really good editorial today about this, an opinion piece, and
I want to share just a little bit of it.
Your campaign is poetry. You campaign in poetry, you govern
in pros. Mario Clumo's adage has been updated and adapted
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by his successors in the modern Democratic Party. The duality
they present to voters either side of an election is
a deception that has defined American politics and culture for
the past twenty years. As they campaign for office, they
present a kind of idealized version of themselves to the
electorate as mainstream Amedian, mainstream Americans seeking merely to bring
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a little unity and compassion to a fundamentally great country
in need of reform. Once in office, they act as
if they have a mandate to remake a benighted country,
to re order an unjust system, to replace American exceptionalism
with European social democracy, and to rewrite the nation's values
with the precepts of their cultural Marxism. They campaigned to
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borrow the late governor's taxonomy in the poetry of Robert Frost.
Speaker 5 (49:19):
They govern in the prose of Herbert Markhughes.
Speaker 6 (49:23):
Last week in Chicago, we got the poetry a frustian
pastoral of Democrats posing as regular Americans, honest toilers in
a darkening landscape of their own making. As they did
not tell us, they propose only to enlighten with their benevolence.
I don't mean poetry in the literal sense. With a
few exceptions, the quality of our political oratory is dire
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and plumbed the usual depths.
Speaker 5 (49:46):
Last week we've reached the point where even the actual.
Speaker 6 (49:49):
Poetry is prosaic, as the left's unofficial poet Laureate Amanda
Gorman demonstrated with another of her recitations of plat twonousal
banalities leading progressive nostrums delivered inner trademark phony iambic meter.
Speaker 5 (50:06):
In Okay, and then he goes on from there. But
he's absolutely right. And we saw this exact same thing
in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (50:16):
Do you remember in the last election cycle when Democrats
ran on saving us money and making Colorado more affordable.
Do you know what they've done since then to make
us more affordable? Absolutely nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing.
They have done nothing. Everything has just gotten more expensive.
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As a matter of fact, I got another story on
the blog today about just how much more of our
money the Democratic legislature has taken in the form of fees. Remember,
TABOR controls the amount the government can take from us.
Speaker 5 (50:57):
Tabor is um hang on, here we go. You're in Aeron.
Speaker 6 (51:06):
Taber controls the legislature because they can't raise our taxes
without asking for our permission. So what has the Democratic
legislature done. They have, well, just turned taxes into fees.
Speaker 5 (51:21):
And now.
Speaker 6 (51:23):
The Common Sense Institute has done a study and I
want to share just a little bit of this column
with you as well. Legislators have been shifting more and
more of the state's revenue dependents away from tax increases,
which voters have mostly kept in close check by refusing
to approve them, to fee based enterprises not subject to TABOR.
Speaker 5 (51:42):
In the first year after Taber was enacted.
Speaker 6 (51:45):
Fee based enterprises generated seven hundred and forty two million
dollars in the twenty eight years. Between nineteen ninety two
and twenty twenty, legislators created twenty four new enterprises, which
together collected twenty point nine billion dollars in twenty twenty.
By twenty twenty three, their revenue had increased by over
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three thousand percent, far beyond population growth sixty two percent
to twenty three point three billion dollars. Proposition one seventeen,
pass in twenty twenty, required new enterprises projected to collect
more than one hundred million to obtain voter approval. In response,
the state established eight new enterprises and expanded a pre
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existing one to bypass Tabor, again costing Colorado's a total
of eighty eight point three million dollars in fiscal year
twenty twenty three alone. But yet all the Democrats ran
to save you money. We're going to save you money.
Speaker 5 (52:49):
They allowed this.
Speaker 6 (52:50):
Massive property tax increase to happen.
Speaker 5 (52:53):
They had four years to fix.
Speaker 6 (52:55):
It after the Gallagher Amendment was repealed, and they did nothing.
And now that there's a ballot initiative that would roll
back a lot of those gains, we have these local
governments who just received a huge increase, who are now saying, well,
if you bring it back to a more reasonable level,
we're gonna have to fire everyone. We can't afford to
go on if you don't let us keep all of
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the money that we just took from you. And this
was all, this was all done, All of it was
done under the guise of saving you money campaigning in
pros excuse me, campaigning and poetry governing and pros.
Speaker 5 (53:33):
So this all struck home for me today, and there was.
Speaker 6 (53:42):
I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish there was
a way to make people pay attention to this right.
I wish there was a way to say to our
friends and neighbors who don't really pay attention but dial
in at the very last minute to decide.
Speaker 5 (53:59):
Who to vote for.
Speaker 6 (53:59):
It, It's like, why do you keep getting fooled again?
Why do you keep being such a reliable voter block?
And I'm gonna talk specifically about a voter block that
consistently votes for Democrats and I don't understand why at
this point, and that is African Americans. How has voting
for Democrats for fifty years benefited the African American community.
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You still have a staggering difference in household wealth. Do
you have a staggering difference in the achievement gap in
schools that are run almost exclusively by Democrats? What has
happened in the term of economic development zones? What has
happened in these communities? And yet that is such a
reliable voting block, And I don't get it at this
stage in the game. I don't understand why Jews would
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vote for Democrats, truly, I don't. I also, in many
ways understand why gay people won't vote for Republicans. There's
all these different like focus groups and you know, different
sort of demographics that I honestly am like, I don't
get while you're voting to continue the policies that have
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done nothing to uplift your community. And if that's how you,
as a whatever member of whatever community you are, feel
about the Republican Party, I at least understand that. In
my mind, what Republican platform positions used to be. We're
good for everyone. You've got free markets, you've got a
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strong economy, you've got economic opportunity. All of those things,
when they're applied to everyone equally, can uplift people in
such a way that all of the differences sort of
fall away. When people are successful and happy, they don't
spend a lot of time talking about grievances. They tend
to flourish in all aspects of their life when their
economic situation is better. And I know I'm not breaking
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news to you guys for doing this, but in any case,
I'm trying to right now, Aaron, try into you right now?
Speaker 5 (56:03):
Okay, Oh, surprise guest.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
Yes, we have a surprise guest. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (56:09):
I can't tell you anything, nothing at all, nothing at all,
But in seven minutes we have a very special surprise
guest joining the show.
Speaker 5 (56:16):
Surprise guest to yes, can you give me a hint?
Speaker 1 (56:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (56:23):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (56:23):
Is it bigger than a bread box?
Speaker 2 (56:25):
It's bigger than anything. Right. People are going to want
to tune.
Speaker 6 (56:29):
In, just I too want to tune in to find
out who I'm going to be talking to after this,
and we have our debut of our new newsman.
Speaker 5 (56:37):
Reck's no pressure or anything.
Speaker 6 (56:39):
Don't screw anything up because now I've introduced you as
our new newsman and people are going to be listening
with a very critical ear.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
We'll do all this and be back with a surprise guest.
I'm intrigued, just like you are. Listeners. We'll be right back.
Speaker 6 (56:50):
Our listeners don't even know what a legend you really are.
We tried to convey to them what a legend you
are at hosting karaoke.
Speaker 5 (56:58):
I can't believe we have you on the show. This
is a.
Speaker 8 (57:02):
I can't believe I'm a legend, but it's nice to
be here.
Speaker 6 (57:06):
So, Freda, how long have you been hosting karaoke?
Speaker 8 (57:10):
I've been doing this for thirty years. I'm on Social
Security that I'll give you an idea of how old
I am. Right, So, it's been a wonderful ride. Ever
since we started. They had little tape cassettes for the music,
so it was all terribly undigital. Then came along the
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laser discs. I had a bunch of laser discs when
they came out. Then the little cdgs which are like
little CDs, and now everything's you know, digital. So how
did you download it online? You put on your computer?
Speaker 5 (57:47):
How did you get into this in the first place?
I mean, what what made you go? You know what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna be a karaoke host.
Speaker 8 (57:56):
I want a singing contest and aeroke bar way back
in nineteen eighty eight, and I told the guy who
was running the show, I said, you know, I have
a van. I can log equipment around. You need me,
So I gave him my card and he called, and
from that point on I was not essentially doing the
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showals myself, but running the sound, carrying the equipment around.
And about a year later then I became like a host,
and for then from then on, I've been doing it
in my sleep.
Speaker 6 (58:30):
So you are not just your typical karaoke host. You
are an active participant with the people that are singing.
I saw you singing backup. I saw you play in
a fake keyboard. I saw you with a rose in
your mouth. I saw you with light up sunglasses. I
saw you play the recorder. It was just an epic
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kind of of hosting. When did you start adding all
of this stuff to your hosting repertoire?
Speaker 8 (59:00):
Actually pretty early on, I've I don't you know, I
didn't really do it to distract away from the singers.
I just sort of had a funny sense of humor.
I knew the music. I could actually play guitar when
I first started out, so I was just familiar with
being able to fake stuff, and I thought it would
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be like a funny addition people be able to not
only listen to the music, but they seem me off
to the side doing some funny impersonation of the you know,
whether I'm playing the saxophone, which is a blow up sax,
or you know, a guitar, which is actually a guitar
neck and not a whole guitar no strings. Of course,
it just made it a little bit more entertaining, I thought,
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and people were very receptive, so I just kept along
doing it and it's just kind of evolved into what
it is today. So is it's fun for me, it's
fun for the audience.
Speaker 5 (59:58):
It is funny.
Speaker 6 (59:58):
And one of the things I love about you as
you're absolutely deadpan the entire time. If you're loving what
you're doing, you don't show it on your face. Bread
You're just.
Speaker 5 (01:00:06):
There doing it, being the man.
Speaker 6 (01:00:09):
And you remained relatively expressionless, which made me laugh so hard.
I can't even tell you you were You were the
hit of our visit to Chicago. I'm just letting you
know this.
Speaker 8 (01:00:21):
It was just wonderful. I thought you guys had originally
been just part of the DNC, maybe delegates visiting, because
we did add some of them in during that week.
But it's just a wonderful time being analysis. We do
it five nights a week, and I do it four
of the five. And we've had a lot of awards
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in Chicago best Karaoke Bar for like eleven years in
a row. In fact, they stopped giving the award to
karaoke bars. I don't know, maybe they felt, what's the point,
It's always going to be Alice's. But it's been a
great ride. People are just the audience is they're very
supportive of all the singers, whether you're good, whether you're bad.
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So it's it's it's I can't believe this is my job.
I get paid to do this.
Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
So you heard my producer A Rod sing what in
the scale of karaoke world singing?
Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
One being, Oh my god, make it stop, ten being?
This kid could have a future.
Speaker 6 (01:01:24):
Where is a Rod on the one to ten scale
of karaoke singers in your long history and and experience?
Speaker 8 (01:01:33):
Oh I would have to give him ten? Yeah, because
he was that good. There were other people from the
party not so not so good, not so bad, but
but a Rod, he just He just really stuck out,
got a great voice, sounds just like the record. Of course,
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if you do Rick Astley, we're going to get some bad,
you know, bad reviews. But I had to say, like
it was. I mean, I like this song because I
hear it every night. But he was awesome. Red sounded
absolutely fabulous. Well, I agree to be in a band somewhere.
Speaker 6 (01:02:10):
Yeah, he loves to sing karaoke. And we went to
the r n C as well, where we sang karaoke
at the RNC And the quality of the singers in
Milwaukee at the karaoke bar was better than the quality
of the singers and Alice, is that that particular Wednesday night?
But the karaoke host did not even come close to you, Fred,
not even remotely close. And I want to ask you
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one more question before we run out of time, and
that is as a karaoke host for thirty years, what
songs would you be happy if you never heard anyone
sing again?
Speaker 8 (01:02:43):
Oh my god, what a great question. Total Eclips to
the Heart, number one, number one, Get rid of that
song Boheman rhaps.
Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Oh yeah, that's a tough one too.
Speaker 8 (01:02:57):
I was never a big fan that song from the
first place, and they have to hear it at least
every other night. It doesn't make you a bigger fan.
And don't stop believing by Journey. That's the trifecta of songs.
I never want to hear it again. Only two of
them because I hear I've heard them so much, I
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don't want to hear them again. But total eclipse of
the Heart. Oh, it's the worst.
Speaker 6 (01:03:24):
Well, and Ie, people maybe get out a little. In
Colorado we have a saying where people get out ahead
of their skis a little bit, meaning that they've bitten
off more than they can chew. And I feel like,
especially Journey, you probably have a lot of singers who
have bitten off more than they can chew with that
particular song vocally.
Speaker 8 (01:03:43):
Absolutely. In fact, many of my well all of my
clients don't know this. But because it's such a high song,
I adjust the key down half a step. They call
it down one. Nobody knows. Nobody can tell, but it
helps him a little bit trying to hit those notes.
(01:04:04):
So it'll it'll. It was my secret until I came
on your show. But yeah, I cheat for the good
of the company. I guess you would say in that one.
Speaker 6 (01:04:14):
Fred if we ever want to have a Mandy Connell
show karaoke party, will you can we fly you out
here and you run our karaoke party for us.
Speaker 8 (01:04:22):
Absolutely. I've been out to Rocky Mountain National Parks. I'll
always flying out to Denver. I've been out to the
park maybe a dozen times. I love the mountains, love
being out west. So I'm your man. I'm there, Well,
diesel Man, DJ, Can I do a shout out?
Speaker 10 (01:04:40):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
Absolutely, go right ahead.
Speaker 8 (01:04:41):
Shout out to Paul Hankleman. He lives in Denver. He
comes in every Christmas to do a party at Alice's.
He has relatives here. He's been coming to my shows
for i'll say twenty years. So he lives in Denver. Now,
Paul Hankleman, all right and a lovely partner. Then I
appreciate that shout out. Well, Fred, We're gonna think it'll
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be very impressed.
Speaker 5 (01:05:07):
Oh Fred, everybody listens to this show. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:05:10):
I'm a huge star, not as big as you, but
I'm a huge star here in Denver. So I'm sure
he's listening right now and is floored. But his favorite
DJ is giving him a shout out. Fred, we will
be in touch with you, because now I want to
have a karaoke party. I don't sing anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
I am unable to sing anymore. I had a vocal
cord surgery that pretty much ended that for me. But
we have lots of people, including our newsman Rob who
also sang, and of course a Rod and we'd love
to have you out. So we're gonna make that happen.
I don't know how, but we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Make it happen.
Speaker 8 (01:05:39):
All right, can't wait?
Speaker 5 (01:05:41):
All right, Fred, thank you so much for your time today.
Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
Man, thank you.
Speaker 8 (01:05:46):
I'll be talking to you sometime in the future.
Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
All right.
Speaker 6 (01:05:49):
That's DJ Fred, our karaoke friend from Alice's Bar in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
Well done, Anthony. Now we have to carry have a
karaoke party.
Speaker 6 (01:05:59):
Okay, Texters hit the Common Spirit health text line. If
you were going to come to karaoke at the Mandy
Canal Karaoke party, what song would you sing?
Speaker 5 (01:06:07):
We already know the three that we never want to
hear again. So here we go. I'm the worst.
Speaker 6 (01:06:14):
Singer ever, but I need to put total eclips of
the Heart on the top of my karaoke list, not
when Fred's there. Only Want to Be with You by
Hoody and the Blowfish. You know Darius Record does not
like it when you call him Hoodie. There'll be no
follow up questions on how I know that? Turn the
page by Bob Seeger Tequila. Many of you said tequila?
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Is that for people who can't sing tequila? Shania Twain, Man,
I feel like a woman. I mean, if you're a man.
That's a number. Did It My Way by Frank Sinatra,
Uneasy Writer by Charlie Daniels, Mandy Anything Captain and danil
is my jam?
Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
Do you know what, Texter? I will commit to singing Muskrat.
Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
Love with you. No, I won't.
Speaker 6 (01:06:59):
I mean I might, but I'm not committing. It was
a very good year by Frank Sinatra. That's a good one,
kind of wistful.
Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
The wine Jogi's in.
Speaker 6 (01:07:07):
She would sing me and my Bobby McGee in Piece
of My Heart by Janis Jamaica Farewell, not Familiar, Only
the Lonely by the Motels.
Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
That's a good one.
Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
Mandy, how do you mend a broken heart? By the Begs?
Are you a castrato person? How do you get that
high karaoke? You've lost that love and feeling Mandy Angelized
by the Jeff Healey Band, Mandy Poncho and Lefty requires
two people, so all draft a rod war Pigs by
Black Sabbath or a Little Over his Skis Hallowed be
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Thy Name by Iron Maiden, Mandy Ari karaoke I'm first
in with Mac the Knife. That from John from Pueblo
karaoke tunes. Rocky Mountain, High Winter Wonderland is the song
I can fake. Best Dancing Queen by Abba. I like
the Dan Band version of the Total Eclipse of the Heart.
Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
Says this text. They had their appearance in old school.
Speaker 6 (01:07:59):
Wait, ladies, screeching into the microphone, was that karaoke of
Kamala's DNC speech. I'm confused? O oh snap Texter, Oh
snap yeah. Fred was wearing a Harris Wall shirt. That's
his only you know is only issue Mandy either the
SpongeBob theme song or Desperado from the Eagles.
Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
Now that is a broad sort of you know, bass
of thing.
Speaker 6 (01:08:24):
Mandy the up Ultimate Couple song Paradise by the Dashboard Lights.
Speaker 5 (01:08:27):
I love that song, can't. I don't have the voice
for it anymore?
Speaker 6 (01:08:32):
Toby Keith beer for my Horses, Mandy, I would sing
whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.
Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
Also, please do not allow Black Velvet.
