09-11-24 FULL SHOW - That Did Not Go Well for Trump, Plus 9/11 Remembered

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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God Can the Noisy Free, Mandy Donald Keith, you.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Real sad babe, locome local. Welcome to a Wednesday edition
of the show. I'm your host for the next three hours.
Mandy Connell, joined, of course by Anthony Rodriguez. You can
call him a rod and we'll take you right up
into three pm today and then hand the we'll do
the handoff to the KOA Sports guys and they'll take

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you through the afternoon. You know, sometimes in life I believe.
I'm a believer. I believe in God, and sometimes I
believe that God answers a prayer. And just before my
show started, I was just talking on Roskaminski's show, and
I realized how angry I was about last night's debate.
We'll get into that in a moment, and I said, God,
let me get through today without cursing. And then, as

(01:07):
if sent from above, I see the following headline and
I know it's all going to be okay. Headline woman
in a sexual relationship with an airplane for nine years,
says she is finally broken up with it, but we're
still friends.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Man, I've heard about the Mile High Club, but damn yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Michelle Kupkey spent years in a sexual relationship with a
Boeing seven thirty seven, eight hundred, but she said she's
broken up with Darling. Yeah, they're still friends though. And
I thought to myself, everything I'm mad about, there's nothing
as crazy as that. So thanks God for giving me
some perspective that, even though I think what's happening in

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the United States of America is truly the craziest and
most absurd thing I've ever seen, more on that in
a moment, then you give me this woman who is obvious,
like far crazier. Anyway, let's talk about the blog and
what's on it, shall we?

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Do you think you sat like near the back tail?
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
There was a picture on the story of her kissing
the airplane Anthony kissing it like like that. I mean, no, no,
but here we are, society. Let's normalize that, normalize everything.
I'm so close to having like one of those insane

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on air breakdowns that becomes the stuff of legend before
they lock me up and throw away the key.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Can we just can we just do that?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
What?

Speaker 6 (02:38):
No?

Speaker 5 (02:38):
Do that?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, I'm very close, very very close.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
That would definitely be a tech Just do this for
three hours.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
And that's ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United
States of America, Which brings me back to my rent,
What the blank is going on in the United States
of America? What is happening here? We literally have no
one in charge. President Biden does not have a freaking
clue where he is. He's been on vacation non stop.

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He probably has no idea he's in different places. And
then last night we have a debate that was done
by an organization that's supposed to be a news organization,
and yet they don't find the time to ask the
woman who was his right hand person for the entire
time that his mental acuity declined. They don't have the

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time to ask one question about when did you know
he was incapable of doing this job? But hey, let's
not talk about important things, right when we can get
Kamala Harris to masterfully troll Donald Trump by making comments
about people leaving is rallies early because they were boring,

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and rather than attack her on everything she has done,
He stands and pontificates for like a minute and a
half about how his rallies are awesome.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
The crowd size is fantastic. You don't know what you're
talking about.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
No one else cares about but Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
No one goes to Kamala's crowds are terrible, that those
rallies are terrible.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Have you been working on that?

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Because that was good, really good the crowd.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Obama made fun of my of my liking of crowd size.
Now Kamala is doing it. Leave me alone, Okay, I
like big crowd size.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
So last night, last night, we saw everything in Donald
Trump that I despise. You want to know why I
don't like that, dude? It was on full display last night.
His narcissism, his focus on the pettiest, stupidest bsd you
could ever imagine.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
I'm gonna send her a megahet. She's gonna love. It
was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
He squandered so many opportunities, so many opportunities because he
got sidetracked by his own enormous ego, and Kamala Harris
was masterful. He was masterful because her team laid out
a plan to distract him from actual substance, and she

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did it and it worked. They must have been high fiving,
like their hands must have fallen off from high fiving
last night because as a rehearse does it was, and
oh boy, it was rehearsed. And boy did she say
absolutely nothing of merit throughout the entire night. And with
ABC on her side, oh boy, she wasn't going to

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be asking any difficult questions. Here's my summary of the
questions that were asked the candidates. Vice President Harris, why
is Donald Trump bad? Donald Trump? Why are you bad?
That was pretty much it.

Speaker 7 (05:42):
I mean, it was.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
It was the worst moderated debate that I've ever seen.
But ultimately those two, one of those people that was
on stage last night is going to be the president
of the United States of Americas.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
Horrible.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
One of them was elected by the party that I
I am still a part of, by people with a
slavish devotion to a man who has an enormous ego
and was so easily sidetracked life not last night that
it might have cost him the election. It may have
in a close election. Everything matters, No, I know. Crowd sizes,

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I got it, crowd sizes got.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
It, I got good. Crad it, I got good crowd sizes.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
And then on the Democratic side, we have a woman
that not a single person voted for in the primary.
But hey, before we let Democrat voters off the hook,
let's remember they're the ones that just decided to go
along with replacing the candidate they all voted for. Where
are the protests about that? Where are the angry editorials
from Democratic leaders around the country. Not a single one.

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And so the rest of us here in America, we're
all just screwed. We're royally screwed. And for all of
you Trump supporters, I haven't even looked at the text
line yet because I haven't even gotten to the blog yet,
because I started the show so mad. Before you even
come to the text line, really you're gonna defend that
last night, and before you come at me with you

(07:09):
know what, ABC was totally in the bag for Kamal
Harris Abs so freaking lutely they were.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
If I may break the CEO for you for the
text line, the first text I see spot on from
seven two to eight, Oh thank you America lost last night.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Correct America is gonna lose in November two. I just
I'm I'm so completely disappointed in US America the voters, and.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
I was followed up from the eight seven to seven
to two. I like the crowds, and I cannot lie you.
Other polls cannot deny. Well done.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Thanks for that, appreciate that. Why do we do the blog?
Why do we do that? For a second? Yeah, let's
do that now. I have not invented my spleen for
a moment.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
I was nice, all right, wasn't the explosion I was
looking for.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
But well, I'm trying very hard not to say curse
words on the radio.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Anthony was really good, not yeap swearing.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Okay, here's what we're gonna do. Go to the blog.
Find it at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the headline that says nine to eleven twenty
four blog that did not go well for Trump plus
nine to eleven remembered and click on that, and here
are the headlines you will find with it.

Speaker 8 (08:22):
Half of American all with ships and clipments of press plant.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Today on the blog. Sure it was one against two
at last night's debate, but still weather Wednesday, they at
twelve thirty. Who are the real defenders of freedom? How
about some golf for veterans. It was just twenty three
years ago. The towers came down, trans Woman goes nuts
and Panera Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris. The guy who's

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shot at patrol officers has been identified. Aurora gets name
checked during the debate. Where are the Denver cash cow
redlight cameras sending you the most tickets? Dude ripped through
the Colorado Trail Deshaun Watson gets sued again. The Colorado
Chamber of Commerce says yes to rank choice voting. Rocker
Dave Growl makes a confession. It's Littleton Restaurant Week. Could

(09:09):
a low carb diet lead to diabetes? Is climate change
killing cabernet? The war in Israel is about protecting Western civilization,
and now a song about ice cream? On board footage
from a thrill ride, Reasons to book whoops hang on,
reasons to book the worst seat on the plane, and
Target rolls out new carts, don't borrow Suffering from the future.

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Would have been nice if ABC had fact checked Vice
President Harris. Those are the headlines on the blog at
Manday's blog dot com, and as you can see, it's
voluminous it's large. It's it's the biggest ever ride, the
biggest ever BLI so we talk about the biggest blog. Now,

(09:55):
my blog's never boring. My crowd size is boring. Blog
isnt boring.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
It's the biggest, it's the hugest, the biggest, it's it
is the best.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
It's thank you because you're like bringing me off, bringing
me back from the ledge, bringing me back.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
You.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Okay, so here's where we are right now. Yesterday, it
was man, it was it was it was. It was
a tough sled and Donald Trump looked very unprepared and
Kamala Harris looked over prepared. And I'm just going to
say it because it seemed this way, and I'm not
trying to start a conspiracy theory, but it almost seemed

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like she knew the questions right. Every answer was so
carefully scripted and well rehearsed. And I was talking to
my personal trainer this morning actually about this. And one
of the things that I think Kamala Harris struggles with,
like Hillary Clinton struggled with it is authenticity because I

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think they've spent their lives and this is actually a
defense of these women. So prepare for this to sit
down for a moment. But I think that when they
were coming up, less Kamala than Hillary. She came up
still during an era of politics where women had to
have a certain veneer in order to be accepted. It
was very difficult for a woman like Hillary, Oh, I

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think is just naturally a very serious person. She had
to protect a certain image and that creates a lack
of authenticity. And I think maybe Kamala, maybe because of
her race or what she perceived to be an issue,
maybe she felt the same way. I don't know, but
it creates a barrier to feeling like you understand who

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they are. And one thing you'll say about Donald Trump, man,
that guy has no guile in him about who he is.
He just puts himself out their wants in all, which
is one of the reasons I think it's kind of
hard to attack him because everybody knows everything that's wrong
with Donald Trump, because he doesn't have artifice, like you
know what I mean, He just is who he is.