Speaker 6 (01:08:40):
Worst karaoke song ever, not as bad as Total Eclipse
of the Heart at very close. When we get back
it is I'm not even gonna do the two minute
drill because I've got some serious stuff that i want
to talk about, including Mark Zuckerberg finally admitted how large
the campaign by the Biden administration a censor unpopular information
(01:09:05):
really was.
Speaker 5 (01:09:06):
We'll do that next.
Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
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Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
No, it's Mandy Connell.
Speaker 8 (01:09:18):
On KLA.
Speaker 7 (01:09:20):
Ninem got way the noisy through three many Connell keeping
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Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 6 (01:09:35):
To the third hour of the show, although I don't
think anything gets her bass the last hour. We are
waiting for Deborah Florida join us at two thirty because
she is appearing at a huge march this weekend in DC.
We're gonna find out more about that and what she's
going to be doing there. But this story, it broke
yesterday and it's like the whole world just met it.
Speaker 5 (01:09:56):
With a shrug. And here's why.
Speaker 6 (01:09:59):
If you're on the right, you already know what I'm
about to say. You already know exactly what I'm going
to say from Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook. If you're on
the left, you just want to pretend that didn't happen.
When the Hunter byde laptop story was being censored and
we talked about it on this show and I posted
about it on.
Speaker 5 (01:10:17):
Twitter, I had people like, Oh, what.
Speaker 6 (01:10:21):
Other conspiracy theories you're.
Speaker 5 (01:10:23):
Going to believe in Nandy?
Speaker 6 (01:10:24):
It's so obviously Russian disinformation. It has all the hallmarks,
And fifty one people signed a letter saying that it
was Russian disinformation, except it wasn't. It was real, and
Facebook conspired with the federal government to block that information
from being seen by voters.
Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
But that's not all they did.
Speaker 6 (01:10:48):
Mark Zuckerberg has done more than his share as of late,
appearing in front of the House Oversight Committee multiple times.
But he sent a letter yesterday to Jim George for
the Committee on the Judiciary, and in it.
Speaker 5 (01:11:05):
He says this.
Speaker 6 (01:11:08):
In twenty twenty one, senior officials from the Biden administration,
including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months
to censor certain COVID nineteen content, including humor and satire,
and expressed a list of frustration with.
Speaker 5 (01:11:24):
Our teams when we didn't agree.
Speaker 6 (01:11:26):
Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take
content down, and we own our decision, including COVID nineteen
related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake
of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong,
and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.
How about outspoken at all? Can you imagine if Mark
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Zuckerberg had posted on his Facebook page, Hey, everybody, we're
getting pressure for the federal government to censor what you
guys can see on Facebook when it comes to COVID.
Speaker 5 (01:11:58):
How brave would that have been.
Speaker 6 (01:12:01):
But that's not what he did, He continues in this letter,
Like I said to our teams at the time, I
feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards
due to pressure from any administration in either direction, and
we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.
Speaker 5 (01:12:19):
So what this whole letter is.
Speaker 6 (01:12:21):
This whole letter, by the way, and I'll get into
what else is in it, it's just him saying, hey, guys,
you know what, we had a ton of pressure from
the Biden administration to censor stuff, and we did. But
I am so so sorry about that, now, so sorry
that we did all that to you. Oh but he
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doesn't say sorry. He's also laying the groundwork, so let
any Republican administration know they will not be given the
same difference. He continues, in a separate situation, the FBI
warned us about a potential Russian disinformation opera about the
Biden family and Barisma in the lead up to the
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twenty twenty election. Now, I want to read this again
because I need you to understand what he just did here.
In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a
potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Barisma.
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So the FBI, which most assuredly knew about Hunter Biden's
dealings with Ukrainian oligarchs and the payments he was getting
from Barisma, the Ukrainian gas company, They absolutely knew about
all that, and yet the FBI reached out in a
campaign move to help the Biden administration tamp down on
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negative stories.
Speaker 5 (01:13:49):
Before they even had a chance to come out.
Speaker 6 (01:13:53):
So Mark Zuckerberg here is just admitting casually that the
FBI worked as an arm of the Biden administration in
their campaign while he was not president. By the way,
Donald J. Trump was president of the United States when
the FBI ostensibly Donald Trump's FBI because the executive is
in charge of the FBI while Donald Trump was in
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charge of the FBI. The FBI reached out to Facebook
to let them know about this story that they absolutely
knew the truth about. I do not if the FBI
didn't know what Hunter Biden was doing, what do they even?
Why do they even exist? Why do we even have
the FBI? So now we know that the FBI was
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successfully weaponized by the Biden campaign with Facebook. He continues
that fall, when we saw a New York Post post
story reporting on corruption allegations involving then Democratic presidential nominee
Joe Biden's family, we sent that story to fact checkers
for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply.
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Since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation,
and in retrospect, we shouldn't have demoted the story. We've
changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn't
happen again. For instance, we no longer temporarily demote things
in the US while waiting for fact checkers.
Speaker 5 (01:15:20):
That's not all he said.
Speaker 6 (01:15:23):
Apart from content moderation, I want to address the contribution
I made during the last presidential cycle to support electoral infrastructure.
The idea here these were all the Zuckerbucks that went
to districts who needed money making sure that people could
vote as many times as they needed to and often.
Speaker 5 (01:15:40):
I guess the idea here was to.
Speaker 6 (01:15:42):
Make sure local election jurisdictions across the country had the
resources they needed to help people vote safely during a
global pandemic. I made these contributions through the Chan Zuckerberg initiative.
They were designed to be nonpartisan, spread across urban, rural,
and suburban communities. Despite the analyzes I've seen showing otherwise,
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I know that some people believe this work benefited one
party over the other. My goal is to be neutral
and not play a role one way or the other,
or even to appear to be playing a role, So
I don't plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.
Speaker 5 (01:16:21):
Now here's my question.
Speaker 6 (01:16:23):
Do we get to make a federal elections complaint because
of the unearned media that was given to Joe Biden
by the throttling of the Hunter Biden laptop story and
the Hunter Biden bereisma story and all of the stories
about the Biden family corruption. This is a huge story
and it's just basically like a nothing burger, a nothing burger.
(01:16:47):
If I didn't see it on Twitter, I wouldn't have
seen it at all.
Speaker 5 (01:16:50):
Why is this okay?
Speaker 6 (01:16:52):
Somebody just said, Mandy, so Zuck admits this, and you
still don't think the election was stolen. And before you
say I'm moving the goalpost, I've always included the Democrats
doing anything.
Speaker 5 (01:17:01):
To cheat as part of my goalposts. Most people did not.
Speaker 6 (01:17:05):
And whereas I've been very clear on the fact that
I don't think there was enough actual vote fraud to
move the direction it one way or the other. There
was certainly election interference and this is a perfect example
of it. Perfect example, Mandy, are you kidding? You've gone
full Mike Lindell throwing out early and often apparently someone
(01:17:28):
looking for a lawsuit who's going to sue me? And
I made a throwaway joke and if it's got your
knickers in a twist.
Speaker 5 (01:17:36):
If it hit too close to home, I apologize for nothing.
Speaker 6 (01:17:43):
Show some proof, Mandy, Well, I'm just saying that. Mark
Zuckerberg just admitted that the FBI contacted him about information
that would have been harmful to.
Speaker 5 (01:17:53):
The Biden campaign and they throttled it.
Speaker 6 (01:17:58):
What more proof do you need that's a direct connection
between FBI interference on behalf of a candidate and social media.
We're a vast majority of people currently get their news,
by the way, I think that's pretty pretty damning. It
makes me sad that I no longer trust the FBI.
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But between this and Donald Trump's assassination attempt, they have
lost my Trump my trust entirely.
Speaker 5 (01:18:26):
Quick question that I got via the.
Speaker 6 (01:18:27):
Common Spirit health text line, Mandy, My question is why now?
Why is Zuckerberg releasing this now? Because Joe Biden is
a dead man walking and it's okay to come clean.
And in this case, I think Mark Zuckerberg really is
just doing like he's cleansing his soul, right. He's like,
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I'm just gonna get this off my plate so it
comes out later I can say, yes, it happened, but boy,
we learned our lesson, and gosh darn it, we're never
gonna do that again. Gully g willikers never, never, at all.
And this texture is absolutely right, and of course nothing
will happen nothing at all.
Speaker 5 (01:19:10):
So there you go, There you go.
Speaker 6 (01:19:13):
And someone said, yeah, I can't wait till Trump gets
rid of the FBI and we get the Trump Secret
Police in can't call it the KGB because that's already taken.
Speaker 5 (01:19:24):
I don't want to see the FBI go away.
Speaker 6 (01:19:27):
I want to see everybody at the upper levels of
the FBI fired.
Speaker 5 (01:19:31):
I'd like to see every person at.
Speaker 6 (01:19:32):
The FBI who had anything to do with pushing forward
the Steele dossier, I want to see them fired. I
want to see anybody who was involved with warning and
warning off Facebook about this information.
Speaker 5 (01:19:45):
I want to see them all fired.
Speaker 6 (01:19:47):
I want to see anybody who has been remotely involved
with any kind of political activity by the FBI, I
want to see him fired. And then I want to
see people elevated who believe that the FBI has a
job as America's law enform and they want to return
to that mission of tracking down criminals and catching bad
guys at the federal level. And I want to see
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them step away from politics that never step back. It's
not the first time we've had to do a kind
of a house cleaning at the FBI. It's not the
first time that absolute power has corrupted absolutely at the FBI.
So it's not about just getting rid of the FBI.
It's about ripping out, as they say, root and branch
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all of the people who have politicized an agency. There's
one of the most feared in the United States because
of their power. I don't want them to be working politically.
I want them to be working on law enforcement and
right and wrong, not politics.
Speaker 5 (01:20:47):
So there you go. Mandy Song should be wipeout. That's
another one. I can't hit that. I can't go that high.
Fred would have to lower that have octave for me.
Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
Fred Nix is live, he does.
Speaker 5 (01:21:00):
He is a legend.
Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Fred.
Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
Why now?
Speaker 5 (01:21:03):
I absolutely love Fred. Okay, when we get back, you guys,
I have so.
Speaker 6 (01:21:07):
Much stuff on the blog, and I want to talk
about this story a rod tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
Remind me about this story tomorrow. See what I did there? Yeah,
got to give you a timeframe.
Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
No, it's a story tomorrow. Forget about what everybody.
Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
Say after twenty four hours has elapsed. Remind me about
the story about Americans.
Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
Hey, twenty four hours after Okay, No, tomorrow, I'll remind
you that it's been twenty four hours. To not forget
the thing you're about to say tomorrow. That's fine. I'll
take that, okay, because I'm reminding you about how tomorrow
you something I know? Okay, I have a story today.
Twenty five percent of Americans say their lives are boring.
Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
How much your life is not boring? My life is
need to be a little more boring.
Speaker 5 (01:21:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:21:57):
If you're not bringing main character energy to your life,
I'm going to help you with it Tomorrow. Tomorrow, we're
going to fix boring lives Tomorrow. But when we get back,
we're going to talk to my friend Deborah Flora and
she has been fighting on behalf of kids for years
now and Saturdays, she is one of a amazing lineup
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of speakers that are going to be speaking in DC
at the Kids March March for Kids excuse.
Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
Me in Washington, DC.
Speaker 6 (01:22:26):
And if you wonder why we need that, oh boy,
do I have a story for you about first grade
teaching standards here in Colorado. If you've ever thought to yourself,
you know what first grade needs? It needs kids learning
about sex work. Congratulations, that's what we have in Colorado now,
and this is why we need to protect kids.
Speaker 5 (01:22:46):
Dep Flora coming up next. Dep Flora.
Speaker 6 (01:22:48):
You remember from her race in the fourth Congressional district
that did not go the.
Speaker 5 (01:22:53):
Way we wanted it to go. But she is back
and that doing what.
Speaker 6 (01:22:57):
Really I'm not going to say put you on the map, Deborah,
because that's not giving you enough do. But you have
long been at the forefront of fighting for our children
in a variety of ways, and now you are going
to be on a big stage and Saturday in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 5 (01:23:15):
First of all, welcome back to the show. Great to
be here, Mandy, as always, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
Good to be here.
Speaker 6 (01:23:20):
So tell me a little bit about what's happening Saturday
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 5 (01:23:24):
I'm so excited about this.
Speaker 9 (01:23:25):
You and I've talked about how movements in history, the
vast majority of them, never make a lasting change. Most
of them get to a certain point plateau, then taper off.
When we think of movements that have made a difference,
there's a suffrage move it's a civil rights movement. Something
happened to bring it to critical mass with lasting change.
The movement I've been a part of that you're talking about,
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is the parental rights, educational freedom of protecting children, girls' sports.
I've been fighting for that for a long time, first
of all as a mom, someone who just cares.
Speaker 5 (01:23:56):
And by the way, that's why most of us will
never stop fighting for this because we can.
Speaker 9 (01:24:00):
Having started Parents United America, introduced curriculum, transparency, legislation, done
the documentary, etc. And what I've always had a vision
for I spoke with someone who Tina Dskovich, and with
the same vision.
Speaker 5 (01:24:13):
It's time to have a march for kids.
Speaker 9 (01:24:17):
And what we're doing on Saturday in Washington, DC is
the first ever March for Kids. And the wonderful thing
about this, Amandy, is it transcends.
Speaker 5 (01:24:28):
All the rest of the polarization.
Speaker 9 (01:24:29):
We've got people who are coming from every political spectrum,
from every ethnic group, from every religious group, and that
is what it's about.
Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
So we're coming together.
Speaker 9 (01:24:37):
I'll be speaking at the first ever March for Kids
Saturday this coming Saturday, August thirty first, along with people
like doctor Alvita King, Tulca Gabbard, Glenn Beck, and many
others who've been at the front of this movement. Because
I believe that after COVID, everybody woke up and that
was a moment in history. But if parents don't stay engaged,
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this movement will go by the wayside of many others.
We've got to get to critical mass because just because
kids are back in school does not mean the things
that are happening there that may be antithetical to a
family's values are not still happening.
Speaker 5 (01:25:14):
Case in point, if I do, if I may.
Speaker 6 (01:25:19):
Today from X, I have to give a lot of
a big shout out for Aaron for parental rights. She
has a wonderful Twitter feed that always has great information.
She dug into the first grade social study standards. And
in case you were thinking to yourself, you know what,
first greed needs more talk about sex work.
Speaker 5 (01:25:39):
Good news. Good news.
Speaker 6 (01:25:41):
Now in Colorado, our six year olds are going to
have the opportunity to learn about sex work. How is
this all going to come about. They're going to teach
them about the Stonewall riots. They're going to teach them
about the two people who kind of kicked off the
Stonewall riots, who, in addition to being drag queens not
necessarily women, but drag queens also sex.
Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
Traffic young boys that they picked up off the streets.
Speaker 6 (01:26:06):
And that is the context which your six year old
is going to hear that Johnson and rivera recognized that
many transgender people turned to sex work after being rejected
by their families, setting it up for first graders to
understand if they ever have gender dysphoria, sex work and
cutting off from their families is the best option.
Speaker 7 (01:26:26):
You know.
Speaker 9 (01:26:26):
And I found myself laughing when you said that, not
out of amusement.
Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
Just out of just sheer absurdities. And that is the problem.
Speaker 10 (01:26:35):
I Mean.
Speaker 5 (01:26:35):
One of the things that I love about this March for.
Speaker 9 (01:26:38):
Kids that we're having on Saturday is because when I
talk to people from any different spectrum, I mean, you know,
you've got the Muslim dads in Detroit who are standing
up against the sexualized.
Speaker 5 (01:26:47):
Of their children.
Speaker 9 (01:26:48):
I've let a rally down at our Capitol building and
it was bilingual because half of the folks who showed
up were Hispanic standing against the sexualization of their children.
This transcends everything, because why this is happening is most.
Speaker 5 (01:27:02):
People don't know. Most people really just believe.
Speaker 9 (01:27:05):
They're going to send their child off to school, they're
going to learn how to read and write.
Speaker 5 (01:27:09):
And the reality is right here in Colorado. I haven't
seen the latest statistics, but.
Speaker 9 (01:27:13):
I think was last year less than forty percent read
a grade level. Less than thirty percent do math at
grade level. And by the way, this burden's teachers. Can
you imagine your first grade teacher. Really, that's when children
begin to learn to read and no, instead you're supposed
to be teaching them.
Speaker 5 (01:27:29):
About all of these adult topics.
Speaker 9 (01:27:32):
And when we look at really this mental health issue
we have with kids today, we're creating.
Speaker 5 (01:27:40):
The problem and trying to fix the problem.
Speaker 6 (01:27:42):
So how are these kids going to be able to
count their money from the sex work if they can't
do math? Deborah, maybe the strategy we need to use
that's the truck.
Speaker 9 (01:27:51):
Question, because I would I would buck against the premise
they shouldn't be counting money from that kind.
Speaker 5 (01:27:56):
Of work period. But out there Aaron does great work
on that.
Speaker 9 (01:28:00):
And the reality is my concern who has always been
we've got to get this to critical mass. We have
got to remind parents that these things are still going on.
But there's a lot of great news of what's happening,
Mandy and I want to share that too. For instance,
you have the stand that's happening across the country to
protect girls' sports and safe spaces. Yes, everybody understands this
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is not a matter of treating every child with dignity.
We all believe in that, but everybody understands it's fundamentally.
Speaker 5 (01:28:31):
Unfair for a girl to either be forced.
Speaker 9 (01:28:34):
To shower next to an anatomical mail or to compete
against him.
Speaker 6 (01:28:38):
You are literally any agency. You're taking away her agency
to say this is not okay. Yeah, because if you
say it's not okay, well you're transphobic. They call you
a name and send you out of the sports world.
Speaker 9 (01:28:49):
With And the reality is I spoke to a mom
the other day whose daughter had always dreamt of being
an Olympic runner, and at.
Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
The age of twelve, she decided to quit because she
her mother and said, what does it even matter? What
does it matter? Because she was watching the Olympics, she
was watching some of the stories there, and she.
Speaker 9 (01:29:06):
No longer believes in the United States of America she
can pursue her dream and therefore doesn't matter how far
she goes in sports. But she no longer believes that
she will be protected in her own sport and have
a right to an even playing field.
Speaker 5 (01:29:20):
That's just wrong. But the positive part is.
Speaker 9 (01:29:23):
Across the country you see people waking up and saying, okay,
wait a second, you can't just call somebody a name
and silence a real conversation about what is right.
Speaker 5 (01:29:33):
Another bright spot.
Speaker 9 (01:29:34):
Another thing I'm working with is a Scholarships. I'm on
the board of A Scholarships which has a longstanding twenty
five year history of supporting low income students so they're
not trapped by their zip code and they can succeed.
Speaker 5 (01:29:47):
They're also now and I'm working with them on the.
Speaker 9 (01:29:49):
ESA movement that's taking over in red states across the country.
That literally is an education savings account. What that does
it gives the money back to the parents. The money
fallows student, not the system. We're going to see a
revolution if we keep on going down this pathway, a
positive one that will.
Speaker 5 (01:30:08):
Achieve lasting change. So there are bright spots.
Speaker 9 (01:30:10):
Well, we've got to make sure we keep this at
the forefront of the conversation and show nationally.
Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
I invite everybody to go to.
Speaker 9 (01:30:16):
March four Kids, that's four Kids dot Com join us
on Saturday. Like I said, doctor Lvita King will be there,
tying this in with the civil rights movement of her uncle,
Talsea Gabbard, Glenn Beck, a lot of great people, and
I'm going to be honored to be speaking there as well.
Speaker 6 (01:30:32):
There's quite a few heavy hitters on this list, and
are they do you know if this is going to
be streamed on c Span or any of that stuff,
because traditionally they'll try to pick something up.
Speaker 9 (01:30:44):
But this is the first year for this march, right,
this is the very first one, and so anyone who
comes can be a part of the inaugural situation. We
hope for this to be the newest ongoing march. We
know the March for Life has been going on ever
since nineteen seventy three, the longest lasting Monk, which has
made very large changes. We hope that this is the
next longest March until we achieve complete parental rights, educational freedom,
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getting education back to just a place where kids learn
and flourish from opening their minds, not being told what
to think, but how to think critically, how to have
the skills to succeed.
Speaker 5 (01:31:23):
That's what this is really about. And it's not just education,
it's medical freedom as well.
Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:31:27):
You know, you're a mom. I'm a mom. I remember
the moment our.
Speaker 9 (01:31:30):
Our children turned twelve and they were asked if they
wanted to go back by themselves without us, who decided that.
Speaker 6 (01:31:39):
I mean in our family, I was like, oh, I'm sorry,
is she paying the copaye? Because she's not paying to
pay then I'm coming in there. And my daughter was like,
I don't care. I mean sure, it's fine. The the
the inter the intervention between the parental child relationship has
never been under attack like it is right now.
Speaker 5 (01:32:01):
Not in history. Now.
Speaker 6 (01:32:02):
There were times when children were seen not heard. There
were times when children were raised by someone else. There
were times when people had ten or twelve children because
only five would survive, right, and they needed them to
work in the fields. But I don't ever recall a
time when the government was actively working at every level
that we're in. I mean from the school board level.
We've talked a lot about like Cherry Creek schools. If
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you have a kid in Cherry Creek, you need to
understand what your school board is advocating for. If you're
in chef Co, you need to know that they are
actively working to separate you from your child when it
comes to school.
Speaker 5 (01:32:39):
And you're right, this is a fundamental shift.
Speaker 9 (01:32:41):
The reason why we called our documentary Whose Children Are They?
Is because there's two worlds views. The American experiment, which
has produced the greatest prosperity and happiness in many ways
in human history is based on the Western civilization idea
that the family is the building block that is the
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number one source of strength in a culture. That's where
governance starts within the family unit.
Speaker 5 (01:33:08):
And it goes out from there.
Speaker 9 (01:33:09):
There's an exact opposite view, I called the statist view.
I saw it in the Soviet Union, in East Germany
other places where I've been, and they truly believe it
is the state's right responsibility to educate the child on everything. Worldview, morality,
political view. The first allegiance is to the state, not
to the family unit. All you have to do is
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read nineteen eighty four and you see.
Speaker 5 (01:33:31):
It first hand. So we're at that crossroads, and it
is this is why I.
Speaker 9 (01:33:37):
Think this march is so important. This is not just
about families, as though that wasn't even enough. It's about
the very cornerstone of our civilization. And if that breaks down,
we're talking about the future of our country. You know,
Lincoln said, what's taught in the classroom today will be
in the government tomorrow. So there's politicization in the classroom.
There is a goal to separate the nuclear family and
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divide and who has ultimate authority over decision making for
the child. You know, I'm not saying every parent is
perfect by any means, and.
Speaker 5 (01:34:07):
We have laws to take care of that.
Speaker 9 (01:34:09):
But you know, Mandy, you know better than any bureaucrat,
what makes your child happy or sad, what food they like,
what food they don't like, how they work best, how
they don't work best. The parents truly do know. But
there has been something in our culture that's been working
to discredit parents as the problem, not actually the ultimate authority.
Speaker 6 (01:34:33):
And you just have to look at the way the
media took comments by Jade Vance talking about I think
that people with kids their their you know, votes should
have more weight. The man didn't propose legislation. He was
making a bigger point about your viewpoint when you were
a parent. And as a matter of fact, I have
a story on the blog today totally kind of unrelated,
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but it's about they did a study on which parts
of your brain light up when they when you think
about love, and parental love was the deepest in our brain.
Speaker 5 (01:35:03):
It was the most intense in our brain.
Speaker 6 (01:35:06):
And yet JD Vance saying, look, people with children have
a different worldview of the world they're leaving behind, which
I agree with. But you would have thought he would
have said, if you don't have kids, you should go
jump off a cliff, And you would have thought that
he had said, if you're a single parent, you should
go jump off a cliff. He said none of that,
but the reaction was so visceral and so immediate to
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shut it down and make him look like some kind
of maniac because he's advocating for the traditional nuclear family,
that's two parents and children. Yes, and study after study
after study shows that the big advantage for kids is
two parents, way more than socioeconomic, way more than what
neighborhood they live in. If they have two parents in
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the home, they are far more likely to succeed. And
yet that statistical information seems to just annoy people on
the other side.
Speaker 9 (01:35:55):
It's interesting too, because it's only coming from one side.
I don't see parents going around and telling those who
are single or don't have kids how they need to
live their lives, what they.
Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
Need to do.
Speaker 9 (01:36:05):
This needs to get back to a situation where we
honor and we respect one another's rights, one another's rights
to live free. When I started Parents United in America,
one of the things that I spoke very deeply and
thought about when we formed it. This is for every
parent's right. It doesn't mean I tell another parent how
they need to raise their children. I mean, obviously there
are laws to protect children, et cetera. But this is
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really about the fact that I honor respect that they
know their children better than anyone else.
Speaker 5 (01:36:33):
I know my kids better than anyone else.
Speaker 9 (01:36:35):
We have two children in the minute you have to
you suddenly realize how different every child is.
Speaker 5 (01:36:39):
On top of it.
Speaker 6 (01:36:40):
Oh, yes, and they're not little miniature used that's the
most parenting. You're like, wait a minute, Yes, I spawned
this person and they're nothing like me.
Speaker 8 (01:36:49):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (01:36:50):
And I think it's very important the future of our
country because if this building block gets broken down, then
we have something where some only everything has been institutionalized.
Everything is now no longer that human touch and interaction.
And by the way, I've always said that, you know,
if our founding.
Speaker 5 (01:37:10):
Fathers had ever thought we would get to this day.
Speaker 9 (01:37:14):
Where the most fundamental basic right of the parents would
be questioned, parent rights would have been in.
Speaker 5 (01:37:20):
The Bill of Rights. But to me, I believe was
unthinkable to them.
Speaker 9 (01:37:24):
It's the cornerstone of Western civilization and we've got to
protect it and let everybody live freely.
Speaker 6 (01:37:30):
Well, you can find out more information. I linked to
this on the blog so you can see the speakers.
They have a lot of I'm trying to find out
if they have a stream it button, but we'll find out.
I'll see if I can find out where they are
going to be where you can see this.
Speaker 5 (01:37:46):
So it's interesting that.
Speaker 6 (01:37:48):
You've got all these speakers coming forward. And I'm wondering
how much much like the March for Life, which brings
hundreds of thousands of people to DC every year for
fifty years. Yes, it's like it never happens every year.
It's like, oh, some people showed up and did a thing.
Speaker 7 (01:38:04):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:38:04):
It's amazing to me how carefully the news media will
avoid this.
Speaker 9 (01:38:09):
We absolutely We were actually at the March for Life
a couple of times, and what we were overwhelmed by
was that out of hundreds of thousands of people, over
half of them were young people, and the spirit was
absolutely so uplifting and joyful. It's not an angry crowd,
and by the way they cleaned up after themselves. I
would talk to the people, you know, that were over
the parks and the entire situation the mall, and they're like,
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it's the neatest, tidiest gathering we've ever seen. And there
are these young people that are growing purposely picking things up.
Speaker 5 (01:38:38):
That's the thing.
Speaker 9 (01:38:39):
This is the first inaugural one, so we are, you know,
moderating our anticipation, but this is to launch it, to
get it off the ground and to say, let's keep
this going until we achieve either a parental rights amendment
or we have enough laws in place in states around
the country so that we never are on this precipice again.
This is the best thing for every child to have
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those who know them best, whatever that family looks like,
the people who know them best making the decisions, partnering
with good teachers, partnering with good medical professionals, but not
being shut out. And that is something where I think
we're going to turn this around. It we're going to
turn our country around and where we can finally reach
out to the vast majority of Americans who agree with
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this and make a lasting change.
Speaker 6 (01:39:26):
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you just said, and I
hope this march is wildly successful for two reasons. One,
I want to rattle the cages of parents who might
be getting complacent and let them know that they nothing
has changed in the schools, and if anything, some school
districts have gotten even more shady and more certain to
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hide things from parents. And if we do not pass
laws that supersede these school districts and school boards, we
are going to have an absolutely disaster of parents being
separated from their children by the government because schools are
government run and things are only going to go downhill
from there.
Speaker 9 (01:40:08):
And I think it's a wonderful opportunity what I see
that's so exciting.
Speaker 5 (01:40:12):
I was just at the State Policy Network caring about
all these other things.
Speaker 9 (01:40:15):
There are micro schools, there are homeschool co ops, there
are all kinds of revolutionary new ideas that are coming
in because, honestly, as we all know, even if you
just judge our government run schools by an academic standpoint,
they are going in the absolute wrong direction. America is
no longer leading the industrialized nations.
Speaker 5 (01:40:35):
On most of the markers.
Speaker 9 (01:40:36):
I mean, we're down lower and lower and lower every time.
So it's time for us to unleash this ability to
innovate in education, for people to take hold of that,
and there is basically in many.
Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
Ways, a public school exit.
Speaker 10 (01:40:49):
Now.
Speaker 9 (01:40:50):
I also hope public schools don't get turned around, because
that is the option for many people. But it's about
making sure that it's responsive to the stakeholders, which at
the end end of the day are the academic achievement
of the students, which is really what schools are about.
The parents and the community members. And it's time for
grandparents to get involved. It's for you know, not just moms,
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but dads and people from every walk of life. I
see this happening, all right, debraah Flora, thank you for
your time. You want to play out the day?
Speaker 5 (01:41:19):
Oh well, okay, I'm not sure what it is. It's
really easy.
Speaker 6 (01:41:22):
I did make you play when you were running for office,
but now you have to play because now it's time
for the most exciting segment all the radio.
Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
It's gone.
Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
I can't do it in no work. I mean to
perform that of the day.
Speaker 6 (01:41:37):
Okay, here's how it works as a dad joke of
the day, and the only requirement is you can laugh
or grown or nothing, depending on how.
Speaker 5 (01:41:44):
Bad it is day.
Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
I have to laugh and listen to me it's a
five minute walk from my house to the bar, but
a forty five minute walk from the bar to my house.
Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
The difference is staggering.
Speaker 5 (01:41:54):
Oh geez, so that.
Speaker 6 (01:41:57):
Was a sympathy aff I just know what I go
a right now, we have word of the day where
we guess the meaning of this word.
Speaker 3 (01:42:06):
Okay, yeah, it's a noun and it is propinquity. I'm sorry,
what propinquity spell that?
Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
Can I look it up on my phone? O O
P I N Q N U I T Y Okay,
So it's.
Speaker 6 (01:42:20):
For some put propinquity is that you have a tendency
to drink too much at a cocktail party.
Speaker 5 (01:42:28):
Propinquity, No, it is the level to which your etiquette
is at a tea party. Nice, there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
Yes, it is essentially a synonym of proximity, a formal
word that typically refers to nearness in place or time.
Speaker 9 (01:42:43):
I'll just.
Speaker 5 (01:42:45):
Thank you to a trivia question.
Speaker 6 (01:42:47):
Earth is not the only planet in our solar system
not named for an ancient Greek or Roman deity? In
what language do the word Earth originate?
Speaker 2 (01:42:57):
Earth?
Speaker 6 (01:42:58):
Okay, so it's not named for a Greek or Roman
I'm gonna say Latin. Where would go Latin earth? Let's say,
oh geez, not right?
Speaker 5 (01:43:05):
What incorrect? It was not Latin? Okay, not Latin. It's
not Greek, no German, German? Where it means the ground.
Now we play Jeopardy death flour gosh okay zero, So
you know it's okay. We're all sad at this game.
Speaker 6 (01:43:21):
If you want to answer the question, you shout out Deborah, okay,
and then I'll come to you and you answer the
form of a question I'm getting okay. You don't have
to wait till the end of the question. If you
know it, go ahead and ring in. All right, what
is our category?
Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
Today's category is shall we dance every word as dance
in it? You probably take this at the start of
every class, start of.
Speaker 5 (01:43:45):
Every cloud of every class.
Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
Take this at the start of every class.
Speaker 5 (01:43:49):
I don't know it has the word dance in it?
I got nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
Attendance?
Speaker 11 (01:43:53):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (01:43:57):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (01:43:58):
Now we're in good to that.
Speaker 2 (01:44:00):
We don't need that good blank riddance?
Speaker 5 (01:44:03):
Correct the.
Speaker 10 (01:44:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:44:10):
Let's go with essentially someone out.
Speaker 3 (01:44:12):
Of school that you need to go to if you
ever need help with something, and has the word dance.
Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
Someone at a school, an employee, They help you with stuff.
Speaker 5 (01:44:24):
I don't know, Deborah, what is attendance?
Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
Attendance? What is a guy dance.
Speaker 5 (01:44:34):
Counselor? But they're more when they get you in trouble.
Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
It's an overflowing amount of something.
Speaker 5 (01:44:38):
What is an abundant? Is an abundant sea? One to zero?
Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
You have one?
Speaker 5 (01:44:46):
Yes, I have to.
Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
Give rules. Okay, this is a tie breaker. Yes. Two
things that are in agreement are also in this with
each other.
Speaker 5 (01:45:02):
Oh, oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
Oh wait, no, no, don't don't say anything.
Speaker 5 (01:45:06):
If she I have no idea to say the question
one more time.
Speaker 2 (01:45:11):
Two things that are in agreements are also in this
with each other.
Speaker 6 (01:45:15):
Oh, I know it know.
Speaker 3 (01:45:17):
I mean she didn't say anything, so you still you
know you're wrong? According according.
Speaker 5 (01:45:28):
It, I just wanted because you did worse than me,
though I'm not sure it works. Okay, we got to
make room for ka Sports.
Speaker 6 (01:45:34):
We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you, debbora Flora. We'll talk
to you later, and stick right here with Koe
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
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I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connall,
joined by my right hand man. I call him a
rod You can call him Anthony Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That is still the cutest one ever the other way around.
No people call me Anthony.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
You've never noticed that I switched them back and forth
on a record.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
I never do, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Usually know what your moment to say is you screw
up my name sometimes?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
You don't ever flip those No, I.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Do, No, I actually do consciously.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I do.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well, you don't. I don't. Wow.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
When you're not paying attention made me a trust to me.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm saying, just now, you tell other people you can
call me.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
I know you can call them Anthony Rodriguez. I do
switch it back and forth. Yes, it's true.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I pay attention more than you think.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, let.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
Me just lay some stuff out. The text line is
open always the kaway. Common Spirit Health text line can
be reached by texting five sixty six nine.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
You can always reach out and tell me I'm right
about something via the text line, or if you're a
horrible person, you can tell me I'm wrong about something.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I'm kidding. You're probably not a horrible person.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
You could be a horrible person and agree with me.
But that's okay because you're agreeing with me.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Anyway. Let's talk about the blog.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
You can find it by going to mandy'sblog dot com.
That's Mandy's blog dot com. Look for the headline that
says eight twenty seven twenty four blog an immigrant helping
others succeed and a march for kids. Click on that
and here are the headlines you will find within.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I think its in office half of American, all with
ships and clippas and say that's going to press Platt.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Today on the blog, Ryan Schuling pops in to talk
to GOP politics a piece of Ethiopia. In Aurora, Deborah
Flores talking about kids. If you want to know what
they are protecting kids from, look no further. Children never
needed the COVID vaccine. Aurora formally adopts the step Denver model,
we must add fees to tabor? Does anyone like RTD?