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And I think Kamala Harris struggles with that authenticity, and
last night, I don't know if she made inroads in
that direction, but I don't think either candidate killed themselves
or elevated themselves so far above. I think Kamala Harris
established herself as someone who sounded presidential, someone who could
look presidential, although I will say I think the faces

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were much more of a problem than people want to admit.
So I don't know. I don't think this was a
game breaker, but I you know, in a very close election,
and this is going to be a very close election,
every mistake matters a lot. And last night was a
huge mistake for Donald Trump, huge mistake. So and it

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went as good as it could go for Kamala Harris.
She didn't get pressed on anything. It did not get
push back on a single She never got fact checked.
He said things that had been proven false again and
again and again and again, and there was no fact
check the whole There are good sides on or find

(13:14):
people on both sides that has been even politifiact is like, yeah,
that didn't happen, that's not what he said. But they
didn't push back on anything. There were no difficult follow
up questions. The follow up questions were Donald Trump would
say something and it literally would be like Vice President Harris,
why is he wrong? I mean, it was just insane,

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But Donald Trump has always sold himself as the guy
who could always get over in a negotiation. Right, He's
always sold himself as the guy who has keen insight
into others' behavior. But if I am Vladimir Putin, I
see that display last night, and all I know is
I have to feed the guy's ego and he's gonna
do whatever I want. So it took that off the table.

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It was just it was really rotten. The whole thing
was rotten to the core. And yet here we are.
One of these idiots is going to be president in November.
I really, you know. And Ross asked me at the
end of the show. He said, you're committed. You're voting
for Trump, and I'm like, yeah, even after last night,

(14:18):
I'm still voting for the guy because the alternative is
that much worse. And yeah, I'm in Colorado. I could
vote for a third party. I could vote for someone
else in some kind of symbolic thing. But you know what,
as screwed up as this country is right now, I
think I have to be on record as taken a

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side to at least say, look, I tried by voting
for this because here I thought it would be better
if it doesn't work out to be better. And I
was saying, look, with the best information that I had
and based on what was running against him, it seemed
like the best decision I could make at the time.
But I feel like to just sit it out on principle.

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I don't know. This election just feels bad, you guys.
It feels bad every election. We get the whole spiel.
It's the most important election in our lifetime. There's never
been a more important election than this. One happens every
single election cycle, but none of them have felt so consequential,
you know. I mean, we're at a very precarious place

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in the world. Not that this not that we haven't
been in precarious places in the world, you know, in
recent history, even but we've got the Middle East that
is really really close to being completely on fire, right.
We've got Russia still fighting with Ukraine in what is
bound to be a long term stalemate at best, and

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no one in the world stage is negotiating a real
peace deal there, No one is in that. And then
we have China who's probably just gonna roll into Taiwan
at any minute. And I mean, why wouldn't you, Why
wouldn't you The United States. It's the powerhouse in the world.
We are in chaos. We have literally no one behind
the resolute desk right now in the Oval Office. I mean,

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Joe Biden apparently doesn't even know where he is because
they probably he's sitting on a beach in Delaware. They're like, no,
you're in the Oval Office. It just looks different. We redecorated.
Oh okay, all right. Why wouldn't the world just turn
out and turn on fire. Why wouldn't it There's no
one there to stop anyone. Europe won't even pony up

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for their own protection because they know while the United
States will take care of it. I just it's the
world is very close to cataclysmic outcomes. And on the
one hand, we have a woman who I truly believe
has no value system when it comes to foreign policy,
and whoever is talking in her ear is going to
have that influence and I don't trust that. And then

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you have Donald Trump, who, in his own weird way,
projects such strength because everyone thinks he's crazy. That that's
a deterrence, But does it make our relationships with our
allies stronger in the long run or weaker? I want
our allies to pay their fair share. By the way,
I admire Donald Trump for making that happen. He needs
way more credit than he's getting. But ultimately, I'd like

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to remain allies with these people long term. So it's
just we're just in a dumpster fire. I mean, just
an absolute dumpster fire. Let me read some quick text
messages and then, thank goodness, we got weather Wednesday today
with Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one, so we'll be
able to talk about something else for just a minute
and allow my blood pressure to come to my pulse.
Right now is ninety one. That is not good.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
It needs you to take a moment and then to take.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
A breath of the break into the news out of
the mouth. Anyway, we will do that, and then I
have a bunch of text messages. Oh Manday, you're getting desperate,
desperate for what? Desperate for what? I am desperate. I'm
desperate for better candidates. I'm desperate for leadership in this
country that isn't going to completely take us through the toilet,

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because right now, we had a debate last night. We
are sitting on thirty six trillion dollars in national debt,
and not one single question could be asked about that,
not one that my friend. Yeah, I'm desperate. I'm desperate
for any kind of leadership, Mandy. Agree with all you said. However,

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I have no respect for ABC. Terrible organization, I said
last night, and I mean it. If I am the
head of the Republican National Committee, I get on the
phone and call every single Republican in office and say,
please do not appear on ABC for the foreseeable future,
if ever, because they hate you, they hate conservatives, and

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we've got to stop playing their game. But that's how
I feel about ABC. But Trump would have lost even
if they hadn't done that. To be clear, our friend
and chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one, Dave Frasier, Hello.

Speaker 7 (19:04):
Dave, Hey, good afternoon. How are you.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
I am. I'm cranky about the state of affairs in America,
but I'm happy to talk to you about the weather.
How about that?

Speaker 7 (19:15):
Yeah, I was listening, so I'm gonna tread lightly.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
I don't want to be the one.

Speaker 7 (19:18):
To cause you to curse on the radio.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
No, you could never do that unless you tell me
that we're about to have four feet of snow tomorrow,
in which case I can make no promises that I
would not curse you.

Speaker 7 (19:28):
No, that's not coming anytime soon that I can see.

Speaker 9 (19:32):
No.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
And can we talk for a second, Let's not talk
about the weather here so much. Can we talk about
what's happening in California right now? Because are we going
to get the smoke? Everything is on fire in southern
California right now? Like everything is on fire?

Speaker 9 (19:47):
Ye?

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Are we going to get that? Is not going to
impact our air quality because I have so far been
enjoying the summer without it. But man, it looks like
it's going to be bad.

Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yeah, it's possible, I think to the north and east
of the front Range with the windflow aloft and some
smoke could drift in. So far, what we've been seeing
is it's up high, so it's not filtering down row
and we've got a chance with thunderstorms in the forecast
that helps to stir the air a little bit. So
for right now, that's not a huge concern. Plus, tomorrow

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our windflow be from a different direction, be more southerly,
and so it won't be tapping into what's going on
out west, and so I think for the next few
days we're okay.

Speaker 7 (20:25):
But that is.

Speaker 6 (20:25):
Certainly something we're keeping an eye on, especially given how
large those fires are.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
All right, So what are we looking at here?

Speaker 7 (20:32):
Justin weatherwise, Yes, gat a thunderstorms this afternoon.