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It's time to ban smartphones in school? Part fifteen hundred
and sixty four, Hey, Kamala, what about dei? The Trump
campaign has released a debate video. Meanwhile, the AP noticed
Kamala is the incumbent. If you think your life is boring,
you're not alone thinking of retiring abroad. Mark Zuckerberg finally
comes clean about government ordered censorship. The Democrats may fool
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America again. Ballotstrop September sixth in North Carolina, Germany screwed
up by doing away with nukes. Another hostage is rescued
by Israel. Why children can't pay attention to the task hand?
Have you ever heard of type one point five diabetes?
Gavin Newsom single handedly cleans up homeless camps.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Why did the FBI clean the roof for Trump shooter?
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Laid love lights up your brain differently for different people.
The call for drug injection sites returns the rotten truth
about bald Eagles and Broncos fan doesn't even spill his beer.
College kid with stupid hair runs into Charlie kirk Blunt
buzzsaw fun with echoes a moment on running form.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Those are the headlines on the blog.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Well done, burnt, well done at nandysquog dot com. Oh
I like that little vibrato at the end that was
they are well.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
They're all sober today.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Uh trumpet trumpets struggling.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Okay, we'll we'll just let him struggle right on out.
Mandy's right, says this texter, she changes it up. I
know this because I always wondered if you like being
called Anthony. No, you at it's a great name. Though
it's a powerful name.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
No one uses this, so it's weird to hear.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Well, yeah, I mean that could be. You're a serious
person with serious people.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
By the way, I didn't give myself a rod. Okay, people,
I'm not that pompous. Yeah, we'll just start to call
me that back in college though, it's just stuck.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Just stuck there, you go.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
That's Most good nicknames have a pretty mundane story behind them.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Like that one. All the talent sterils.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I have a really really good friend whose nickname is
poop or poopster and uh, and I asked him one time.
I was like, Okay, I gotta know where did that
come from? And it's it's not even a good story.
It's just a dumb story. And I don't remember. It
was so bad a story that I don't even remember why.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
He was called that.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
But he's still I still I've known him for thirty
something years and I still call him poop sir. I
know that's a good name. It well, you know what
poop poop? Well, I call him poopster. But then I
never just say, hey, poop, what's up? I call him poopsters.
But then I normally call him by his real name
because I'm not, you know, in high school. So he
does have a real name, which shall remain off the radio.
(05:09):
So he has plausible deniability going forward. A couple things
on the blog that I want to point out to you.
We'll get to today, but we have to start by
talking about the video of Gavin Newsom cleaning up a
homeless camp.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Hey, ro did you see this?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Oh oh boy.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
So here's what's happened in California. Okay, California has become
an absolute dumpster fire and cesspool of homelessness. They have
the largest share of the homeless population in the United
States by a long shot. They have like thirty eight
or thirty nine percent of the homeless people in the
United States are in California, and Gavin Newsom has just
(05:47):
realized that he's being tarred as a bad governor because
of it. So we have a photo op. And I
burst out laughing when I saw this earlier today. Okay,
so you know Gavin Newsom, he of the linen suits
and the crisp white shirts, having dinner at the French
laundry during COVID when we were all being dolled to
stay home. You know that guy, He actually went to
(06:11):
an overpass to clean up a homeless encampment, apparently by himself.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Let me just explain something to you guys.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
About how these photo ops work, using a story from
my own history. Okay, So, in when I was in Louisville, Kentucky,
there was a boys and girls club that had been
run by the Salvation Army for a very long time.
They chose not to renew their contract with boys and
girls clubs because of a lot of dumb stuff and
political back and forth.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
It was just idiocy.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
So Salvation Army decides to sort of desert this boys
and girls club in Louisville, in a real tough neighborhood
in Louisville, and so the Boys and Girls Club took
it back over, but it needed to rehab it needed work,
and it needed to be painted and made nice for
the kids again. So I got on board with this,
and I at him on the show and we talked
about it, and we did a volunteer day where we
(07:02):
had a bunch of listeners come down to this boys
and Girls club in a tough neighborhood in Louisville to
help work on the building.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
And I went and.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
I went to help, and while I was there, Congressman
John Yarmouth, who was my nemesis, nemesis in Louisville. Just so,
he shows up right with the TV cameras and he's,
you know, got in his nice shirt and his nice
slacks or whatever. So they put a paint brush in
his hand and he stands there and paints for like
(07:33):
two minutes or whatever. Then the cameras are like, okay,
We've got everything we need. And then literally he puts
down the paint breath and leaves. So I'm there and
I'm watching all this and I'm standing there. I'm also painting,
So I'm painting and I'm staying there. He comes and goes,
and this guy, one of the volunteers from the from
the neighborhood, came up to me. He goes, what are
(07:54):
you still doing here? And I was like, what you
confuse me? I was like, I'm painting. I mean, do
I need to be doing something else? And he goes, well,
I just figured you'd leave when the camera's left too,
And I was like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm
not a politician. I'm a talk show host. When I
say I'm gonna be somewhere to volunteer, I actually stay
there and actually volunteer for whatever I'm volunteering for. And
(08:17):
he was like, right on, he was. But it was
funny that I wasn't the only one to notice this.
So I am almost certain that Gavin Newsom was at
this site for no more than twenty minutes, no more
a well twenty. He has a good sheen of sweat, Anthony.
He's got a nice like sheen over his sun's screen
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and his moisturizer. He's got a nice sheen of sweat.
So I'm guessing twenty minutes just so he could build
up a little sweat to really sell it and make
it look authentic.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
But I just started.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Laughing, like we're supposed to believe that this is somehow
the personification.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Of Gavin Newsom's herculean.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Efforts to clean up the state that has gone to
absolute garbage under his leadership.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
It's so dumb, and the thing is it will work.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
There's just enough people that only see the sweaty mayor
and they're like, oh, look at him, the sweaty governor.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
He's out there in the trenches.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
He's one of us, God bless gathered.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
He cares. Roddy cares so much. He's a carer.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
He can for you. He will clean up our street.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
You know what, dare I say it? You know how
I feel watching this?
Speaker 6 (09:32):
I feel joy a rod that's the vibe of the
momentating him help joy everybody joy anyway. So I just
I want you to go watch it and just appreciate
it for how fake and how staged it actually is.
Now you've seen or been told about the man behind
(09:54):
the curtain, or should I say the man behind the camera,
And as soon as that guy leaves the governor.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
There is audi. So you know what, here's the thing.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
As someone who actually spent quite a bit of time
in California in the nineties and loved it. Aside from
the whole earthquake thing that was not cool, never got
used to that, did not like earthquakes, do not like,
do not recommend zero stars. But other than that, California
was magnificent. The weather is unbeatable. It's just beautiful country.
(10:25):
So I want California to get it together. But I
don't want this guy to act like all of a
sudden he's tough on the situation he allowed to fester
in his city. I don't want that, you know, uh,
Mayor Mike Johnston and I don't have this on the
blog today, but it is exactly what we're talking about
right now. Voters in a certain part of Denver are
(10:49):
going to be able to vote themselves into an economic
development zone and it's going to encompass most of the
downtown tourists corridor, right It'll be pretty large, and that
money is going to be designated to improve that area
and bring people back to downtown Denver. Another story I
(11:09):
read and put on the blog is that Denver downtown
vacancies are around thirty three percent office vacancies. That is
an unsustainably high number.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
That's the kind of vacancy.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Rate that leads to a death spiral that it is
extremely difficult to get out of. And if I know
one single thing from doing this show and from reading
emails and from reading text messages, it is this. Until
you and I can drive our cars to downtown Denver
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and park them with the expectation that we are going
to return and the car is going to be there unmolested,
and then we can get out of our cars and
walk down the streets of downtown Denver once again without
having to run into someone completely whacked on on drugs
that we we don't know whether or not they're going
to lunde a us, push us into the street, or
(12:03):
otherwise cause us harm.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
And then we get to.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Our destination, enjoy ourselves, and be able to walk back.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
To the car with the same experience. People are not.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Going to go back to downtown Denver, and every bit
of money that is spent on anything other than public
safety is wasted at this moment in time.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I firmly believe that, and this.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Is exactly what Gavin Newsom allowed to happen in huge
parts of Los Angeles. The last time we were in
LA and we went from lax to the Port of
Los Angeles to get on.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
A cruise ship.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Under every single overpass, at every single intersection. There were
homeless encampments everywhere, everywhere. And that's like a forty five
minute drive, you guys. And that wasn't even a heavy
traffic forty five minutes.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
So I'm glad.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I'm super glad that Democrats have gotten the message that
rampant homeless and allowing people to take over and just
be drug addicts in your streets is not okay with
the rest of society. I'm glad they've finally got the message.
But good lord, does anyone take him seriously here?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
I just couldn't, Mandy, California is still a great place.
When is the last time you've been there. It's been
a while. And I'm not anti California. Like I said,
I hope they can get it together. But I used
to absolutely love San Francisco.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
It used to be one of my favorite.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
It used to be one of my favorite cities in
the world, like top five cities in the world.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Great things can come from California. Great things avocados. Oh
you were born in California or are you a transplant?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Two? Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Let's set right now. I'm just kidding. My family moved
here when I was two. Am I a native or no.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
You are a transplant with extremely deep roots, whereas I
am a transplant with medium roots because I've only been
here eleven years thirteen?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Wait what year is it? Eleven years?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
A vast majority of the last two handfuls of people
that have asked me where I'm from, and then I
let them make the judgment. They've telled me you count
as a native. Well I would count you, Okay.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Natives are weird here, though.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
I am from Florida originally, where much like Colorado, there
are way more transplants in Florida than there are native
born citizens, way more because everybody moves from Jersey. We
got to move down to Maco from mass I mean,
everybody in Florida is from somewhere else. So but I'm
a native. But I never got like super protectionist about it.
(14:31):
But here people are downright snippy.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I trust snippy. I trust our listeners. Let's decide this
once and for all the commons. Beer Health text line
five six six nine zero. I will do before you
finish the sentence.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yes, yes, are you sure you want to abide, yes,
by what the internet says on the.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Tech now I do Okay, so native or no?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, just say native or no.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Been here for twenty eight years, got here when he
was two, so all of his form of years have
been here in Colorado. Is the a native or not?
Native or not? Text it to five sixty six nine.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Oh, he will.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Abide, bibe.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I think this is a mistake. It's kind of like
asking the internet to name your child. You never want
to do that.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
My buddy Paul says, name it.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Yeah, we're in California. Were you born? Someone wants to
know as if that matters?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Wlading Caster near in La.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Okay, Southern California. Yep, Southern California is like its own
country right there.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You know, so far not looking good?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Nope, I think you made a bad choice.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's fine. I don't care.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Throwing that out there now.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Today on the show, we have a bunch of stuff
that has nothing to do with California, I promise you.
And boy, do we have a lot to talk about
coming up in about I don't.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Know, thirteen fourteen minutes.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Our friend Ryan Shuling, you're very familiar with it and
him he is actually a Native Michigander, and if you
didn't know this, the Michigan GOP went through a very
similar thing that the Colorado GOP is going through now,
and I wanted to talk to him to find out
what actually happened, how it happened, in the hopes that
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we can look to Michigan and the Republican National Committee
for guidance on whether or not we are going to
move forward with Chairman Eli Brimmer, who I've already recognized
as the official chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. You
didn't really think this was going to go any other way,
did you.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I mean, there's a lot more people say native than
I thought the last majority say yeah, that's okay, that's okay. Yeah,
I'm just a special person at least because it's it's
because it's California. If it was any other state, maybe Texas.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Everyone.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
I have lived here for sixty one years, and no,
I'm still not a native.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
So you're either born here you're not.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's fine, Yeah, cool story. Hey we moved here when
I was two. Yeah, there it is.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yeah, well yeah, no, you're you're sorry, Hey, Rod, that's okay.
At at one o'clock, I'm super excited to talk about
our guest.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
At one there was.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
A really good story on CBS four about a man
named Samuel Gabrie Michael and he is an Ethiopian immigrant
who came here about I think about sixteen seventeen years ago,
and he started over, created a business from scratch, and
now he is helping other Ethiopian immigrants come to the
(17:18):
United States and take advantage of the American dream.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
He's also trying to bring.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
A feel for his culture and African culture to Aurora.
So he's got a film festival that we're going to
talk about that is happening this week. I'm just I
love great immigrant stories. I love people who still recognize
that this is the greatest country in the world and
they want to come here and take advantage of the
opportunities and be a part of the American dream. I
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don't believe that the American dream is dead. I think
that too many young people in this country have bought
into the notion that the American dream is dead because
it lets them off the hook for pursuing it. Immigrants
don't have that same hang up because they've come from
actual poverty. They've come from actual destitute economies. So what
they're doing, you know, what they see here is nothing
(18:07):
but opportunity, whereas native born people want to complain because
it's not as great as it was in.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
You know, Eyah, several people saying you're a semi native aerd.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Like I'm losing respect because you're trying to claim it.
I'm not trying to claim I'm a native. I don't
claim it. I'm just saying a lot of people that
tell me, oh, you count I just want to know.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
If that's the vast majority. That's fine. Hey, I was
born in California. Being in Colorado most of my life,
there's the story I'll have to say I'm a native.
I'm not. It's fine.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
All I want to say is I grew up in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Correct, I grew up in Colorado. Don't remember California.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I don't think that.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
There's anything wrong with saying I'm from Colorado.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
If you've been here.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Since you're two, but from doesn't mean you're saying you're
a native like I'm from Like.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
My daughter was born in Florida, but she spent almost,
you know, eleven months of her life there, so she's
not from Florida.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
She's a Florida Native, but she's not from Florida.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Five years were spent here, you know, but she's not
a native Colorado. But if she said I'm from Colorado,
I would be.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Like, okay, we're talking with me formative.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I mean everything after two years old has been in Colorado,
So just saying yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
A lot of people again the.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Text line, many with the exact same way I thought
it would in Colorado, are extremely passionate about being native
or not.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
It has a little taste of the sneeches.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
To me, it's because it's California, but you know it's not.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
It's the whole native of your thing feels like a
little bit like the sneeches, like you have stars upon
the ours.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Thank you. And as soon as mister.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Mc monkey mc bean shows up with a Native Colorado machine,
you're all going to be like, oh, I don't want
to be a native.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Now people are saying semi native.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I don't know, CAUSEI native. Semi native, your native.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Ish, sure, call me what you want.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Also today on the show, we've got Deborah Flora coming on.
She is still fighting for kids and this weekend she
is going to be part of the March for k
is in.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Washington, DC. That should be massive.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
We're going to talk about that, and when we get back,
I've got Ryan.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Schulling coming up. We're going to talk about.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
What may be a way forward for the newly elected
leadership of the Colorado GOP based on a very similar
thing that happened in Michigan.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
We're going to do that next. Keep it here on KOA.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
You can, of course, hear Ryan on another station only
after my show is over.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Of course, I call it the Mandy Connell post game show.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's perfect, which you actually listened.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
To on occasion, I guess by you. Yes, So I
really appreciate that he's.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Around six point thirty k how and I highly recommend
a very entertaining program.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Now you can catch my first hour on the podcast,
because you've got to listen to Mandy's third hour live.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
And this is why Ryan is the best. He understands
how the game is played right here. You know what
I mean, Let's talk about how the game was played
in Michigan because we here and I know you've talked
about this on your program as well. The debracle of
the Colorado Republican Party where we now have I, by
the way, officially recognized Eli Brammer yesterday as the chairman
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of the GOP, much like the UN recognizes a country.
So I have recognized him. So there is no question, okay,
that he is the chairman of the GOP now. But
unfortunately the old chair, the grifter, Dave Williams, is clinging
to power like Norma Desmond, clinging to start him in
Sunset Boulevard. I like that reference, and he's not going anywhere.
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What it's going to take is somebody's going to have
to tell him to leave. And this is where I'm
bringing Ryan in because this exact same thing just happened
in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Almost It's uncanny, Mandy, the parallels between the Republican Party
and Colorado here in my home state of Michigan, and
it's not that surprising to find out that both parties
are struggling immensely. Michigan is a purple state, a lot
more purple than I would say Colorado is now, which
is essentially blue, but it leans blue, and it's always
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lean blue that in my lifetime that I can remember
the Union guys a lot of Union, a lot of
University Michigan, Michigan in state central, western Eastern you have
a strong Detroit populace that is pretty safely blue, and
that's what really flipped Michigan from Trump in twenty sixteen
to Biden in twenty twenty. Biden also had that appeal
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like you're talking about with the UAW workers in Macomb
County specifically.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
But it's leadership.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
It's a top down process, and the old saying is
a fish rots from the head down, right, And Dave
Williams has taken this party in Colorado, and I believed,
in some ways kind of intentionally driven it off the cliff.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I said to.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
A friend I was having a conversation with him, like
could he be a Democrat plant? That's what I was
undering because genuinely, and I'm not seriously saying this as
a conspiracy theory, but if you were the Democrats and
you wanted to destroy the Republican Party, could you come
up with a better prototype on how to do that
then to get Dave Williams installed as the chairman.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Another way to ask that question that I've done on
my show and with you, I think is if you
were trying to undermine and destroy the Republican Party from within,
what would you do differently than anything? Dave Williams Kristan
to this point. Correct, because what we saw, Mandy, what
you saw personally at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee
was tremendous unity.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I talked to Heidi Ganal who was.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
There too, and it even effervests to the Republican Party
of those that were inttended's from Colorado here, including yourself
and Heidi Ganal. But the leadership seems hell bent on
just you know, driving headlong into the fire, no matter,
you know, damn the torpedoes and if we lose, so
what well, No, the the name of the game is winning.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It doesn't mean you compromise values.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
But in Michigan, what we've seen is this cartoonish kind
of caricature of trump Ism, and people think they know
Trump is I think better than Donald Trump himself because
they try to apply these litmus tests. Now we're a
purity test of well, you're not Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
You know Donald Trump would not pass your lyrics test.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Correct, And that's exactly what Dave Williams said here.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
And Christina Caramo is the name you want to keep
an ear out for in Michigan because she's Dave Williams.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And Carnage.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I like that, but it was the same thing.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
It's like this very narrow cabal of leadership. It's a
battle of attrition. It's a battle of subtraction rather than addition.
That's that's really where I drew the line. As you
and I both are very strong supporters of the log
Cabin Republicans here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I think they're a key group.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Valtimore Archillette is a tremendous voice as the president. And
to send out such a defamatory and inflammatory and painful email,
to what purpose.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Does that serve? To what point are you trying to
prove now.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Are trying to bring to the party with that?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
You're not, You're trying to kick people out. So how
do you plan to win elections that way? Yet you're
not You're not So In Michigan, Christina Caromel similarly felt
like she had her eyes on the prize, her fingers
on the pulse of trump Ism and what it means
we got to go ultra right maga in Michigan. I'm
telling you the history of Republicans in Michigan who win,
who win, like John Angler, Ye, like Snyder, Rick Snyder,
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who both served English served three terms before they narrowed
that to a two term limit. Jennifer Granhold, the Democrat,
followed then Rick Snyder. Michigan's gone back and forth of it.
But the types of Republicans who win in Michigan are
not very trumpy. They're not super duper far right Republican conservative.
It's kind of a it's a delicate balance. It's a
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narrow path to walk. Mike Rodgers, who's running for Senate
this year, he can win, but again, you got to
thread a needle in Michigan to win as a Republican.
And Caramo they were practically bankrupt. This is another thing
that they were sharing in common with Dave Williams Heere
and Colorado.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
They weren't.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
We're raising money and Pete Hookster comes in.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now there's this separation and it happens here too, between
the grassroots so called movement, and the established and kind
of people will call them rhinos or whatever. But the
rhinos win in Michigan. I got to say it just flatly.
And so Hookster comes in, he's not very well liked
at all the grassroots. They're booing him at this assembly.
And Caramo comes in kind of in a stealth manner.
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She's already been booted the Republican National Congression Committee.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
How would she actually get booted because she did the
party membership call a meeting like they did here.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
What was that cross, same exact thing, same thing, and
she was voted out and same thing as Dave Williams.
She was like, no, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I'm not leaving. She's doing the whole wolfle Wall Street thing. Yeah, exactly, No,
you got to leave.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
And so the National Party had to come in and say, no,
you are leaving.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
This is what's been decided. This is who we are recognizing.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
We've already seen a little bit of that from the
NRCC here in Colorado with regard to Eli Bremmer and
then Hookstra. He takes control of the gabble. He's running
these meetings, he's running this assembly and she sneaks in
ostensibly to endorse this other candidate. Sure, we know why
you're there. So they asked her to leave. She doesn't
want to leave. It turns into a scene. The police
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escort her out of the buildings.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
They did.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I mean, this is the state of things than the
Michigan Republican party, and again we can really relate to
it here in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
I'm just wondering how quickly the RNC is going to act,
because if the NRCC has already recognized the change and
is recognizing as I have, Eli Bremmer is the rightful
chair of the Republican Party in Colorado, they need to
do it like today, right. It needs to happen sooner
rather than later. The writing is on the wall. Dave
Williams is on his way out. I don't care how
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hard his little fingernails dig in. He's on his way out.
He will not be saved by some asinine meeting under
a bridge or any other meeting called. He's just we
have to move beyond this. And I'm excited to see.
I'm following Eli Bremmer on X and he's already calling candidates,
he's already calling donors. He's already doing the things that
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Dave Williams never did.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
He might have said this to you, and I know
he just said it to Dan Caplis, my cohort over
there on khow that he had reached out to say
Jeff Hurt, the third professional candidate in a very difficult
race against Adam.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Frish, a very well funded opponent.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
And Eli said when he reached out to Jeffer, that's
the first time that the State Party had reached out to.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Because the State Party under Dave Williams endorsed Ron Hanks.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Yeah, honestly, the Ron Hanks, Tina Peters part of this
party needs to sit down and shut up, like just sick.
I'm thinking about doing a musical about Tina I should
I do you imagine? I think that with Ai, I
could write some big numbers, like you know, like where
she compares herself to Jesus. I mean, I think Tina
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Peters the musical has legs. Yeah, So working on the
book now and then I'll get to the score.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I will definitely wants to help me. Well, there was
heard in the third that rhymes then, Gabe Evans. This
is the one that really sets me off. Here is
this young, accomplished, just a stellar candidate in the eighth
congressional a winnable district that Barb Kirkmeyer very narrowly lost
to Yadira Kravo last time around, the first time that
this district has been in play since we expanded after
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the census. And rather than the report the Republican Party here,
Dave Williams the leadership getting behind a solid conservative and
Gabe Williams, a guy who's a military veteran overseas, who's
a police veteran as well, who has served in our
General Assembly, has all this experience.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Sharp guy comes and he endorsed his opponent.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
I saw Janet Josie at the World County Women's Rumble
and uh, anyway.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
No, no, the broader point and this is where I
think everything turned for me because I'm like, okay, I'm
kind of keeping tabs up this.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I tried to do the Michael Corleone thing, right. I
don't want to overreact.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
I don't want to study Corleon and I don't want
to come in guns blast and I'm waiting. Then Lauren
Bobert came out with a statement, and that's when I went, okay.
So I'm hopefully going to have some conversations with Lauren
about this and in the near future show.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I understand she's.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Already talking to Eli Bremmer, and those conversations.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
If Lauren Bobert, who is, in my opinion, the most
prominent member of our part for this state right now,
because Doug Lambourn's on the way out right. If she
throws her support behind Eli, that's it. It's it, It's over.
But what Dave Williams at that point, what are you doing?
What are you doing? Lauren Bolbert? Even who Dave Williams
did endorse, I think that was a matter of convenience.
But you know, if Lauren Bolbert is not on his side,
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you know who that matters.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Yes, Bolbert, that's what I'm say saying, you out left shouling.
You can listen to his show right after this one
on six thirty.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Kid.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
No.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
I appreciate the insight because I think that's where we're
head of the RNC has to recognize, just like U
leadership and just move on.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Time to move on. People will be right.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Back after this. If you had been able, dear listener,
to listen to my show since its inception in Fort Myers, Florida,
in two thousand and five, you would know that throughout
the years, I have spent an exorbitant amount of time
on certain topics that really were not important to anybody
else but me.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Number one, Venezuela. I started talking about Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
In two thousand and five letting people know that it's
collapse was imminent. I just didn't know how long imminent
was going to take. That's thing number one. Thing number
two cursive handwriting. How important it is for our kids
to learn cursive handwriting for reasons that go well beyond
actually being able to read cursive There's all kinds of
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studies that show that it helps make important brain connections
for kids.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Thing number three litter.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
It's the surest sign of the downfall of a civilization.
If we can't even be bothered to clean up after ourselves,
how are we going to keep our society nice? And
now Number four cell phones in the classroom. And I
say this as the mom of a fifteen year old
in a public high school in Colorado. So before all
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the parents start freaking out because we've had more than
our share of school shootings here in Colorado, I need
you to think of a more or rather should I
say larger threat to our kids. And that is what
smartphones have done to this generation who have had them
in their lives since birth. Study after study after study
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has already shown that students have a high leveled anxiety
about their cell phones. Study after study has shown that
students have a shorter attention span because of their cell phones.
Bullying is up because of cell phones, and a lot
of students report self report that they are addicted to
(32:28):
cell phones. For teenagers say their cell phones make them anxious.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
So what is something we can do.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
We can keep cell phones out of the classroom. And
there are more and more studies that are showing this,
and by the way, a lot of school districts have
already adopted this. Across the country. Teachers report things like, hey,
guess what students are talking to each other.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
They're actually what's that word?
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Listening in class and participating in class. Now, let's do
think to yourself, my little Susie or my little Johnny
would never look at his cell phones in class. More
than half of students are distracted by the devices of
other students, So it's not just the kid with the
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cell phone, it's all the kids around the kid with
the cell phone. Two thirds of American students say they
are distracted by their digital devices during class. It's time,
my friends. Now, this doesn't mean that we need to
have our kids not take their cell phones to school.
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There are lots of different ways of mitigating this from
essentially putting cell phones into a faraday bag when the
kids arrive at school so they can't get any incoming
or outgoing messages. Nothing can happen while it's in that bag.
From the pouches where kids walk into a classroom and
drop their cell phones into a pouch that also does
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the same thing. Some schools to say, look, you can
have it at your locker, you can't have it on
your person.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Now here in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
That last one probably wouldn't fly, But there are other
ways to do this. Cell phones are not good for kids.
I mean, there's it's kind of like this. I'm gonna
I'm gonna liken this to alcohol.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
For just a minute, right, People.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Who drink a lot, they will always find something to
gird their belief that alcohol and certain circumstances, under certain
conditions is fine. You can find a study that says, hey,
you know what, people who drink red wine they have
they have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. You can
find a study that's going to give you that information.
But they choose to ignore all of the downsides that
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are on the other side of this. They're ignoring the
fact that more young people are dying of alcoholism and
the associated illnesses than ever before. More women are dying
of alcoholic alcoholism related illnesses or diseases than ever before.
But the people who have decided the drinking is for them,
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they're they're going to ignore all that other data. And
this is exactly the parents who are too freaked out
to allow their children to have the same freedom that
we had at school, which is the freedom from parents,
the freedom from harassment, the freedom from our friends that
weren't in our classes.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
They now want to.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Rob their children of that experience because they're ignoring all
of this other data. Think it over, Let's talk about
some of the success stories. We'll be doing more of
this because now this is topic number four.
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Speaker 5 (36:02):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
We are going to barrel through this hour. I forgot
we used to barrel on Tuesday. We forgot about barreling.
Now we're barreling again. We're having trouble connecting with our guests,
but we will work on that as I have so
much more on the blog to talk about. It's not
even funny. May I have my computer audio, please, Anthony.
So if you want to know why the Democratic Party
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is hiding Kamala Harris from society, there's a couple of
things you need to know. First of all, ballots drop
in North Carolina on September sixth, meaning ballots are going
to be.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Mailed out to people.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
They are going to be able to fill out their
ballot and mail it back. So the Democrats in North
Carolina only have to hide her for a little longer
and then people will have sent back their ballots and
they don't have to worry about that. Other ballots start
to drop in October, including here in Colorado, and October
surprise should be September surprise. But there's another reason they're
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hiding her from society, and I just.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Want to play. This is from a few months ago.
This was before she became the candidate.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
But a reporter when she used to talk to reporters,
asked her a very simple question about diversity, equity, and inclusion,
and this is how it went on.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
A different front.
Speaker 10 (37:32):
Actually, this week reported that President Trump, if he'sa gets
a second term, will sort of dial back for lack
of better term DII programs that the bad administration has
put in forth. Obviously, I know you disagree with that.
I obviously believe that you don't want him to get
a second term that set. If that does happen, what
do you think that would do to raise relations in
this country?
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Well, let me say we're going to win, so it's
not going to happen. But I think that listen, we
today is actually I.
Speaker 11 (37:58):
Believe in an anniversary in terms of doctor King right,
and I was just in Selma and we celebrated it well,
acknowledged the fifty ninth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. I think
it's really important that we as Americans always embrace our.
Speaker 12 (38:16):
History, the parts that we're proud of and the parts
that we're not proud of, but that we can't forget.
And we should all agree that we should teach history.
We should learn history if we're to ever have an
accurate idea of where we want to go and where
we don't want to go in the future. And that
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means also acknowledging the importance of diversity. It means acknowledging
the importance of the fact that everyone should have equal
opportunity to compete and equity.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
And then now I want to stop her there, because
first of all, she's not at all answering the question.
She's just rambling on about words and saying things and
repeating the words diversity, equity, and inclusion. She's on record
as saying that she believes in equity as equal outcomes.
That is quite a horse of a different color than
equal opportunity. And by the way, I am all for
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equal opportunity. I want every single American, regardless of where
they're from, what their background is, to their parents, are
to have access to a top quality education that prepares
them to take advantage of opportunities in life, whether it's
going into trade school, whether it's going to college, whether
it's going straight into the workforce. I want these things.
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I want equal opportunities for people. But you cannot guarantee
equal outcomes in a society where people have different abilities,
because some people are Bill Gates and there is I'm
just gonna let you know, there's a zero percent chance
that yours truly was going to come up with the
personal computer. Okay, it was not in my skill set.
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That's not how my brain were work. And I'm going
to be the first to say I think Bill Gates
deserves to have a crapload of money for fundamentally changing
society as we know it. Call me crazy, but in
Kamala Harris's word world, he should have the same outcome
as somebody who decides to drop out of high school,
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make incredibly bad choices, spend money on cigarettes and lottery
tickets every single day while working a series of meaningless
jobs with absolutely no effort to improve themselves, make themselves
more marketable, improve their skills. She believes that they should
have the same outcome. That's what she said, equal outcomes.
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So the fact that she then slides in everybody should
have access, equal opportunity, and then she throws in an equity.
You gotta know what she means when she says equity.
But I'll let her finish the ramble of.
Speaker 12 (40:54):
Course inclusion that. You know, Hey, let's look around the
room and see who's not here, and did we leave
the open.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Did we leave the deer open? The door open? That's
why they're not letting her do interviews at all.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
And then I want to play this audio for you,
and it's going to not be as impactful as the
actual video that you can see on the blog today.
But if the Trump campaign keeps doing commercials like this,
they may be able to pull it out. But they
better be spending money in the right places. This is
a new ad for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message.
Speaker 12 (41:31):
Everyday prices are too high, food, rent, gas, back to
school clothes.
Speaker 5 (41:38):
That is calmed idernomics.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
Now, obviously the first part is not from the same
video as the second part. Well, she's talking about how
bad everything is. That is her in one clip. When
she points out that it's by noomics, it's her in
a different clip. But they're put together masterfully. I'll let
it continue.
Speaker 12 (41:55):
Cost fifty more today, realm beef is up almost fifty
There's not much left at the end of the month.
Speaker 5 (42:02):
Bidomics is working.
Speaker 6 (42:04):
The price of housing has gone up. It feels so
hard to just be able to get ahead.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
And we are very proud of Bidenomics. I'm Donald.
Speaker 6 (42:13):
That is what needs to happen. That is what has
to happen if the Trump campaign is going to win. Now,
also on the blog today, amazingly, the Associated Press, which
has been wildly uncurious about Kamala Harris's actual positions.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
Put this out.
Speaker 6 (42:33):
Today via ABC News. Here's the headline. She's the sitting
VP and the candidate of change. How Harris is having
it both ways. I'll just read part of this to you.
She's the sitting Vice president who's been in office for
three and a half years. She's also the presidential candidate
of just five weeks, promising a new way forward. Kamala
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Harris is having it both ways, as she is the
campaign trail after the Democratic National Convention, taking credit for
parts of President Joe Biden's record in rallies staged in
front of the Air Force two, while casting herself as
a new leader who rails against the politics of the past.
In every presidential cycle, candidates run on experience or freshness,
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but Harris so far appears to be successfully harmonizing two
seemingly competing messages, much to the frustration of former President
Donald Trump and his allies. They then managed to find
a Democrat to quote first in the story, who says
she has this powerful and unique and interesting advantage that
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we've never seen before in our politics. She's both an
incumbent and she's been able to seize the change banner
away from Donald Trump. Harris's vision for the country has
leaned heavily on biden plans, to the point of not
rewriting those plans even.
Speaker 5 (43:57):
After Biden dropped out.
Speaker 6 (43:59):
The platform approved by the DNC was passed last week
with frequent and outdated mentions of a Biden's second term.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
Her presentation as someone offering a new way.
Speaker 6 (44:10):
Forward relies in large part on being someone different than
the norm. The fifty nine year old daughter of Jamaican
and Indian immigrants replaced an eighty one year old white
man who first ran for president thirty six years ago.
She's running to become the nation's first female president and
first black woman or person of South.
Speaker 5 (44:29):
Asian descent to serve.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
Two thirds of Democrats wanted Biden to drop out after
his debate performance against Trump, which crystallized long standing concerns
among the public and many prominent Democrats in private about
his readiness. Then they managed to find a Republican pollster
to talk to, and he said Harris's ability to embody
change has quote a lot more to do with her age,
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her race, and her gender than it has to do
with any policy positions that she's articulated that outs change.
So just to be clear, as a function of her
immutable characteristics that she has nothing to do with other
than being born into them, she is now successfully argues
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the AP and what is surely another example of how
biased this news organization is. She's successfully navigating that because
no one's pushing back and saying, but wait, you've been
part of the administration for three and a half years
and you've adopted the exact same platform, So how is
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that a new path forward?
Speaker 2 (45:36):
Exactly.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
It's remarkable to.