Speaker 6 (20:36):
We've had a chance each day this week, and not
much is materialized down here. We're in that downsloping pattern
that we talk about where the storms kind of make
their way from the mountains down over the face of
the foothills and that downward motion drives them out.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
So while we've had.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
A few sprinkles up and down the front range, I
think today there's just a slightly better setup that we'll
get some wedding rains in a few areas. But don't
hold your breath for rain today. It's a low chance,
twenty to thirty percent chance, and then after that we
go back to dry conditions. Don't really have much going
on for rain chances in the forecast. The eastern plains
east of Denver on Sunday might see a straight storm,

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but otherwise I've got Denver's forecast right. The good news
is once we get past tomorrow's ninety degree day, I
don't see any more nineties, and the deeper we get
into September, it's hard to reach ninety because of the
shorter days of the low sun angle.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Okay, good, I'm okay with that. I'm enough with the
ninety I'm ready for our like two and a half
weeks of fall we we get before we get the
first big no storm. I just I don't know. I
like this weather. I like it in the eighties that
we're coming into the time of year that I really
really enjoy the most in Colorado. And I know that

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you know, some people askew this time of year and
they're like, oh, it's mud season. It's unpredictable that this
is my favorite time of the year weatherwise here. It
just seems like we've got some crazy blips here or there.
But for the most part, it's pretty stable.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
And the great that's the word to describe it. The
stable part of it. I mean, you've got your beautiful
upper seventies eighties. During the day, you get to enjoy
the warmth. The days are shorter, so that warmth or
in some people's opinion, that he doesn't stick around long.
And then you've got your crisp overnight loads in the.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
Upper forties and sifties.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
I just was out running a few errands and that
was something that somebody had pulled me aside and said,
I love this time of the year because of those
overnight loads. Yeah, the windows open and it's cool, and
so that's the benefit of September and October in my opinion,
two of the best months of the year. However, they
are snow months, so you can see wild swings. We've
seen that, we know that happens. We've had blizzards, we've

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had shockingly cold outbreaks that kind of killed vegetation. So
they're not pristine when it comes to the weather. But
overall that's stable. Kind of what you expect is fantastic.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, Dave, I got a question that we've talked about
in the past, but I think it's a very common question,
so let's answer it again. And it says, what does
it actually mean when they say a certain percentage of rain,
like a forty chance of rain? Does that mean how
much chance you have over all or for a particular
area in your city? So how do you come up
with that number?

Speaker 6 (23:09):
It's a calculation that's based on a geographical area.

Speaker 7 (23:13):
U and I we we.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
Struggle with this all the time. You know, either way
you look at it, it is a chance, right, the
percentage should give you some idea of whether that chance
is a low risk that you'll run into rain or
a widespread chance that you know, we're going to see
it just about everywhere. But it's not calculated to whether
or not it's going to rain. It's just a matter

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of in a geographical area. You take that geographical area,
divide it out, you look at the risk factors as
it comes to rain, and there's a mathematical formula that
calculates out that it's a twenty percent risk or it's
a thirty percent risk, because in that geographical square, let's
just call it, there's probably going to be rained. But
the chance is so remote and it's so scattered and convective.

Speaker 7 (23:59):
That you know the risk is low for most people.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
But as I jokingly said before, if I tell you
there's a thirty percent chance of brain and you're the
one coming out of the grocery still caring groceries and
it rained on you, your chance just went to a hundreds.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Okay, let me ask this question. I think this is
a good question. How many hours in a day constitutes
a sunny day, Because even on a sunny day, you
can have a squirt straight cloud here and there is
partly cloudy. So how many hours do you have to
have or how clear does it have to be.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
It's going to be based on think of the adjective
as the sky. So if you say it's going to
be partly sunny, clouds are going to win out. If
you say it's going to be partly cloudy, the sun's
going to be a little more, so it's only part
of the sky that will be covered out. You know,
the Chamber of Commerce joke here is that I shouldn't
call it a joke because they market on it, is
that we get three hundred days of sunshine. It's actually

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closer to about two sixty to two seventy. So most
days it's about how much of the cloud cover is
going to block the sky, and then you weigh that
out versus, you know, the duration to figure out is
it a partly cloudy, is it a partly sunny, is
it mostly cloudy?

Speaker 7 (25:07):
Is it mostly sunny?

Speaker 6 (25:08):
And so there are there's no hard line to the hours,
but if you look at what we look at and
you look at the computer models and stuff, it's pretty
easy to say, like today is going to be a
partly cloudy day, so we kind of break it up
a little better. Language morning sunshine, increasing clouds, turning cloud
in the afternoon.

Speaker 7 (25:24):
With showers and thunderstorms.

Speaker 6 (25:26):
We're trying to be a little more specific than just
the adjective describing the sky.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
So here's the question. Do you know the record for
the most days in a row of not getting below
fifty degrees? So as below I guess.

Speaker 7 (25:41):
Yeah, or blow off the top of my head.

Speaker 6 (25:44):
Now, I would have to go in and use our
analyzer for historic data.

Speaker 7 (25:50):
To see what that is.

Speaker 6 (25:51):
So not going below fifty degrees, so that would include
overnight lows.

Speaker 7 (25:55):
I'd have to go and pull that and.

Speaker 6 (25:56):
See what that is.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Well, now I want to know my head.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
No, yes, I'll pull it and now I'll text it
to a rodbody. Just a comer of days not going
below fistes. Okay, I'll google, I'll look into that. I'll
pull up the historical see if I can find that.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Okay, And this person just said Indian summer, and I'm
I'm gonna admit something. I have a hazy idea of
what Indian summer is, but I'm not sure what exactly
it is. Because growing up in Florida, you don't really
have seasons per se, so you don't worry about Indian
summer because it's just summer and then like four weeks
of cold and then summer again. Right, So what exactly

(26:32):
is Indian summer and are we having one?

Speaker 6 (26:35):
Not yet? Now. Traditionally it's a warm period that follows
our first freeze. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, so you get
your first freezing temperatures of the year, and now the freeze,
the first freeze is behind us, and then all of
a sudden you enter back into a warm period. And
that's generally the definition that is used across the country.
So it's that that dip into oh it's winter, we're

(26:58):
freezing now, and then all of a sudden, that's fake.
It's warm again.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah, that's the we have fay winter and then back
to end of summer kind of thing. Okay, good now,
I just learned something very much. Just came back from Kansas.
It was cooler there for the last four days than
here in Kansas. What's that about?

Speaker 6 (27:16):
So they were just the weather pattern has been driving
storms to the east of us, and so they've had
a little more benefit of a northerly flow.

Speaker 7 (27:24):
Than we have. We've been in more of a southwesterly flow.

Speaker 6 (27:27):
We've been tapping still into desert, dry hot air, and
that's what's been pushing us. I mean, we're eleven days
into the month, and five of the days so far
in September then at ninety degrees or higher. None of
those temperatures on those hot days reached record levels. But
the average right now for Denver's eighty two. So you
can think, you know, we're running five days above. I

(27:48):
think right, five days at ninety or higher, four days
at eighty or higher, and one day. Most people won't
remember it, that refreshing day we had almost two weeks
ago on Thursday, where we were in the seventies.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
I still remember it fondly, Dave. I remember it fondley
that Thursday, a couple of weeks ago, when it was
just delightful. I'm looking forward to more of those days.
Dave Fraser, thank you again for your time. I look
forward to your text about how many days in a
row without going below fifty degrees we've had.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
I'll get it too shortly, all right.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Thanks Dave. See, this is why we do this, and
just so you know we might be okay, we are
giving away some Pittsburgh Steeler or tickets you know they're
playing the Broncos on our Instagram page at Kawa, Colorado.
Go check it out and follow directions. I do want
to ask you, guys. I'd love to have you text
us at five six six and I know what were
your thoughts about last night's debate. Now I've got my

(28:43):
reliable Trumpet already on the text line, like, I can't
believe you guys, you make it. It was so amazing
with us whatever, dude, whatever, I mean, even slavish devotee
to Donald J. Trump have to admit he performed extremely

(29:05):
poorly last night. He left so many attack points on
the table, and he would give a really good answer,
and then he would keep talking and he would ramble
into some area where you're like, what are you talking about?

Speaker 9 (29:19):
Stop talking?

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Text us five six six nine zero and we'll be
getting those throughout the day. I'd like to know your
opinion on it. I don't think the debate was as
nearly as consequential as the first debate, in which Joe
Biden performed so poorly that the Democratic Party undemocratically just

(29:41):
took him out of power and brought in a new
candidate when they thought they could manage better anyway. So
I'd love to know your thoughts on the debate last night.
Just kind of get that out of the way. In
a few minutes. Here, we're going to talk to a
guy who's an economist named Alexander Salter. He wrote a

(30:01):
great column about which party is the Party of Freedom?
Because this was right after the DNC when this column
came out, and the DNC was all about freedom, like
We're gonna make every bit more free. And as I
sat there, I was like, wait, what world are we
living in? We're going to talk about that next. And
then a little bit later in the show, I woke
up this morning and I, you know, did as I

(30:23):
always do. I go downstairs and I start working on stuff.
And when I went to type the today's date into
the blog headline, I was like, oh man, it's nine
to eleven. And I went to find a picture to
put on the blog today from the nine to eleven Memorial?
Have you been to New York, A Rod, Have you
been to the nine to eleven Memorial?