Speaker 6 (45:40):
Me that the AP even did a story, but they
managed to find a lot of Democrats to weigh in
to make it look like it's a genius thing. She
is her own leader, of course, Brian Nelson, her senior
campaign policy advisor, told reporters at a Bloomberg event. But
she's a leader who's been a partner to President Biden
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these last three and a half years. They have shared
values and principles. He said, Okay, so do we get
to ask her when she knew that President Joe Biden
is so addled that he's just decided to take the
rest of his presidency off that he's on another vacation
for nine days, after being on vacation for the weekend,
after being on vacation for five days, is it okay
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to ask if she's this trusted partner, is she running
the country right now? If not her, then who It's
a genius stroke actually to keep her out of the media,
because she's terrible off the cuff, absolutely terrible. This is
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why whenever I see these stories about the Trump campaign
starting to waffle on the.
Speaker 5 (46:48):
Debates, I'm thinking to myself, what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (46:50):
And I don't think they're waffling on the debates. They're
arguing about the rules, and that's fine. But in a
debate as crazy as Donald Trump can get talking about
rambling things about golf and all that crap, he is
an off the cuff speaker who actually can say things
that makes sense, unlike an off the cuff speaker who
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uses the strategy of essentially repeating the words in the
question rather than asking or answering the question itself. I'll
just keep using the words they ask me about, and
maybe no one will notice that I did.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
Not answer any of them. I'm telling you. With the
media being as in the bag for the Harris campaign
as they are in the bag. This just may work.
And you have all of these low.
Speaker 6 (47:41):
Information voters, as Rush so aptly named them years and
years ago, who are not paying attention to any of
this stuff. They don't listen to talk radio, they don't
really pay attention to news. They're just happy that someone
who's not one hundred is finally running for office.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
Jar Baker is part of the.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
Wall Street Journal Opinion Club, right, and he wrote a
really good editorial today about this, an opinion piece, and
I want to share just a little bit of it.
Your campaign is poetry. You campaign in poetry, you govern
in pros. Mario Clumo's adage has been updated and adapted
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by his successors in the modern Democratic Party. The duality
they present to voters either side of an election is
a deception that has defined American politics and culture for
the past twenty years. As they campaign for office, they
present a kind of idealized version of themselves to the
electorate as mainstream Amedian, mainstream Americans seeking merely to bring
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a little unity and compassion to a fundamentally great country
in need of reform. Once in office, they act as
if they have a mandate to remake a benighted country,
to re order an unjust system, to replace American exceptionalism
with European social democracy, and to rewrite the nation's values
with the precepts of their cultural Marxism. They campaigned to
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borrow the late governor's taxonomy in the poetry of Robert Frost.
Speaker 5 (49:19):
They govern in the prose of Herbert Markhughes.
Speaker 6 (49:23):
Last week in Chicago, we got the poetry a frustian
pastoral of Democrats posing as regular Americans, honest toilers in
a darkening landscape of their own making. As they did
not tell us, they propose only to enlighten with their benevolence.
I don't mean poetry in the literal sense. With a
few exceptions, the quality of our political oratory is dire
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and plumbed the usual depths.
Speaker 5 (49:46):
Last week we've reached the point where even the actual.
Speaker 6 (49:49):
Poetry is prosaic, as the left's unofficial poet Laureate Amanda
Gorman demonstrated with another of her recitations of plat twonousal
banalities leading progressive nostrums delivered inner trademark phony iambic meter.
Speaker 5 (50:06):
In Okay, and then he goes on from there. But
he's absolutely right. And we saw this exact same thing
in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (50:16):
Do you remember in the last election cycle when Democrats
ran on saving us money and making Colorado more affordable.
Do you know what they've done since then to make
us more affordable? Absolutely nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing.
They have done nothing. Everything has just gotten more expensive.
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As a matter of fact, I got another story on
the blog today about just how much more of our
money the Democratic legislature has taken in the form of fees. Remember,
TABOR controls the amount the government can take from us.
Speaker 5 (50:57):
Tabor is um hang on, here we go. You're in Aeron.
Speaker 6 (51:06):
Taber controls the legislature because they can't raise our taxes
without asking for our permission. So what has the Democratic
legislature done. They have, well, just turned taxes into fees.
Speaker 5 (51:21):
And now.
Speaker 6 (51:23):
The Common Sense Institute has done a study and I
want to share just a little bit of this column
with you as well. Legislators have been shifting more and
more of the state's revenue dependents away from tax increases,
which voters have mostly kept in close check by refusing
to approve them, to fee based enterprises not subject to TABOR.
Speaker 5 (51:42):
In the first year after Taber was enacted.
Speaker 6 (51:45):
Fee based enterprises generated seven hundred and forty two million
dollars in the twenty eight years. Between nineteen ninety two
and twenty twenty, legislators created twenty four new enterprises, which
together collected twenty point nine billion dollars in twenty twenty.
By twenty twenty three, their revenue had increased by over
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three thousand percent, far beyond population growth sixty two percent
to twenty three point three billion dollars. Proposition one seventeen,
pass in twenty twenty, required new enterprises projected to collect
more than one hundred million to obtain voter approval. In response,
the state established eight new enterprises and expanded a pre
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existing one to bypass Tabor, again costing Colorado's a total
of eighty eight point three million dollars in fiscal year
twenty twenty three alone. But yet all the Democrats ran
to save you money. We're going to save you money.
Speaker 5 (52:49):
They allowed this.
Speaker 6 (52:50):
Massive property tax increase to happen.
Speaker 5 (52:53):
They had four years to fix.
Speaker 6 (52:55):
It after the Gallagher Amendment was repealed, and they did nothing.
And now that there's a ballot initiative that would roll
back a lot of those gains, we have these local
governments who just received a huge increase, who are now saying, well,
if you bring it back to a more reasonable level,
we're gonna have to fire everyone. We can't afford to
go on if you don't let us keep all of
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the money that we just took from you. And this
was all, this was all done, All of it was
done under the guise of saving you money campaigning in
pros excuse me, campaigning and poetry governing and pros.
Speaker 5 (53:33):
So this all struck home for me today, and there was.
Speaker 6 (53:42):
I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish there was
a way to make people pay attention to this right.
I wish there was a way to say to our
friends and neighbors who don't really pay attention but dial
in at the very last minute to decide.
Speaker 5 (53:59):
Who to vote for.
Speaker 6 (53:59):
It, It's like, why do you keep getting fooled again?
Why do you keep being such a reliable voter block?
And I'm gonna talk specifically about a voter block that
consistently votes for Democrats and I don't understand why at
this point, and that is African Americans. How has voting
for Democrats for fifty years benefited the African American community.
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You still have a staggering difference in household wealth. Do
you have a staggering difference in the achievement gap in
schools that are run almost exclusively by Democrats? What has
happened in the term of economic development zones? What has
happened in these communities? And yet that is such a
reliable voting block, And I don't get it at this
stage in the game. I don't understand why Jews would
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vote for Democrats, truly, I don't. I also, in many
ways understand why gay people won't vote for Republicans. There's
all these different like focus groups and you know, different
sort of demographics that I honestly am like, I don't
get while you're voting to continue the policies that have
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done nothing to uplift your community. And if that's how you,
as a whatever member of whatever community you are, feel
about the Republican Party, I at least understand that. In
my mind, what Republican platform positions used to be. We're
good for everyone. You've got free markets, you've got a
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strong economy, you've got economic opportunity. All of those things,
when they're applied to everyone equally, can uplift people in
such a way that all of the differences sort of
fall away. When people are successful and happy, they don't
spend a lot of time talking about grievances. They tend
to flourish in all aspects of their life when their
economic situation is better. And I know I'm not breaking
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news to you guys for doing this, but in any case,
I'm trying to right now, Aaron, try into you right now?
Speaker 5 (56:03):
Okay, Oh, surprise guest.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
Yes, we have a surprise guest. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (56:09):
I can't tell you anything, nothing at all, nothing at all,
But in seven minutes we have a very special surprise
guest joining the show.
Speaker 5 (56:16):
Surprise guest to yes, can you give me a hint?
Speaker 1 (56:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (56:23):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (56:23):
Is it bigger than a bread box?
Speaker 2 (56:25):
It's bigger than anything. Right. People are going to want
to tune.
Speaker 6 (56:29):
In, just I too want to tune in to find
out who I'm going to be talking to after this,
and we have our debut of our new newsman.
Speaker 5 (56:37):
Reck's no pressure or anything.
Speaker 6 (56:39):
Don't screw anything up because now I've introduced you as
our new newsman and people are going to be listening
with a very critical ear.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
We'll do all this and be back with a surprise guest.
I'm intrigued, just like you are. Listeners. We'll be right back.
Speaker 6 (56:50):
Our listeners don't even know what a legend you really are.
We tried to convey to them what a legend you
are at hosting karaoke.
Speaker 5 (56:58):
I can't believe we have you on the show. This
is a.
Speaker 8 (57:02):
I can't believe I'm a legend, but it's nice to
be here.
Speaker 6 (57:06):
So, Freda, how long have you been hosting karaoke?
Speaker 8 (57:10):
I've been doing this for thirty years. I'm on Social
Security that I'll give you an idea of how old
I am. Right, So, it's been a wonderful ride. Ever
since we started. They had little tape cassettes for the music,
so it was all terribly undigital. Then came along the
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laser discs. I had a bunch of laser discs when
they came out. Then the little cdgs which are like
little CDs, and now everything's you know, digital. So how
did you download it online? You put on your computer?
Speaker 5 (57:47):
How did you get into this in the first place?
I mean, what what made you go? You know what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna be a karaoke host.
Speaker 8 (57:56):
I want a singing contest and aeroke bar way back
in nineteen eighty eight, and I told the guy who
was running the show, I said, you know, I have
a van. I can log equipment around. You need me,
So I gave him my card and he called, and
from that point on I was not essentially doing the
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showals myself, but running the sound, carrying the equipment around.
And about a year later then I became like a host,
and for then from then on, I've been doing it
in my sleep.
Speaker 6 (58:30):
So you are not just your typical karaoke host. You
are an active participant with the people that are singing.
I saw you singing backup. I saw you play in
a fake keyboard. I saw you with a rose in
your mouth. I saw you with light up sunglasses. I
saw you play the recorder. It was just an epic
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kind of of hosting. When did you start adding all
of this stuff to your hosting repertoire?
Speaker 8 (59:00):
Actually pretty early on, I've I don't you know, I
didn't really do it to distract away from the singers.
I just sort of had a funny sense of humor.
I knew the music. I could actually play guitar when
I first started out, so I was just familiar with
being able to fake stuff, and I thought it would
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be like a funny addition people be able to not
only listen to the music, but they seem me off
to the side doing some funny impersonation of the you know,
whether I'm playing the saxophone, which is a blow up sax,
or you know, a guitar, which is actually a guitar
neck and not a whole guitar no strings. Of course,
it just made it a little bit more entertaining, I thought,
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and people were very receptive, so I just kept along
doing it and it's just kind of evolved into what
it is today. So is it's fun for me, it's
fun for the audience.
Speaker 5 (59:58):
It is funny.
Speaker 6 (59:58):
And one of the things I love about you as
you're absolutely deadpan the entire time. If you're loving what
you're doing, you don't show it on your face. Bread
You're just.
Speaker 5 (01:00:06):
There doing it, being the man.
Speaker 6 (01:00:09):
And you remained relatively expressionless, which made me laugh so hard.
I can't even tell you you were You were the
hit of our visit to Chicago. I'm just letting you
know this.
Speaker 8 (01:00:21):
It was just wonderful. I thought you guys had originally
been just part of the DNC, maybe delegates visiting, because
we did add some of them in during that week.
But it's just a wonderful time being analysis. We do
it five nights a week, and I do it four
of the five. And we've had a lot of awards
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in Chicago best Karaoke Bar for like eleven years in
a row. In fact, they stopped giving the award to
karaoke bars. I don't know, maybe they felt, what's the point,
It's always going to be Alice's. But it's been a
great ride. People are just the audience is they're very
supportive of all the singers, whether you're good, whether you're bad.
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So it's it's it's I can't believe this is my job.
I get paid to do this.
Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
So you heard my producer A Rod sing what in
the scale of karaoke world singing?
Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
One being, Oh my god, make it stop, ten being?
This kid could have a future.
Speaker 6 (01:01:24):
Where is a Rod on the one to ten scale
of karaoke singers in your long history and and experience?
Speaker 8 (01:01:33):
Oh I would have to give him ten? Yeah, because
he was that good. There were other people from the
party not so not so good, not so bad, but
but a Rod, he just He just really stuck out,
got a great voice, sounds just like the record. Of course,
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if you do Rick Astley, we're going to get some bad,
you know, bad reviews. But I had to say, like
it was. I mean, I like this song because I
hear it every night. But he was awesome. Red sounded
absolutely fabulous. Well, I agree to be in a band somewhere.
Speaker 6 (01:02:10):
Yeah, he loves to sing karaoke. And we went to
the r n C as well, where we sang karaoke
at the RNC And the quality of the singers in
Milwaukee at the karaoke bar was better than the quality
of the singers and Alice, is that that particular Wednesday night?
But the karaoke host did not even come close to you, Fred,
not even remotely close. And I want to ask you
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one more question before we run out of time, and
that is as a karaoke host for thirty years, what
songs would you be happy if you never heard anyone
sing again?
Speaker 8 (01:02:43):
Oh my god, what a great question. Total Eclips to
the Heart, number one, number one, Get rid of that
song Boheman rhaps.
Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Oh yeah, that's a tough one too.
Speaker 8 (01:02:57):
I was never a big fan that song from the
first place, and they have to hear it at least
every other night. It doesn't make you a bigger fan.
And don't stop believing by Journey. That's the trifecta of songs.
I never want to hear it again. Only two of
them because I hear I've heard them so much, I
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don't want to hear them again. But total eclipse of
the Heart. Oh, it's the worst.
Speaker 6 (01:03:24):
Well, and Ie, people maybe get out a little. In
Colorado we have a saying where people get out ahead
of their skis a little bit, meaning that they've bitten
off more than they can chew. And I feel like,
especially Journey, you probably have a lot of singers who
have bitten off more than they can chew with that
particular song vocally.
Speaker 8 (01:03:43):
Absolutely. In fact, many of my well all of my
clients don't know this. But because it's such a high song,
I adjust the key down half a step. They call
it down one. Nobody knows. Nobody can tell, but it
helps him a little bit trying to hit those notes.
(01:04:04):
So it'll it'll. It was my secret until I came
on your show. But yeah, I cheat for the good
of the company. I guess you would say in that one.
Speaker 6 (01:04:14):
Fred if we ever want to have a Mandy Connell
show karaoke party, will you can we fly you out
here and you run our karaoke party for us.
Speaker 8 (01:04:22):
Absolutely. I've been out to Rocky Mountain National Parks. I'll
always flying out to Denver. I've been out to the
park maybe a dozen times. I love the mountains, love
being out west. So I'm your man. I'm there, Well,
diesel Man, DJ, Can I do a shout out?
Speaker 10 (01:04:40):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
Absolutely, go right ahead.
Speaker 8 (01:04:41):
Shout out to Paul Hankleman. He lives in Denver. He
comes in every Christmas to do a party at Alice's.
He has relatives here. He's been coming to my shows
for i'll say twenty years. So he lives in Denver. Now,
Paul Hankleman, all right and a lovely partner. Then I
appreciate that shout out. Well, Fred, We're gonna think it'll
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be very impressed.
Speaker 5 (01:05:07):
Oh Fred, everybody listens to this show. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:05:10):
I'm a huge star, not as big as you, but
I'm a huge star here in Denver. So I'm sure
he's listening right now and is floored. But his favorite
DJ is giving him a shout out. Fred, we will
be in touch with you, because now I want to
have a karaoke party. I don't sing anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
I am unable to sing anymore. I had a vocal
cord surgery that pretty much ended that for me. But
we have lots of people, including our newsman Rob who
also sang, and of course a Rod and we'd love
to have you out. So we're gonna make that happen.
I don't know how, but we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Make it happen.
Speaker 8 (01:05:39):
All right, can't wait?
Speaker 5 (01:05:41):
All right, Fred, thank you so much for your time today.
Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
Man, thank you.
Speaker 8 (01:05:46):
I'll be talking to you sometime in the future.
Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
All right.
Speaker 6 (01:05:49):
That's DJ Fred, our karaoke friend from Alice's Bar in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
Well done, Anthony. Now we have to carry have a
karaoke party.
Speaker 6 (01:05:59):
Okay, Texters hit the Common Spirit health text line. If
you were going to come to karaoke at the Mandy
Canal Karaoke party, what song would you sing?
Speaker 5 (01:06:07):
We already know the three that we never want to
hear again. So here we go. I'm the worst.
Speaker 6 (01:06:14):
Singer ever, but I need to put total eclips of
the Heart on the top of my karaoke list, not
when Fred's there. Only Want to Be with You by
Hoody and the Blowfish. You know Darius Record does not
like it when you call him Hoodie. There'll be no
follow up questions on how I know that? Turn the
page by Bob Seeger Tequila. Many of you said tequila?
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Is that for people who can't sing tequila? Shania Twain, Man,
I feel like a woman. I mean, if you're a man.
That's a number. Did It My Way by Frank Sinatra,
Uneasy Writer by Charlie Daniels, Mandy Anything Captain and danil
is my jam?
Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
Do you know what, Texter? I will commit to singing Muskrat.
Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
Love with you. No, I won't.
Speaker 6 (01:06:59):
I mean I might, but I'm not committing. It was
a very good year by Frank Sinatra. That's a good one,
kind of wistful.
Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
The wine Jogi's in.
Speaker 6 (01:07:07):
She would sing me and my Bobby McGee in Piece
of My Heart by Janis Jamaica Farewell, not Familiar, Only
the Lonely by the Motels.
Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
That's a good one.
Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
Mandy, how do you mend a broken heart? By the Begs?
Are you a castrato person? How do you get that
high karaoke? You've lost that love and feeling Mandy Angelized
by the Jeff Healey Band, Mandy Poncho and Lefty requires
two people, so all draft a rod war Pigs by
Black Sabbath or a Little Over his Skis Hallowed be
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Thy Name by Iron Maiden, Mandy Ari karaoke I'm first
in with Mac the Knife. That from John from Pueblo
karaoke tunes. Rocky Mountain, High Winter Wonderland is the song
I can fake. Best Dancing Queen by Abba. I like
the Dan Band version of the Total Eclipse of the Heart.
Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
Says this text. They had their appearance in old school.
Speaker 6 (01:07:59):
Wait, ladies, screeching into the microphone, was that karaoke of
Kamala's DNC speech. I'm confused? O oh snap Texter, Oh
snap yeah. Fred was wearing a Harris Wall shirt. That's
his only you know is only issue Mandy either the
SpongeBob theme song or Desperado from the Eagles.
Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
Now that is a broad sort of you know, bass
of thing.
Speaker 6 (01:08:24):
Mandy the up Ultimate Couple song Paradise by the Dashboard Lights.
Speaker 5 (01:08:27):
I love that song, can't. I don't have the voice
for it anymore?
Speaker 6 (01:08:32):
Toby Keith beer for my Horses, Mandy, I would sing
whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.
Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
Also, please do not allow Black Velvet.
Speaker 6 (01:08:40):
Worst karaoke song ever, not as bad as Total Eclipse
of the Heart at very close. When we get back
it is I'm not even gonna do the two minute
drill because I've got some serious stuff that i want
to talk about, including Mark Zuckerberg finally admitted how large
the campaign by the Biden administration a censor unpopular information
(01:09:05):
really was.
Speaker 5 (01:09:06):
We'll do that next.
Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
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Speaker 8 (01:09:18):
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Speaker 7 (01:09:20):
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Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 6 (01:09:35):
To the third hour of the show, although I don't
think anything gets her bass the last hour. We are
waiting for Deborah Florida join us at two thirty because
she is appearing at a huge march this weekend in DC.
We're gonna find out more about that and what she's
going to be doing there. But this story, it broke
yesterday and it's like the whole world just met it.
Speaker 5 (01:09:56):
With a shrug. And here's why.
Speaker 6 (01:09:59):
If you're on the right, you already know what I'm
about to say. You already know exactly what I'm going
to say from Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook. If you're on
the left, you just want to pretend that didn't happen.
When the Hunter byde laptop story was being censored and
we talked about it on this show and I posted
about it on.
Speaker 5 (01:10:17):
Twitter, I had people like, Oh, what.
Speaker 6 (01:10:21):
Other conspiracy theories you're.
Speaker 5 (01:10:23):
Going to believe in Nandy?
Speaker 6 (01:10:24):
It's so obviously Russian disinformation. It has all the hallmarks,
And fifty one people signed a letter saying that it
was Russian disinformation, except it wasn't. It was real, and
Facebook conspired with the federal government to block that information
from being seen by voters.
Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
But that's not all they did.
Speaker 6 (01:10:48):
Mark Zuckerberg has done more than his share as of late,
appearing in front of the House Oversight Committee multiple times.
But he sent a letter yesterday to Jim George for
the Committee on the Judiciary, and in it.
Speaker 5 (01:11:05):
He says this.
Speaker 6 (01:11:08):
In twenty twenty one, senior officials from the Biden administration,
including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months
to censor certain COVID nineteen content, including humor and satire,
and expressed a list of frustration with.
Speaker 5 (01:11:24):
Our teams when we didn't agree.
Speaker 6 (01:11:26):
Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take
content down, and we own our decision, including COVID nineteen
related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake
of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong,
and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.
How about outspoken at all? Can you imagine if Mark
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Zuckerberg had posted on his Facebook page, Hey, everybody, we're
getting pressure for the federal government to censor what you
guys can see on Facebook when it comes to COVID.
Speaker 5 (01:11:58):
How brave would that have been.
Speaker 6 (01:12:01):
But that's not what he did, He continues in this letter,
Like I said to our teams at the time, I
feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards
due to pressure from any administration in either direction, and
we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.
Speaker 5 (01:12:19):
So what this whole letter is.
Speaker 6 (01:12:21):
This whole letter, by the way, and I'll get into
what else is in it, it's just him saying, hey, guys,
you know what, we had a ton of pressure from
the Biden administration to censor stuff, and we did. But
I am so so sorry about that, now, so sorry
that we did all that to you. Oh but he
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doesn't say sorry. He's also laying the groundwork, so let
any Republican administration know they will not be given the
same difference. He continues, in a separate situation, the FBI
warned us about a potential Russian disinformation opera about the
Biden family and Barisma in the lead up to the
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twenty twenty election. Now, I want to read this again
because I need you to understand what he just did here.
In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a
potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Barisma.
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So the FBI, which most assuredly knew about Hunter Biden's
dealings with Ukrainian oligarchs and the payments he was getting
from Barisma, the Ukrainian gas company, They absolutely knew about
all that, and yet the FBI reached out in a
campaign move to help the Biden administration tamp down on
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negative stories.
Speaker 5 (01:13:49):
Before they even had a chance to come out.
Speaker 6 (01:13:53):
So Mark Zuckerberg here is just admitting casually that the
FBI worked as an arm of the Biden administration in
their campaign while he was not president. By the way,
Donald J. Trump was president of the United States when
the FBI ostensibly Donald Trump's FBI because the executive is
in charge of the FBI while Donald Trump was in
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charge of the FBI. The FBI reached out to Facebook
to let them know about this story that they absolutely
knew the truth about. I do not if the FBI
didn't know what Hunter Biden was doing, what do they even?
Why do they even exist? Why do we even have
the FBI? So now we know that the FBI was
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successfully weaponized by the Biden campaign with Facebook. He continues
that fall, when we saw a New York Post post
story reporting on corruption allegations involving then Democratic presidential nominee
Joe Biden's family, we sent that story to fact checkers
for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply.
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Since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation,
and in retrospect, we shouldn't have demoted the story. We've
changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn't
happen again. For instance, we no longer temporarily demote things
in the US while waiting for fact checkers.
Speaker 5 (01:15:20):
That's not all he said.
Speaker 6 (01:15:23):
Apart from content moderation, I want to address the contribution
I made during the last presidential cycle to support electoral infrastructure.
The idea here these were all the Zuckerbucks that went
to districts who needed money making sure that people could
vote as many times as they needed to and often.
Speaker 5 (01:15:40):
I guess the idea here was to.
Speaker 6 (01:15:42):
Make sure local election jurisdictions across the country had the
resources they needed to help people vote safely during a
global pandemic. I made these contributions through the Chan Zuckerberg initiative.
They were designed to be nonpartisan, spread across urban, rural,
and suburban communities. Despite the analyzes I've seen showing otherwise,
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I know that some people believe this work benefited one
party over the other. My goal is to be neutral
and not play a role one way or the other,
or even to appear to be playing a role, So
I don't plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.
Speaker 5 (01:16:21):
Now here's my question.
Speaker 6 (01:16:23):
Do we get to make a federal elections complaint because
of the unearned media that was given to Joe Biden
by the throttling of the Hunter Biden laptop story and
the Hunter Biden bereisma story and all of the stories
about the Biden family corruption. This is a huge story
and it's just basically like a nothing burger, a nothing burger.
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If I didn't see it on Twitter, I wouldn't have
seen it at all.
Speaker 5 (01:16:50):
Why is this okay?
Speaker 6 (01:16:52):
Somebody just said, Mandy, so Zuck admits this, and you
still don't think the election was stolen. And before you
say I'm moving the goalpost, I've always included the Democrats
doing anything.
Speaker 5 (01:17:01):
To cheat as part of my goalposts. Most people did not.
Speaker 6 (01:17:05):
And whereas I've been very clear on the fact that
I don't think there was enough actual vote fraud to
move the direction it one way or the other. There
was certainly election interference and this is a perfect example
of it. Perfect example, Mandy, are you kidding? You've gone
full Mike Lindell throwing out early and often apparently someone
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looking for a lawsuit who's going to sue me? And
I made a throwaway joke and if it's got your
knickers in a twist.
Speaker 5 (01:17:36):
If it hit too close to home, I apologize for nothing.
Speaker 6 (01:17:43):
Show some proof, Mandy, Well, I'm just saying that. Mark
Zuckerberg just admitted that the FBI contacted him about information
that would have been harmful to.
Speaker 5 (01:17:53):
The Biden campaign and they throttled it.
Speaker 6 (01:17:58):
What more proof do you need that's a direct connection
between FBI interference on behalf of a candidate and social media.
We're a vast majority of people currently get their news,
by the way, I think that's pretty pretty damning. It
makes me sad that I no longer trust the FBI.
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But between this and Donald Trump's assassination attempt, they have
lost my Trump my trust entirely.
Speaker 5 (01:18:26):
Quick question that I got via the.
Speaker 6 (01:18:27):
Common Spirit health text line, Mandy, My question is why now?
Why is Zuckerberg releasing this now? Because Joe Biden is
a dead man walking and it's okay to come clean.
And in this case, I think Mark Zuckerberg really is
just doing like he's cleansing his soul, right. He's like,
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I'm just gonna get this off my plate so it
comes out later I can say, yes, it happened, but boy,
we learned our lesson, and gosh darn it, we're never
gonna do that again. Gully g willikers never, never, at all.
And this texture is absolutely right, and of course nothing
will happen nothing at all.
Speaker 5 (01:19:10):
So there you go, There you go.
Speaker 6 (01:19:13):
And someone said, yeah, I can't wait till Trump gets
rid of the FBI and we get the Trump Secret
Police in can't call it the KGB because that's already taken.
Speaker 5 (01:19:24):
I don't want to see the FBI go away.
Speaker 6 (01:19:27):
I want to see everybody at the upper levels of
the FBI fired.
Speaker 5 (01:19:31):
I'd like to see every person at.
Speaker 6 (01:19:32):
The FBI who had anything to do with pushing forward
the Steele dossier, I want to see them fired. I
want to see anybody who was involved with warning and
warning off Facebook about this information.
Speaker 5 (01:19:45):
I want to see them all fired.
Speaker 6 (01:19:47):
I want to see anybody who has been remotely involved
with any kind of political activity by the FBI, I
want to see him fired. And then I want to
see people elevated who believe that the FBI has a
job as America's law enform and they want to return
to that mission of tracking down criminals and catching bad
guys at the federal level. And I want to see
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them step away from politics that never step back. It's
not the first time we've had to do a kind
of a house cleaning at the FBI. It's not the
first time that absolute power has corrupted absolutely at the FBI.
So it's not about just getting rid of the FBI.
It's about ripping out, as they say, root and branch
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all of the people who have politicized an agency. There's
one of the most feared in the United States because
of their power. I don't want them to be working politically.
I want them to be working on law enforcement and
right and wrong, not politics.
Speaker 5 (01:20:47):
So there you go. Mandy Song should be wipeout. That's
another one. I can't hit that. I can't go that high.
Fred would have to lower that have octave for me.
Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
Fred Nix is live, he does.
Speaker 5 (01:21:00):
He is a legend.
Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Fred.
Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
Why now?
Speaker 5 (01:21:03):
I absolutely love Fred. Okay, when we get back, you guys,
I have so.
Speaker 6 (01:21:07):
Much stuff on the blog, and I want to talk
about this story a rod tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
Remind me about this story tomorrow. See what I did there? Yeah,
got to give you a timeframe.
Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
No, it's a story tomorrow. Forget about what everybody.
Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
Say after twenty four hours has elapsed. Remind me about
the story about Americans.
Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
Hey, twenty four hours after Okay, No, tomorrow, I'll remind
you that it's been twenty four hours. To not forget
the thing you're about to say tomorrow. That's fine. I'll
take that, okay, because I'm reminding you about how tomorrow
you something I know? Okay, I have a story today.
Twenty five percent of Americans say their lives are boring.
Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
How much your life is not boring? My life is
need to be a little more boring.
Speaker 5 (01:21:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:21:57):
If you're not bringing main character energy to your life,
I'm going to help you with it Tomorrow. Tomorrow, we're
going to fix boring lives Tomorrow. But when we get back,
we're going to talk to my friend Deborah Flora and
she has been fighting on behalf of kids for years
now and Saturdays, she is one of a amazing lineup
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of speakers that are going to be speaking in DC
at the Kids March March for Kids excuse.
Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
Me in Washington, DC.
Speaker 6 (01:22:26):
And if you wonder why we need that, oh boy,
do I have a story for you about first grade
teaching standards here in Colorado. If you've ever thought to yourself,
you know what first grade needs? It needs kids learning
about sex work. Congratulations, that's what we have in Colorado now,
and this is why we need to protect kids.
Speaker 5 (01:22:46):
Dep Flora coming up next. Dep Flora.
Speaker 6 (01:22:48):
You remember from her race in the fourth Congressional district
that did not go the.
Speaker 5 (01:22:53):
Way we wanted it to go. But she is back
and that doing what.
Speaker 6 (01:22:57):
Really I'm not going to say put you on the map, Deborah,
because that's not giving you enough do. But you have
long been at the forefront of fighting for our children
in a variety of ways, and now you are going
to be on a big stage and Saturday in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 5 (01:23:15):
First of all, welcome back to the show. Great to
be here, Mandy, as always, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
Good to be here.
Speaker 6 (01:23:20):
So tell me a little bit about what's happening Saturday
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 5 (01:23:24):
I'm so excited about this.
Speaker 9 (01:23:25):
You and I've talked about how movements in history, the
vast majority of them, never make a lasting change. Most
of them get to a certain point plateau, then taper off.
When we think of movements that have made a difference,
there's a suffrage move it's a civil rights movement. Something
happened to bring it to critical mass with lasting change.
The movement I've been a part of that you're talking about,
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is the parental rights, educational freedom of protecting children, girls' sports.
I've been fighting for that for a long time, first
of all as a mom, someone who just cares.
Speaker 5 (01:23:56):
And by the way, that's why most of us will
never stop fighting for this because we can.
Speaker 9 (01:24:00):
Having started Parents United America, introduced curriculum, transparency, legislation, done
the documentary, etc. And what I've always had a vision
for I spoke with someone who Tina Dskovich, and with
the same vision.
Speaker 5 (01:24:13):
It's time to have a march for kids.
Speaker 9 (01:24:17):
And what we're doing on Saturday in Washington, DC is
the first ever March for Kids. And the wonderful thing
about this, Amandy, is it transcends.
Speaker 5 (01:24:28):
All the rest of the polarization.
Speaker 9 (01:24:29):
We've got people who are coming from every political spectrum,
from every ethnic group, from every religious group, and that
is what it's about.
Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
So we're coming together.
Speaker 9 (01:24:37):
I'll be speaking at the first ever March for Kids
Saturday this coming Saturday, August thirty first, along with people
like doctor Alvita King, Tulca Gabbard, Glenn Beck, and many
others who've been at the front of this movement. Because
I believe that after COVID, everybody woke up and that
was a moment in history. But if parents don't stay engaged,
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this movement will go by the wayside of many others.
We've got to get to critical mass because just because
kids are back in school does not mean the things
that are happening there that may be antithetical to a
family's values are not still happening.
Speaker 5 (01:25:14):
Case in point, if I do, if I may.
Speaker 6 (01:25:19):
Today from X, I have to give a lot of
a big shout out for Aaron for parental rights. She
has a wonderful Twitter feed that always has great information.
She dug into the first grade social study standards. And
in case you were thinking to yourself, you know what,
first greed needs more talk about sex work.
Speaker 5 (01:25:39):
Good news. Good news.
Speaker 6 (01:25:41):
Now in Colorado, our six year olds are going to
have the opportunity to learn about sex work. How is
this all going to come about. They're going to teach
them about the Stonewall riots. They're going to teach them
about the two people who kind of kicked off the
Stonewall riots, who, in addition to being drag queens not
necessarily women, but drag queens also sex.
Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
Traffic young boys that they picked up off the streets.
Speaker 6 (01:26:06):
And that is the context which your six year old
is going to hear that Johnson and rivera recognized that
many transgender people turned to sex work after being rejected
by their families, setting it up for first graders to
understand if they ever have gender dysphoria, sex work and
cutting off from their families is the best option.
Speaker 7 (01:26:26):
You know.
Speaker 9 (01:26:26):
And I found myself laughing when you said that, not
out of amusement.
Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
Just out of just sheer absurdities. And that is the problem.
Speaker 10 (01:26:35):
I Mean.
Speaker 5 (01:26:35):
One of the things that I love about this March for.
Speaker 9 (01:26:38):
Kids that we're having on Saturday is because when I
talk to people from any different spectrum, I mean, you know,
you've got the Muslim dads in Detroit who are standing
up against the sexualized.
Speaker 5 (01:26:47):
Of their children.
Speaker 9 (01:26:48):
I've let a rally down at our Capitol building and
it was bilingual because half of the folks who showed
up were Hispanic standing against the sexualization of their children.
This transcends everything, because why this is happening is most.
Speaker 5 (01:27:02):
People don't know. Most people really just believe.
Speaker 9 (01:27:05):
They're going to send their child off to school, they're
going to learn how to read and write.
Speaker 5 (01:27:09):
And the reality is right here in Colorado. I haven't
seen the latest statistics, but.
Speaker 9 (01:27:13):
I think was last year less than forty percent read
a grade level. Less than thirty percent do math at
grade level. And by the way, this burden's teachers. Can
you imagine your first grade teacher. Really, that's when children
begin to learn to read and no, instead you're supposed
to be teaching them.