Speaker 4 (30:41):
My memory, sirs, I went to New York my first
time when I was a kid. I think I was
only ten and it was before I think they even
had the memorial. I think I was still really ground zero, right,
But since then, uh, I don't think I've.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
Had a chance to go to the full on official memorial.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
It is beautiful, it is really beautiful, and it is
you feel the gravity of where you are right, you
feel the weight of it. And it's very strange because
where it is. It's in a bustling part of New York. Again,
they've rebuilt the whole thing. It looks absolutely beautiful. The
subway station there is gorgeous. It is a work of art. Right,

(31:22):
So the whole area around is bustling. But when people
come close to the waterfalls that are going down and
start looking at the names, everybody gets quiet. Everybody just
gets silent. And it is the perfect memorial I think.
I think New York really did a great job commemorating
what happened on nine to eleven. But today on the blog,

(31:43):
if you have young people in your life, and I'm
talking a Rod's age are younger, they may not be
getting the full picture of what happened on nine to eleven.
And I don't know what schools teach today, I don't
know how that's taught. I will tell you that when
I went to school and then nineteen seventies, I don't
think I learned a single thing about the Vietnam War,

(32:05):
a single thing throughout twelve years. I graduated in nineteen
eighty seven. I just think they just basically glossed over them,
like it's too soon, we don't want to talk about it.
But there's a great video from the from Prager you
it's c J. Pearson, really great young kid, and he
just reviews what happened that day and it's very powerful.
It's five minutes. Maybe take a minute and then say

(32:27):
a prayer of thanks that we're still here walking and talking.
Even as we're walking, talking and fighting all the time.

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Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well, Well, welcome to the second hour of the show.
I'm your host, Mandy Connell, joined of course by my
right hand man, Anthony Rodriguez. And we were at the
DNC A rod and I and there were things that
were happening at the DNC that made me think we
had entered into some kind of upside down universe. And
one of those was talking about the Democratic Party protecting

(33:22):
our freedoms. And it was the most bizarre thing to
hear from a party who genuinely finds a lot of
the rights, you know, illuminated in the Constitution distasteful and troublesome.
So I wasn't the only one to notice this. Economist
Alexander Salter is a professor of economics at Texas Tech
University and a signatory of the Freedom Conservatism's Statement of Principles.

(33:47):
He also is the author of a fantastic column that
ran on Real Clear Politics shortly after the DNC Conservatives,
not Progressives are Freedom's champion, and he joins me today, Alexander,
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (34:03):
Great to be here, Mandy, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
That was a really long wind up, but I mean,
I figured I needed to set it up because your
column does a really great job of clearly delineating which
party is the true party of freedom. Now, did you
see the same thing I saw at the DNC? And
is that what inspired you?

Speaker 10 (34:21):
I saw something strange, something that even now more than
a week after the fact. I'm having a hard time
explaining a party which, for a century, political movement of
political philosophy, for more than a century, has committed itself
to taxing us, regulating us, mandating, nudging, surveilling, is now
all of a sudden the party of freedom. Well, at least,

(34:43):
as we understand freedom in terms of the American experiment,
it means ordered liberty, It means natural rights, the rights
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Progressivism as
a philosophy is all about survey curtailing excuse me, those
rights in the pursuit of other social goals. Now, perhaps
those are legitimate goals, and we can have that debate.

(35:05):
I for one, side with the founders. But nonetheless, to
identify as a pro freedom movement as a radical departure
from what progressivism has admitted to the world, that has
been for again more than a century, this is very strange.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Well, don't you think, though? I mean, ultimately we see
the end results of progressivism taken to the m degree
in countries like Venezuela, right, I mean, you see what
happens when government takes over everything to create a utopia,
and that branding is becoming an issue, I think for
the progressive movement. It has been for a long time,
as people are seeing in real time what happens when

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someone says I'm going to take care of you cradle
to grave. So is this just kind of a sort
of a marketing attempt to rebrand what they're doing as freedom,
in an attempt to change the language in such a
way that we won't even notice that it's not.

Speaker 10 (36:00):
You have to figure it's mostly rhetorical, because look at
what they purport to offer under the label of freedom.
A candidate for president of the United States has just
called for price controls on essential food items.

Speaker 7 (36:13):
Well, if you want the freedom to.

Speaker 10 (36:14):
Purchase a good at a low price, except that there's
no goods on the shelf to buy, am I any freer?

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Great?

Speaker 10 (36:21):
You've kept the price of food, except now I go
to the grocery store and there's nothing on the shelf.
That doesn't make me feel very free. Income taxes, unrealized
capital gains taxes, subsidies to new home buyers. That one
sounds like a good one until you realize all it's
going to do is drive up the cost of housing
even further. From twenty sixteen to twenty twenty, average home

(36:41):
prices in the United States rose about eleven percent. Since
the President Biden has taken office, they're up approximately twenty
five percent. And when you offer a twenty five thousand
dollars subsidy to new home buyers, as Vice President Harris
wants to do if she becomes president, that's going to
result in not many more houses because it takes a
lot of time and effort to get new housing builds in,

(37:03):
but it's going to immediately jack up prices and to
make housing even more unaffordable for many Americans.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
What kind of.

Speaker 10 (37:10):
Freedom is this that makes all goods and services more
expensive and harder to get? Again, this is not what
most Americans think of when they think of liberty.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Has the I read a column not too long ago
about It was written by a guy on the left
who said, uh, he flies a flag outside his house,
and his neighbors for the longest time assumed he was
a Republican. And his point was, you know, we've allowed
certain symbols to be sort of hijacked by one side
or the other, and it's time for us to take

(37:43):
those symbols back. And after reading your column, I'm like,
do they just view the word freedom as a symbol
and they want to attach it to what they're doing again,
hoping we won't notice, because everything you just laid out
obviously is not about freedom. And more importantly, are Republicans
able to push back in a way that's going to
sort of stop this, you know, nip it in the bud.

Speaker 10 (38:08):
I think that conservatism has within itself resources to effectively
convince the American public. No, if what you're after is freedom,
what you desire is liberty the natural rights proclaimed in
the Declaration of Independence and secured bioconstitution. Here's where you
want to look. There's currently a big debate going on
in conservative circles over the exact nature of the proper

(38:31):
conservative policy stances on various issues. So you have people
who identify as national conservatives who want to make sure
that the government is affirmatively upholding our rights. You have
freedom conservatives, people who want to restrain the growth of government.
But even if you look at the nationalist conservative side,
you think, oh, that kind of sounds like progressivism. If
you read their policy proposals, a lot of them could

(38:52):
have been written by Alexander Hamilton. This is very much
a debate within the accepted parameters of what we want
the government to do for us accept and uphold natural rights.
But when you read about what progressives want to do again,
it sounds like vintage Woodrow Wilson, President of the United
States more than one hundred years ago, who famously said, look,
the American experiment is obsolete. Separation of powers, checks and balances.

(39:16):
All that was a bad idea. All we've done is
divide power without making it responsible. So in place of
our historical traditions of order liberty, I want to unleash
the administrative state. I want to build a powerful bureaucracy
led by the president. It's going to be largely unconstrained
by the judiciary, uncontrolled by Congress, and we're just going
to turn everything into one giant bureaucracy and make things

(39:37):
work better that way. Well, for anyone who spent any
length of time at a Department of Motor Vehicles, I
think that you know the limit of that. Imagine wanting
to turn all of social life into the post office
and thinking that most Americans are going to say, yep,
that's freedom. It is absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
So you know, what you were just talking about is
the concept that there's a better way to do it,
so we should ditch everything and start over from scratch.
That is very much a part of the progressive movement
right now, whether it is Black Lives Matter and their
stated goal of destroying the nuclear family and ripping out

(40:15):
the capitalist system. It seems that progressivism at this point
is more about destruction of what has come before, whether
or not it works or not, and more about just
sort of burning everything down in these nebulous hopes that
whatever will rise up seems better. Is that an accurate
assessment in your view?

Speaker 10 (40:37):
I'm sure that progressives don't think that they're doing that,
but I would say that is the practical consequences of
their policies.

Speaker 7 (40:43):
This is one of the.

Speaker 10 (40:43):
Major reasons that I identify as a conservative, and specifically a
member of the freedom conservative movement.

Speaker 7 (40:49):
If you go and look.