Speaker 5 (01:27:29):
About all of these adult topics.
Speaker 9 (01:27:32):
And when we look at really this mental health issue
we have with kids today, we're creating.
Speaker 5 (01:27:40):
The problem and trying to fix the problem.
Speaker 6 (01:27:42):
So how are these kids going to be able to
count their money from the sex work if they can't
do math? Deborah, maybe the strategy we need to use
that's the truck.
Speaker 9 (01:27:51):
Question, because I would I would buck against the premise
they shouldn't be counting money from that kind.
Speaker 5 (01:27:56):
Of work period. But out there Aaron does great work
on that.
Speaker 9 (01:28:00):
And the reality is my concern who has always been
we've got to get this to critical mass. We have
got to remind parents that these things are still going on.
But there's a lot of great news of what's happening,
Mandy and I want to share that too. For instance,
you have the stand that's happening across the country to
protect girls' sports and safe spaces. Yes, everybody understands this
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is not a matter of treating every child with dignity.
We all believe in that, but everybody understands it's fundamentally.
Speaker 5 (01:28:31):
Unfair for a girl to either be forced.
Speaker 9 (01:28:34):
To shower next to an anatomical mail or to compete
against him.
Speaker 6 (01:28:38):
You are literally any agency. You're taking away her agency
to say this is not okay. Yeah, because if you
say it's not okay, well you're transphobic. They call you
a name and send you out of the sports world.
Speaker 9 (01:28:49):
With And the reality is I spoke to a mom
the other day whose daughter had always dreamt of being
an Olympic runner, and at.
Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
The age of twelve, she decided to quit because she
her mother and said, what does it even matter? What
does it matter? Because she was watching the Olympics, she
was watching some of the stories there, and she.
Speaker 9 (01:29:06):
No longer believes in the United States of America she
can pursue her dream and therefore doesn't matter how far
she goes in sports. But she no longer believes that
she will be protected in her own sport and have
a right to an even playing field.
Speaker 5 (01:29:20):
That's just wrong. But the positive part is.
Speaker 9 (01:29:23):
Across the country you see people waking up and saying, okay,
wait a second, you can't just call somebody a name
and silence a real conversation about what is right.
Speaker 5 (01:29:33):
Another bright spot.
Speaker 9 (01:29:34):
Another thing I'm working with is a Scholarships. I'm on
the board of A Scholarships which has a longstanding twenty
five year history of supporting low income students so they're
not trapped by their zip code and they can succeed.
Speaker 5 (01:29:47):
They're also now and I'm working with them on the.
Speaker 9 (01:29:49):
ESA movement that's taking over in red states across the country.
That literally is an education savings account. What that does
it gives the money back to the parents. The money
fallows student, not the system. We're going to see a
revolution if we keep on going down this pathway, a
positive one that will.
Speaker 5 (01:30:08):
Achieve lasting change. So there are bright spots.
Speaker 9 (01:30:10):
Well, we've got to make sure we keep this at
the forefront of the conversation and show nationally.
Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
I invite everybody to go to.
Speaker 9 (01:30:16):
March four Kids, that's four Kids dot Com join us
on Saturday. Like I said, doctor Lvita King will be there,
tying this in with the civil rights movement of her uncle,
Talsea Gabbard, Glenn Beck, a lot of great people, and
I'm going to be honored to be speaking there as well.
Speaker 6 (01:30:32):
There's quite a few heavy hitters on this list, and
are they do you know if this is going to
be streamed on c Span or any of that stuff,
because traditionally they'll try to pick something up.
Speaker 9 (01:30:44):
But this is the first year for this march, right,
this is the very first one, and so anyone who
comes can be a part of the inaugural situation. We
hope for this to be the newest ongoing march. We
know the March for Life has been going on ever
since nineteen seventy three, the longest lasting Monk, which has
made very large changes. We hope that this is the
next longest March until we achieve complete parental rights, educational freedom,
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getting education back to just a place where kids learn
and flourish from opening their minds, not being told what
to think, but how to think critically, how to have
the skills to succeed.
Speaker 5 (01:31:23):
That's what this is really about. And it's not just education,
it's medical freedom as well.
Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:31:27):
You know, you're a mom. I'm a mom. I remember
the moment our.
Speaker 9 (01:31:30):
Our children turned twelve and they were asked if they
wanted to go back by themselves without us, who decided that.
Speaker 6 (01:31:39):
I mean in our family, I was like, oh, I'm sorry,
is she paying the copaye? Because she's not paying to
pay then I'm coming in there. And my daughter was like,
I don't care. I mean sure, it's fine. The the
the inter the intervention between the parental child relationship has
never been under attack like it is right now.
Speaker 5 (01:32:01):
Not in history. Now.
Speaker 6 (01:32:02):
There were times when children were seen not heard. There
were times when children were raised by someone else. There
were times when people had ten or twelve children because
only five would survive, right, and they needed them to
work in the fields. But I don't ever recall a
time when the government was actively working at every level
that we're in. I mean from the school board level.
We've talked a lot about like Cherry Creek schools. If
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you have a kid in Cherry Creek, you need to
understand what your school board is advocating for. If you're
in chef Co, you need to know that they are
actively working to separate you from your child when it
comes to school.
Speaker 5 (01:32:39):
And you're right, this is a fundamental shift.
Speaker 9 (01:32:41):
The reason why we called our documentary Whose Children Are They?
Is because there's two worlds views. The American experiment, which
has produced the greatest prosperity and happiness in many ways
in human history is based on the Western civilization idea
that the family is the building block that is the
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number one source of strength in a culture. That's where
governance starts within the family unit.
Speaker 5 (01:33:08):
And it goes out from there.
Speaker 9 (01:33:09):
There's an exact opposite view, I called the statist view.
I saw it in the Soviet Union, in East Germany
other places where I've been, and they truly believe it
is the state's right responsibility to educate the child on everything. Worldview, morality,
political view. The first allegiance is to the state, not
to the family unit. All you have to do is
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read nineteen eighty four and you see.
Speaker 5 (01:33:31):
It first hand. So we're at that crossroads, and it
is this is why I.
Speaker 9 (01:33:37):
Think this march is so important. This is not just
about families, as though that wasn't even enough. It's about
the very cornerstone of our civilization. And if that breaks down,
we're talking about the future of our country. You know,
Lincoln said, what's taught in the classroom today will be
in the government tomorrow. So there's politicization in the classroom.
There is a goal to separate the nuclear family and
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divide and who has ultimate authority over decision making for
the child. You know, I'm not saying every parent is
perfect by any means, and.
Speaker 5 (01:34:07):
We have laws to take care of that.
Speaker 9 (01:34:09):
But you know, Mandy, you know better than any bureaucrat,
what makes your child happy or sad, what food they like,
what food they don't like, how they work best, how
they don't work best. The parents truly do know. But
there has been something in our culture that's been working
to discredit parents as the problem, not actually the ultimate authority.
Speaker 6 (01:34:33):
And you just have to look at the way the
media took comments by Jade Vance talking about I think
that people with kids their their you know, votes should
have more weight. The man didn't propose legislation. He was
making a bigger point about your viewpoint when you were
a parent. And as a matter of fact, I have
a story on the blog today totally kind of unrelated,
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but it's about they did a study on which parts
of your brain light up when they when you think
about love, and parental love was the deepest in our brain.
Speaker 5 (01:35:03):
It was the most intense in our brain.
Speaker 6 (01:35:06):
And yet JD Vance saying, look, people with children have
a different worldview of the world they're leaving behind, which
I agree with. But you would have thought he would
have said, if you don't have kids, you should go
jump off a cliff, And you would have thought that
he had said, if you're a single parent, you should
go jump off a cliff. He said none of that,
but the reaction was so visceral and so immediate to
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shut it down and make him look like some kind
of maniac because he's advocating for the traditional nuclear family,
that's two parents and children. Yes, and study after study
after study shows that the big advantage for kids is
two parents, way more than socioeconomic, way more than what
neighborhood they live in. If they have two parents in
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the home, they are far more likely to succeed. And
yet that statistical information seems to just annoy people on
the other side.
Speaker 9 (01:35:55):
It's interesting too, because it's only coming from one side.
I don't see parents going around and telling those who
are single or don't have kids how they need to
live their lives, what they.
Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
Need to do.
Speaker 9 (01:36:05):
This needs to get back to a situation where we
honor and we respect one another's rights, one another's rights
to live free. When I started Parents United in America,
one of the things that I spoke very deeply and
thought about when we formed it. This is for every
parent's right. It doesn't mean I tell another parent how
they need to raise their children. I mean, obviously there
are laws to protect children, et cetera. But this is
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really about the fact that I honor respect that they
know their children better than anyone else.
Speaker 5 (01:36:33):
I know my kids better than anyone else.
Speaker 9 (01:36:35):
We have two children in the minute you have to
you suddenly realize how different every child is.
Speaker 5 (01:36:39):
On top of it.
Speaker 6 (01:36:40):
Oh, yes, and they're not little miniature used that's the
most parenting. You're like, wait a minute, Yes, I spawned
this person and they're nothing like me.
Speaker 8 (01:36:49):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (01:36:50):
And I think it's very important the future of our
country because if this building block gets broken down, then
we have something where some only everything has been institutionalized.
Everything is now no longer that human touch and interaction.
And by the way, I've always said that, you know,
if our founding.
Speaker 5 (01:37:10):
Fathers had ever thought we would get to this day.
Speaker 9 (01:37:14):
Where the most fundamental basic right of the parents would
be questioned, parent rights would have been in.
Speaker 5 (01:37:20):
The Bill of Rights. But to me, I believe was
unthinkable to them.
Speaker 9 (01:37:24):
It's the cornerstone of Western civilization and we've got to
protect it and let everybody live freely.
Speaker 6 (01:37:30):
Well, you can find out more information. I linked to
this on the blog so you can see the speakers.
They have a lot of I'm trying to find out
if they have a stream it button, but we'll find out.
I'll see if I can find out where they are
going to be where you can see this.
Speaker 5 (01:37:46):
So it's interesting that.
Speaker 6 (01:37:48):
You've got all these speakers coming forward. And I'm wondering
how much much like the March for Life, which brings
hundreds of thousands of people to DC every year for
fifty years. Yes, it's like it never happens every year.
It's like, oh, some people showed up and did a thing.
Speaker 7 (01:38:04):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:38:04):
It's amazing to me how carefully the news media will
avoid this.
Speaker 9 (01:38:09):
We absolutely We were actually at the March for Life
a couple of times, and what we were overwhelmed by
was that out of hundreds of thousands of people, over
half of them were young people, and the spirit was
absolutely so uplifting and joyful. It's not an angry crowd,
and by the way they cleaned up after themselves. I
would talk to the people, you know, that were over
the parks and the entire situation the mall, and they're like,
(01:38:31):
it's the neatest, tidiest gathering we've ever seen. And there
are these young people that are growing purposely picking things up.
Speaker 5 (01:38:38):
That's the thing.
Speaker 9 (01:38:39):
This is the first inaugural one, so we are, you know,
moderating our anticipation, but this is to launch it, to
get it off the ground and to say, let's keep
this going until we achieve either a parental rights amendment
or we have enough laws in place in states around
the country so that we never are on this precipice again.
This is the best thing for every child to have
(01:39:01):
those who know them best, whatever that family looks like,
the people who know them best making the decisions, partnering
with good teachers, partnering with good medical professionals, but not
being shut out. And that is something where I think
we're going to turn this around. It we're going to
turn our country around and where we can finally reach
out to the vast majority of Americans who agree with
(01:39:23):
this and make a lasting change.
Speaker 6 (01:39:26):
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you just said, and I
hope this march is wildly successful for two reasons. One,
I want to rattle the cages of parents who might
be getting complacent and let them know that they nothing
has changed in the schools, and if anything, some school
districts have gotten even more shady and more certain to
(01:39:50):
hide things from parents. And if we do not pass
laws that supersede these school districts and school boards, we
are going to have an absolutely disaster of parents being
separated from their children by the government because schools are
government run and things are only going to go downhill
from there.
Speaker 9 (01:40:08):
And I think it's a wonderful opportunity what I see
that's so exciting.
Speaker 5 (01:40:12):
I was just at the State Policy Network caring about
all these other things.
Speaker 9 (01:40:15):
There are micro schools, there are homeschool co ops, there
are all kinds of revolutionary new ideas that are coming
in because, honestly, as we all know, even if you
just judge our government run schools by an academic standpoint,
they are going in the absolute wrong direction. America is
no longer leading the industrialized nations.
Speaker 5 (01:40:35):
On most of the markers.
Speaker 9 (01:40:36):
I mean, we're down lower and lower and lower every time.
So it's time for us to unleash this ability to
innovate in education, for people to take hold of that,
and there is basically in many.
Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
Ways, a public school exit.
Speaker 10 (01:40:49):
Now.
Speaker 9 (01:40:50):
I also hope public schools don't get turned around, because
that is the option for many people. But it's about
making sure that it's responsive to the stakeholders, which at
the end end of the day are the academic achievement
of the students, which is really what schools are about.
The parents and the community members. And it's time for
grandparents to get involved. It's for you know, not just moms,
(01:41:11):
but dads and people from every walk of life. I
see this happening, all right, debraah Flora, thank you for
your time. You want to play out the day?
Speaker 5 (01:41:19):
Oh well, okay, I'm not sure what it is. It's
really easy.
Speaker 6 (01:41:22):
I did make you play when you were running for office,
but now you have to play because now it's time
for the most exciting segment all the radio.
Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
It's gone.
Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
I can't do it in no work. I mean to
perform that of the day.
Speaker 6 (01:41:37):
Okay, here's how it works as a dad joke of
the day, and the only requirement is you can laugh
or grown or nothing, depending on how.
Speaker 5 (01:41:44):
Bad it is day.
Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
I have to laugh and listen to me it's a
five minute walk from my house to the bar, but
a forty five minute walk from the bar to my house.
Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
The difference is staggering.
Speaker 5 (01:41:54):
Oh geez, so that.
Speaker 6 (01:41:57):
Was a sympathy aff I just know what I go
a right now, we have word of the day where
we guess the meaning of this word.
Speaker 3 (01:42:06):
Okay, yeah, it's a noun and it is propinquity. I'm sorry,
what propinquity spell that?
Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
Can I look it up on my phone? O O
P I N Q N U I T Y Okay,
So it's.
Speaker 6 (01:42:20):
For some put propinquity is that you have a tendency
to drink too much at a cocktail party.
Speaker 5 (01:42:28):
Propinquity, No, it is the level to which your etiquette
is at a tea party. Nice, there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
Yes, it is essentially a synonym of proximity, a formal
word that typically refers to nearness in place or time.
Speaker 9 (01:42:43):
I'll just.
Speaker 5 (01:42:45):
Thank you to a trivia question.
Speaker 6 (01:42:47):
Earth is not the only planet in our solar system
not named for an ancient Greek or Roman deity? In
what language do the word Earth originate?
Speaker 2 (01:42:57):
Earth?
Speaker 6 (01:42:58):
Okay, so it's not named for a Greek or Roman
I'm gonna say Latin. Where would go Latin earth? Let's say,
oh geez, not right?
Speaker 5 (01:43:05):
What incorrect? It was not Latin? Okay, not Latin. It's
not Greek, no German, German? Where it means the ground.
Now we play Jeopardy death flour gosh okay zero, So
you know it's okay. We're all sad at this game.
Speaker 6 (01:43:21):
If you want to answer the question, you shout out Deborah, okay,
and then I'll come to you and you answer the
form of a question I'm getting okay. You don't have
to wait till the end of the question. If you
know it, go ahead and ring in. All right, what
is our category?
Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
Today's category is shall we dance every word as dance
in it? You probably take this at the start of
every class, start of.
Speaker 5 (01:43:45):
Every cloud of every class.
Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
Take this at the start of every class.
Speaker 5 (01:43:49):
I don't know it has the word dance in it?
I got nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
Attendance?
Speaker 11 (01:43:53):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (01:43:57):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (01:43:58):
Now we're in good to that.
Speaker 2 (01:44:00):
We don't need that good blank riddance?
Speaker 5 (01:44:03):
Correct the.
Speaker 10 (01:44:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:44:10):
Let's go with essentially someone out.
Speaker 3 (01:44:12):
Of school that you need to go to if you
ever need help with something, and has the word dance.
Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
Someone at a school, an employee, They help you with stuff.
Speaker 5 (01:44:24):
I don't know, Deborah, what is attendance?
Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
Attendance? What is a guy dance.
Speaker 5 (01:44:34):
Counselor? But they're more when they get you in trouble.
Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
It's an overflowing amount of something.
Speaker 5 (01:44:38):
What is an abundant? Is an abundant sea? One to zero?
Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
You have one?
Speaker 5 (01:44:46):
Yes, I have to.
Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
Give rules. Okay, this is a tie breaker. Yes. Two
things that are in agreement are also in this with
each other.
Speaker 5 (01:45:02):
Oh, oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
Oh wait, no, no, don't don't say anything.
Speaker 5 (01:45:06):
If she I have no idea to say the question
one more time.
Speaker 2 (01:45:11):
Two things that are in agreements are also in this
with each other.
Speaker 6 (01:45:15):
Oh, I know it know.
Speaker 3 (01:45:17):
I mean she didn't say anything, so you still you
know you're wrong? According according.
Speaker 5 (01:45:28):
It, I just wanted because you did worse than me,
though I'm not sure it works. Okay, we got to
make room for ka Sports.
Speaker 6 (01:45:34):
We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you, debbora Flora. We'll talk
to you later, and stick right here with Koe
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