Speaker 10 (40:50):
What they're actually trying to achieve. Freedom and conservatives. They
want to strengthen the nuclear family because they recognize that it
is an absolutely necessary social institution for promoting collective harmony.
They want to make sure that we return power from Washington,
DC to state and local governments because we know that
the closer that citizens are to places where the governing

(41:13):
actually happens. The higher quality governance you actually get, the
less corruption there is. There's all these things that freedom
conservatives want to do in terms of, for example, restraining
the growth of government spending, getting a control over the
federal reserve, and monetary policy so we don't have another
several years episode of crippling inflation like we just suffered through.

(41:33):
On every one of these issues, I see progressives on
the side of making government even bigger than it already
is and less accountable than it already is, and those
two things together are a surefire recipe for poor public policy.
I would argue that if we want to actually get
the American experiment back on track, we need to embrace

(41:54):
the principles outlined in the Freedom Conservative Statement of Principles
and put those into practice. And that's how we actually
get back things like federalism, subsidiarity, checks and balances, the
things that made America a truly great nation and can again.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
I thought last night, and I don't want to bring
you into conversation about last night's debate because I didn't
bring that up with you, but one of the things
that struck me last night was that President Trump missed
an opportunity to really remind people of what you just
said that ultimately we live in a federalist system and
with issues like abortion, those are best decided at the
state level. And we have allowed so much creep over

(42:31):
the years, the last one hundred years of a federalism
or or federal power, I should say that people forget
most of the things that we expect out of the
federal government should be done by the state government. Is
that just a function of a poor educational system when
it comes to how things are supposed to work, that
we've now just accepted that this is how they do work.

Speaker 10 (42:55):
Goodness that the story in and of itself. Part of
this is due to politicians and bureaucrats doing what politicians
and bureaucrats always try and do, which is get more
powerful themselves. But this is also I think a fault
with us, the citizens, because this happened over a long
enough time span that we really should have waken up
before now and said, this is not where most decisions

(43:16):
are supposed to be made. Again, as you said, the
system is designed such that most of the governing we
actually care about on a day to day basis should
take place at the state and local levels. Unfortunately, the
American public is legendarily indifferent to these sort of procedural arguments.
They care much more about what is done rather than

(43:38):
who decides or what procedures we follow in order to
do it. If we're going to actually pull this thing
back from the drink, if we're going to get control
of the deficit in the national debt, if we're going
to rebuild an economy that works for all Americans, then
we have to actually start caring about these procedural arguments.
Think about healthcare, for example, we have this whole debate

(44:00):
about what Washington, DC should do about healthcare, and that's
an important debate, but we need to add an entire
other dimension to it. The health outcomes and public health
issues affecting Washington, DC are not the same as Austin, Texas,
as Los Angeles, as East Liverpool, Ohio. Pick your city,
pick your locality, pick your municipality. It's going to be

(44:20):
different circumstances reflecting the particulars of time and place. And
so we need to decentralize these major policy decisions as
much as we can so we can have more direct
oversight of them, so we can better control financing and
production and distribution, and so that we can better reflect
the natural variation in this massive country of more than

(44:41):
three hundred and thirty million people. We cannot continue to
do this from the top down because one size all
situations solutions, excuse me, are not actually going to work
when you have a country as diverse as we are.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
And that was the genius of our system in the
first place. I mean it was it was the portability
of being able to go to a different state if
they were more to your liking than being stuck in
one place where we're all under the same federal edicts.
And you know, this is such an interesting conversation. What
about let me ask you this question. This is completely
out of the blue, just in case you wonder where
this came from. I have long been advocating, not long

(45:17):
but long enough for the complete decentralization of the departments
of government. I don't think there's any reason why the
Department of Commerce should necessarily be in Washington, d c.
And with technology being what it is now, there's no
reason to have all of these people that all work
for the government and all have a vested interest in
lobbying for bigger government to be in the same town

(45:38):
when the rest of us are out here in fly
over country, right, I mean, is there any chance or
what would you think the possibility of that just decentralizing
these agencies, putting them close to the people they actually serve.
Would that ever happen?

Speaker 10 (45:54):
Yeah, geographic dispersion of the agencies of the entire departments,
even of the circumstances call for That's been a proposal
that's been on the table for a while. It comes
back every now and then at the margin, I think
it would help. It might make sense to have major
offices for interior, for example, for Wyoming and Montana in
places like that that are actually close to where a

(46:15):
lot of that governing takes place. That being said, I
don't think that our problem is primarily one of concentration
of these offices in one city. I think that a
lot of what we're seeing is due to the fact
that a lot of people just don't care about decentralised
local government. Decentralized local government is hard. It requires active

(46:39):
participation of the citizenry. It's very fun to lambass the
politicians and bureaucrats and judges because we think that this
is something that has been done to us, the erosion
of our constitutional heritage. And partly that's true, but we
the citizens, we the people, have to also admit our
complicity that we allow this to happen, often times by

(47:00):
allowing other people to dictate us the ordinary outcomes of
you can choose auction AARB, but federalism isn't really on
the table. Well when we acquiesce to that, we kind
of asked for this, yep. And so I think that
having that agency dispersal would help in the sense that
it would actually make it easier for John Q public
to keep an eye on what the government is doing.
But that doesn't change the fact that we have to

(47:22):
actually take an interest. We have to get involved. We
have to be ready to devote our time and attention
to public affairs at a meaningful level, even if there's
no concrete payout for us. And that the tall order,
but that is absolutely what order, liberty and self governance require.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
I hate it when my own personal freedoms depend on
the actions of others to be more civically engaged. That
seems like a mighty big bar for those to get
over right now, Alexander Salter, I really appreciate the conversation.
I find it very very interesting. Her column grabbed me
right away and I enjoyed it. I linked to it
today on my blog at mandy'sblog dot com for the listeners.

(47:58):
I hope we can chat again in the future.

Speaker 9 (48:03):
Thank you so much, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
All right, thank you. Very interesting conversation. You know, here's
the thing I think that and this is gonna sound
like a shot, it's really not. There are a lot
of people starting in two thousand and eight and we
had a tea party in southwest Florida. That was the
first place I had a radio show in Fort Myers,

(48:25):
and we had a massive tea party. We had like
five thousand people. It was so much fun. I was
hugely pregnant, like, oh my god, I was so pregnant.
And I was part of the tea party movement. I
supported tea party you know, politicians. And what ended up
coming out of that movement was that a lot of
people just ran around waiving the Constitution and just yelling

(48:47):
the word freedom, and it undermined the intellectual heft to
the movement to a certain extent. And it was frustrating
for me because it's important because you guys, freedom is
hard to live in. A free society means that you
have inherent responsibilities. You have to take care of yourself,
You're expected to take care of your family. If you

(49:08):
have time in the inclination, you can help take care
of your civic spaces, right you can join clubs that
do nice things for your community. Or we used to
back in the day. And I was frustrated when freedom
became like a bumper sticker with nothing behind it, with

(49:30):
no conversations about what that actually looks like and what
that means in the sense of civic responsibility. And I
think it's an important conversation to have because too many
people love to run around talking about their right to
do this, their right to do that, but you never
hear them talk about the responsibility they have as a citizen.
And with rights come responsibilities. It's sort of part of

(49:53):
the deal. But we don't talk about the responsibilities. We
don't talk about being an informed voter, we don't talk
about pay paying attention to the issues that are happening
in our area. We don't do it. And y'all, I am,
I am blessed. And if you're one of these listeners,
I so appreciate you, guys. I have listeners in every
community around this area. There are the people that watch

(50:16):
every city council or town council or county commission meeting
and they send me things and say, you know, somebody
needs to know about this. There are there's those people
are amazing. Most of us are like, dude, I got kids,
I got a job, I got a second job. I
don't have time for this. But it could be something
as simple as paying attention to the local news from

(50:37):
multiple sources right just staying up to date on what
is happening in some of the biggest stories in our area.
And that's what I try to do on the show.
I try to make it easy for you guys to
stay informed. Obviously, I'm going to give you my opinion too,
but I always link to the underlying news stories. So
if you don't want my opinion, you can go to
the blog and just skip to the news stories. But

(50:58):
it is just uh yeah, yeah. In any case, I've
got a ton of you weighing in right now on
the debate last night, and some of these comments are
really really good. I want to answer this one right
away because I heard the same thing Mandy did I
really hear Trump say last night about Harris? He said,
she puts out after it was she brought up the charges. No,

(51:22):
it was that's what I thought too. But what he
said was, she says she's not black. She put that out.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
He was completing a thought. Yeah, and it did not connect, right.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
No, you gotta do the same thing. And I was like,
I know he didn't just do that.

Speaker 5 (51:37):
Yeah, you gotta give credit. That's not what he said.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
That is all what he said. I went back and
listened to it like fifty times been Albright says, he's
still her. Here's it the first.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
Way he wanted to initially make it seem like, hey,
mentioning this point started to go on, but then you
wanted to go back to mentioning, Hey she put that out,
that out yeat And I did not connect right.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
I heard it too text her, But I did go
back and re listen, and he is saying she put
that out or put out as she put out is
what he says. Yea as sunted like, and she put
out it was as she put out. Correct, that was
the actual words. But yeah, I was horrified, genuinely horrified.
I can't watch it anymore. This I can't, okay, So

(52:16):
we're gonna come back in just a few minutes. We're
gonna get comments about the debate. I had comments at
the beginning of the show. They were not kind to anyone,
including America. You know, we get the government we deserve, right,
and this sure does not say a lot about us
right now that these are our choices. So if you
want to text five six six nine, oh, I'm going

(52:38):
to open up the bigger window. That's right. I am
opening up the bigger window right now and making it happen.
We'll be right back with your comments. I thought i'd
let you guys wait in on the debate last night,
so I have let's see, let me upload right now,
and then I am going to scroll all the way

(52:58):
down to the bottom because we've been getting these text
messages for a lot. And uh, let's see here, that's
the weather Wednesday question love weather Wednesday? Okay? And then
I said, how did you feel about last night's debate?
And I'm just gonna read these Mandy, why the blank

(53:20):
is he such a petulant child who couldn't resist the bait?
And the Taylor Swift endorsement is the nail in the coffin.
Never underestimate the ignorance of the American public. PS. I'm
so grateful that I found your program on iHeart you
bright in my day. You're welcome text from wherever you
are in the eight one six find out where eight
one six area code is eight one six eight one six.

(53:42):
I don't know where that is. Uh, Mandy, we are
doomed with Harris. No, let me address the Taylor Swift
Kansas City. All right, welcome, love your barbecue. Anyway. I
do want to say this about the Taylor Swift endorsement.
I don't think Taylor Swift is going to get people
to who we're going to vote for Trump to vote
for Kamala Harris. But I do think that she could

(54:08):
inspire otherwise ignorant young women. And there are millions upon
millions upon millions of young women, not all ignorant, to
be clear, that are huge fans of hers. Her Instagram
following is eighty seven million people. So if she inspires
that group, which traditionally does not come out to vote

(54:30):
as as reliably as older demographics, if she inspires them
in a swing state to register and to vote, then
that could be a deciding factor I do want to
point out she endorsed Joe Biden back in twenty twenty,
so this is not the first time she's dipped her
toe into the political system. Is it like the end

(54:53):
all be all?

Speaker 9 (54:54):
No?

Speaker 3 (54:54):
But could it be a difference maker?

Speaker 10 (54:55):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (54:57):
How about that? Mandy? Painful to watch. These are all
all we have for president, please, y'all. That has been
the thing that has resonated in my mind since last night.
We have over three hundred and thirty million people in
this country. Well, if you add in the illegal immigrants,
three hundred and forty million people in this country, and

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you're telling me this is the best that we've got.
This is it? This is where we are creat Mandy.
Trump did not do well. Having said that the topics
were against him, the moderators were against him, all of
the pushback and follow up was against him. Kamala lied
so many times and was never asked to follow up.
He was on defense because it was designed that way.

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This is a one hundred. There's no lies in this
text message, not one. But what you forgot to put
out here is that everything that he could could control,
he didn't. He took the bank on every single ass
nine insult that Kamala Harris bare. Now, this was the

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genius of the debate prep that happened for Kamala Harris.
She didn't attack Donald Trump. She hid a subtle insult
in a longer answer about policy, so it never seemed
like she was fully on the attack. And then instead
of coming at her for whatever crap she just said
about the policy, he immediately hones in on the one
asinine thing that she said about him that no one

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else cares about. It was just she played him like
a fiddle because she and the Democratic people who helped
her get ready for this debate know that he is
a narcissist. They know that his ego is often bigger
than his brain. And boy, that was on display last night.

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Does anybody in my listening audience give a rats ass
if a single person leaves a Donald Trump rally early? Anyone?
Anyone at all? Anyone? No, no, you know the only person?
Donald Trump. Oh so frustrating, Mandy. He missed his opening
about women's bodies and should have come back hard with
the women who were raped and murdered by illegals? Did

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they want that done to their bodies? And say their names? Y'all?
I have a million of these things of what Donald
Trump should have done when he should have done it.
So I don't want to turn this into that. Let's
just say he missed opportunity after opportunity after opportunity talking
about how his rallies are not boring. Mandy Harris did

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nothing but try to buy boats with tax credits with
Marxist ideology. Correct, Mandy, nobody cares about him talking about
somebody eating cats. He goes off the rails too much,
even though we know he's the one that needs to
take care of this country. Correct, Mandy. Did you like
the part where he told Kamala that he was talking
after she interrupted him. I actually did. I loved it,
you know why, because then she couldn't do it, and

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she didn't get her sassy black woman moment that she
was counting on for the internet to spread all over
the country. If it turns out, she didn't need it,
because she beat him fair and square, even with ABC
literally fighting on her team. They were basically her cornermen. Right,
ab seated such a bad job last night, such a biased,
one sided, partisan, hacked job. But he had to have

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known it was gonna be that way going in and
if he can't handle that, does he really need to
be president? Just like if Kamala Harris can't handle a
sit down interview with a possibly less than slavishly devoted interviewer,
should she be president? The answer is no, Mandy, he
screwed the pooch, Yes he did, Mandy too. Bullie speak

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to the issues, not attacking each other. Mandy, I was
surprised he didn't work on how long she's been covering
up for mentals Biden's mental lack of acuity?

Speaker 5 (58:41):
Y'all.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
There was a million things like that he could have
hit her on and didn't because, obviously, even though Kamala
Harris was literally on the debate stage because the Democratic
Party stabbed him in the back like Brutus and Julius
Caesar and ditched him because he was clearly mentally addled
in the last debay, ABC News could not find one

(59:02):
single moment to ask that question, how long did you
know he was not well? And why didn't you tell
the American people? Can you imagine? Wouldn't it have been
nice to have that question answered? But instead, again the
questions were, Miss Harris, why is Donald Trump bad? Donald Trump?
Why are you bad? Miss Harris just said you were bad.
Would you like to respond, Geez Louise, it was just awful, awful? Anyway, Mandy,

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do you think there will be a second debate?

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Or en?

Speaker 3 (59:33):
Did Trump learn anything?

Speaker 9 (59:34):
You know?

Speaker 3 (59:34):
I'm seeing a lot of pundits today saying, you know,
both sides have reason to want another debate. If I
am either side, I say no more. I'm done. I'm
not doing it. Ay run see what the overnight ratings were.
It should be out by now, Mandy, debate last night
was hard to stomach. How was your popcorn? It was delicious,
and I mean delicious, love popcorn. Popcorn. You make popcorn,

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you make a little oil on it, you give it
a little of the of the nutritional yeast to give
it a little protein. Then you got protein, fat, and fiber,
and we all know. Michelle Zelner says that's important. What
was the viewership last night?

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
Host network earning eighteen million, so fifty seven point four
million audiences tuned in for the debate eighteen point three
million for the host network. NBC had nine million, Fox
News eight MSNBC six million, so in total, looks like
early estimates for ABC fifty seven million audiences tuned in.

Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
For the debate.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
I don't know if that's as high. I think Biden
Trump was like sixty million, roughly somewhere around there. So
I don't see what the Biden Trump debate ratings were, Mandy.
The Har's campaign did their research and hit most of
Trump's trigger points. Trump fell for all of them. No
real substance from either side. I want my two hours back, correct.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
Bill Hollywood Reporter articles saying that is six two point
five million more than those who tuned in for the
June twenty seven time between Trump and Biden.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
Okay, so there you go, Mandy. So we're gonna let
Kamala on the basis of the fact that she what, well,
here's the thing, and this is the sad part. Now
it turns into voter turnout because young people are digging
her vibe right, like, oh my god, she's just got
such a cool vibe. She's not a hundred, she's not ancient.
She's throw a boomer, y'all, late boomer, but a boomer, Mandy.

(01:01:30):
Since we require a minimum age thirty five to run
for president, do you think we should have a maximum
age where a person cannot run for president. Jeff from Aurora. Know,
how about we convince the electorate that we should have
just you know, younger people. How about that instead? How
about that Mandy Trump is the only person in the
world that can be right about everything and look like

(01:01:51):
an idiot. Correct more of your comments After this one thing,
I will say. There are only a couple texters that
are text today with the I don't know why you
guys are on the side of Kamala Harris by saying this,
I think even Trump supports y'all. I'm still voting for Trump.

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To be clear, I think last night was an unmitigated
disaster and everything I hate about Donald Trump, but I'm
still voting for him because the alternative is Kamala Harris
for goodness sakes. The policies, well, we don't really know
what the policies are. There hasn't been a lot on
that seems to be Joe Biden's policies, and then some
Trump policies just you know, thrown into a missmasher. Anyway, Mandy,

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I want to be able to tell people who complain
about the economy to think about voting for Trump, but
I can't when he does his ranting speechifying that's not
going to convince them you are correct, Mandy. Cheaters are
not winners. How is anyone supposed to do a good
job against people that will allow his opponent to why
about everything? Then they tried to fact check Trump about

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the abortion stuff, which they completely lied about. I really
wish America, including all of you in the media, could
be a lot smarter and see through all this fake crap.
Except we did. We did. I've pointed out multiple times
on the program. They only fact checked Donald Trump. ABC
News was squarely in the bag for Kamala Harris and

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did their dead level best. What does that say about
what ABC News thought about Kamala Harris before this debate
that they prepared fact checks on things they thought Donald
Trump might say, but they didn't prepare any fact checks
on the stuff she might lie about. Uh huh, that's
just it. I feel sorry for you, sir, I do,
I really do. The only Trump Wait, the only thing

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Trump really messed up was the dog eating No. Trump
messed up a lot of stuff. He messed up a
lot of missed opportunities. He allowed himself to be sidetracked
with stupid, nonsensical insults that he felt the need to
respond to instead of attacking her on all of her
flip flops, constantly, on the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which
she said she feels good about, and all the other
things you could have attacked her on. That's not the

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only thing he got wrong. I don't get whether the
moderators this is another text bother with any questions. They
should just say you have two minutes to say your
first rehearsed talking point and go. They never answer what
they're asked anyway. And again, the only person they asked
a follow up question about that was Donald Trump. Kamala
Harris never got a hey, why didn't you answer the question?

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
Question?

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Mandy? I would love to hear Trump call out Kamala
for calling Joe Biden a racist, and when asked about
that after accepting the VP nomination, she laughed it off
and said it was a debate. She says anything she
has to in a debate or a campaign. Correct, Mandy, Maga, moron,
Mandy ABC gave senile Trump more to time to talk
his hate lies and BS can believe you still support

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that idiot. Neither can I, Sir or madam, Neither can I.
But here we are because the other candidate is that
much worse Mandy debate was underwhelming. Kamala came out swinging
expected but never seemed to answer a direct question with
a direct answer, at least not at the start. DJT

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should have elder accountable to answer, especially since ABC did not.
DJT clearly missed several opportunities to speak from facts, proposed plans,
and flip the script on Kamala, and yet when asked
about replacing Obamacare with something else, he said, I have
a concept? What what? So many, so many missed opportunities,

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Sean says Mandy. I think Kamala Harris's nonverbal communication last
night said way more than Trump could say. I actually
think that's a negative. People don't like that because people
that have self esteem issues usually don't like to feel
like they're having that directed at them. And by the way,
when I say self esteem issues, that's not me making

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some sweeping negative generalization, but people who struggle with their
self esteem often perceive people that are making faces of
other people negatively because they have felt those at them.
I ignore them. If somebody makes face, I mean, you
guys should see some of the faces that a rod makes.
It me every single day somebody needs to call HR.
I mean, it's not going to be me because I

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don't have the number. I have to get it from
a Rod. We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
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Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. In this hour, we are going to
talk with a wonderful person from the Colorado Veterans Project.
We're going to talk about a golf tournament doing something
good to help veterans here in Colorado. But in the meantime,
we must continue our conversation about last night's debate. And
I got a really good email that I'm gonna share

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with you, and I hope it's okay that I'm sharing
it because I didn't ask the guy who sent it
to me, but he just sent it, so maybe he's listening. Mandy.
I'm not as mad at Trump as I am mad
at the Republican Party for once again shooting themselves in
the foot. Although I agree on many of his policies,
we all know he's an egomaniac with a side of
New York attitude, which is grating on the nerves. During

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the primaries, we had better candidates that would have taken
this party in a new direction, DeSantis, Bergham and my
favorite Haley, But no, this party and their cult like
obsession to this guy is maddening, Just like the Red
wave that never materialized due to their stance on an
issue that wasn't the most important at the time, abortion,

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The Democrats played them like fiddles. Yet again, the Republican
Party got behind a guy that was played like a
banjo last night, and now we are possibly left holding
the empty red bag of disappointment yet again. That from
Breck down in Texas, and that's exactly how I feel.

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I'm driving to work earlier. I'd started thinking about it
this morning because I went back and I listened to
the sound bite Ben Albright now both heard as President
Trump saying she put out but that's not what he said.
I misheard it. But I went back and I was
listening to that. Then I was looking at other snippets
of the debate, and I just got super mad. I

(01:08:37):
got mad, and all the Republicans who think that Donald
Trump was the guy in this election cycle and refused
to even look at another candidate. And I'm out at
the Democratic Party for shoving this woman onto us that
no one voted for who now by the way I mean,
I would say odds are probably even right now on
who's gonna win this. It's really gonna matter who shows

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up at the polls otherwise. I think this is a
dead heat. And I believe so strongly that the United
States and the world cannot handle another four years of
this kind of leadership that we've seen under Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris. I just don't think we can handle it. Anyway.

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
I want to go.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Back to your text messages because some of them are
really great. Hi, Mandy, since you were talking about the
debate last night, didn't the first debate have CNN moderators?
If that's the case, wouldn't it been fair for Fox
News to moderate this debate? Thanks from Tim.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
Tim.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
That's a great question. But the Democrats refuse to go
onto Fox News and do a debate, and the Republicans
keep capitulating next year it needs to go like this. Okay,
We're going to agree to the debate on Fox News first,
and then we will agree to a second debate on
another network. And by the way CNN looked practically, they

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looked like Walter freaking cronkite Compared to what happened last night,
it was ridiculous. Kamala's strategy says this texter seemed to
be akin to rope adope and Trump chose to be
a dope. Great point. This textter says, Mandy, I am
glad my granddaughters, who like Swift, are too young to vote.
Wish her taxes would increase, but bet her lawyers will

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see they don't. Now I actually made this comment as well.
Taylor Swift is gonna be shocked when she finds out
that she is part of the evil rich that Kamala
Harris says don't pay their fair share. She is gonna
be gobsmacked. She's barely gonna It's gonna shock her to
find out that they think she doesn't pay her fair share.

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And they're coming for another clip of all of her
unearned assets. They're gonna tax all of her unearned stuff.
Sure can't wait. But hey, you know what, she got
to take a shot at Jade Vance in her endorsement.
So good on Taylor, Good on Taylor. Uh Mandy, I

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understand your concern for President Biden in the way the
Democratic Party treated him. Bless your heart, He'll be okay.
I don't really think he's gonna be okay, because I
don't think he's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
I wouldn't be shocked if Joe Biden did not pass
away within two years of leading office. I wouldn't be
surprised at all.

Speaker 5 (01:11:30):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:11:31):
Rude people calling names, says this texter again, I say,
read for yourselves drives me crazy. When you can tell
whose skipt history class, you do a great job.

Speaker 4 (01:11:40):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
I appreciate that from a person who loves the exclamation
point as much as I do, and I do. How
many times do you think Harris lied? That's funny you
should ask that, because just a moment ago I retweeted
my friend Michael Brown, who was retweeting an article by
Mark Levin about just that very thing. How many times

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did Kamala Harris lie? And now I can't find it
on my timeline? Hang on one second, we're moving here,
all right. Mark Levin fact checked Kamala Harris since ABC
News was not at all interested in fact checking Kamala Harris.
And here are the twenty five lies, she told, I'll
do them speedily, quickly. Number one middle class kid. That's

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not true. Her father was a professor at Stanford. Her
mother was a biomedical scientist at UC Berkeley. Trump's tax cuts,
Harris falsely insinuated that the tax cuts disproportionately benefited billionaires
and corporations. But that, of course is not true either.

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Hang on, I got a hairball. I had to have a
little simple water. Trump's sales tax, she called. She claimed
Trump will implement a sales tax. That's not remotely true.
January sixth was, she said, the worst attack on her
democracy since the Civil War, But it wasn't. Project twenty
twenty five. Harris claim Trump will implement twenty twenty five

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if elected. Of course, he said, over and over and
over and over again, over and over and over again.
When Harris asked if she supports any restrictions on abortion,
she dodged the questions, saying she absolutely supports reinstating the
protections of Roe v. Wade, so she wants no restriction.
She wants what we have in here in Colorado, which

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is you can have an abortion by choice up until
the moment of birth. You can do that here in Colorado.
Just try me. All of you are going to text
me and say no, you can't. Yes, you can find
the law that says otherwise, And if you can, I
will give you fifty bucks. I will pay you cash
money if you show me the Colorado statute that puts

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any limits on abortion here in Colorado, pro Lifelow criminalized
miscarriage is an ectopic pregnancies. That is not right. She
mischaracterized Trump's abortion stance. She lined that nine month abortions
don't exist. And I actually answered this to a listener
who asked this question today. There is an abortion clinic
in Boulder, Colorado, that has third trimester pregnancies listed on

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its website, and in the description it says people often
come to us to end a pregnancy for medical reasons.
That word often is extremely key because it doesn't mean always,
which means some people are seeking out late term abortions
because they don't want to have a baby. But go ahead,

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if you want to find this statute that says otherwise,
please send it to me. I'll give you fifty bucks.
Border Bill. Harris claimed that Trump killed the border Bill.
That's not at all what happened. Sco is is immunity ruling.
Harris mischaracterized the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity the
fracking band calumn claim. She made it very clear in

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twenty twenty that she would not manfracking, but yet she's
she's no, she didn't. She's trying to have it both ways.
We'll be right back. I'm not going to read the
rest of these. I'll put it on the blog tomorrow.
But yeah, there was a lot of lies, and I
mean a lot of lies. But hey, what are you
gonna do? It's politics, right, am I right, We'll be
right back. Here's the problem after what we just lived

(01:15:22):
through with the Aurora gang gas lighting situation. And by
the way, I was not surprised, but I was disheartened
to find out or hear Aurora name checked in that way,
although that's exactly what the mayor of Aurora is worried about.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
That's why that I think everything was downplayed in Aurora
because nobody wanted that Aurora to have that reputation and
then it gets named check last night in the presidential debate,
which was not good. But Ross and I were talking
about this earlier and I said, you know, here's the thing.
I don't know Danielle Dorinsky personally, like we don't hang out,
but the exchanges that I have with her, I genuinely

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like her. And I said it the other day. I
think everybody, even the people that I disagree with politically
on the Aurora City Council, these people love Aurora right.
They want it to succeed, and so I know the
mayor wants it to succeed, and there's no doubt Danielle
Drensky wants it to succeed. And what I'm wondering about
the entire story, now that it's almost been said and done,
is this, why didn't someone just say to Danielle Drinsky,

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we're aware of the problem. Here are the things that
we're doing to handle it, instead of telling her that
it was all in her imagination. Because at least the
alarm has been sounded and now this situation is being
dealt with in a very public way. That certainly would
dissuade the gangs from going back to these same complexes.
But it doesn't mean that we don't have Venezuelan gangs

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and Aurora that need to be dealt with and need
to be dealt with pretty harshly within the confines of law,
of course, you know, it's one of those things that
just it. This is the kind of stuff that makes
me nuts about government, is that someone made a decision,
a risk assessment, and said the bad publicity that we
would get from this could be terrible, not thinking about

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the fact that it also gives them an opportunity to
make a big splash with some of these arrests that
they've been making and saying, look, we heard about these
gangs too, and we are taking care of it. That
sends a message of strength, not just to the rest
of the world in pr form, it also sends a
message of strength to the actual gang, where maybe they
would be convinced to move back to Denver where no

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one's going to arrest them for anything, and if they
do get arrested, they'll be out in five minutes. So
that whole situation. I've got so much stuff on the
blog today it's not even funny. I mean, so much
stuff on the blog today. I want to get this
story out. The guy who's shot at a Colorado State
Patrol officer and was subsequently shot and killed. His identity

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has been released. He is not an illegal immigrant, We
have no information to indicate that he would be part
of a Venezuelan gang as of right now. He seems
to be a career criminal born in California who's been
in Colorado and has committed many crimes and apparently had
a death wish cause. Well, we're granted, but a lot

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of people have been saying it was an illegal immigrant,
it was a gang member, and I wanted to be clear,
to clear the record and get that out on the
show today. So Deshaun Watson, what's up with this dude?
A rod? He got sued again again. Now it could
be a lawyer getting rich off to Shaun Watson's settlements,

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but Deshaun Watson already settled with twenty three out of
twenty four women who accused him of sexual assault or
harassment due to some Any woman that goes to give
this guy a massage is just stupid at this point,
just dumb. And then another pop culture reference that I
want to get in here real quick. Anybody else see

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the Dave Grol message yesterday, former member of Nirvana, founder
of the Foo Fighters. Dudes like, oh hey, yeah, so
I just had a baby with a woman who's not
my wife and we're trying to I'm trying to rebuild
the trust in love with my wife and my family,
who I love very much. But I'm gonna be a
good dad to this new little girl. And oh, by

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the way, leave us alone for the kid's sake. Bold choice,
Dave Grol. Now, what's odd is that among my female
friends that we were talking about this yesterday, we were
all like, God, you know, he seems like such a
nice guy. Well, his first wife left him because he
cheated on her. And not to say that it's going

(01:19:46):
to happen again, but this is a perfect example of
Trump's adage that when you're rich and famous, women just
let you grab him by the what. You know what
I'm saying, he's not wrong, because when you're a rock star,
there's always some willing to bang you. Doesn't care about
your wife and your children. There you go. When we

(01:20:06):
get back, we're going to talk about something completely different.
There's a golf tournament coming up to support a great cause.
We're doing that next. I'm pleased. It's much to be
joined with the executive director of Oh my gosh, I
almost said the wrong thing Colorado Veterans Project, Brandy Moriani
and welcome back to the show.

Speaker 9 (01:20:24):
Oh thanks Mandy, Thanks thanks for having us on, and
thanks for all your supportive veterans as well. Well.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
Well, I'm married to one and I'm a mom of one,
so this is definitely a near and dear to my
heart's situation. Tell me listeners a little bit about the
Colorado Veterans Project. What do you guys do?

Speaker 9 (01:20:40):
Sure, we are a nonprofit. We've been in the state
of Colorado for about ten years. Our main primary focus
is helping veterans transition out of the military and kind
of find their next mission.

Speaker 8 (01:20:52):
You know, what do they want to do next? Make
some of those connections.

Speaker 9 (01:20:55):
Provide some training, we give scholarships, and we support other
veteran run organizations that also help with that mission.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
So what are we doing to raise a little money
and have a little fun coming up here in what
about a week?

Speaker 9 (01:21:09):
Yes, So, what I wanted to share with your audience
is some information about our let Freedom and Swing Golf Government.
It is next week, Thursday, September nineteenth. It's at the
Ridge at Castle Pines North and Castle Pines, which is
a beautiful, beautiful course and you know it's all the
proceeds will go towards our mission that I mentioned before

(01:21:31):
in regards to betterm transitions.

Speaker 8 (01:21:33):
We host a couple events a year. This one is
a big fundraiser for us.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
So you have a couple of sponsorships available. I was
looking at the whole registration thing. You've got some the
big sponsorships are sold out, which is great for you guys.
But there are whole sponsorships, there are lunch sponsors, There's
various sponsorships that if you would like to get together
with some friends or maybe have your company sponsor a
whole or something, there are opportunities to do that, or

(01:22:00):
you can just come and play. What does a foursome
cost for this?

Speaker 9 (01:22:06):
A foursome is a little over eight hundred dollars, so
it's actually pretty reasonable to go out and play at
the ridge.

Speaker 8 (01:22:12):
It's quite a fun event.

Speaker 9 (01:22:14):
We've got a lot of competitions, longest drive, We've got
some beat the pro kind of competitions. So it's just
going to be a lot of fun out there. And
it's a beautiful course as well.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
So now, Brandy, I was never in the military, but
my husband was, and after spending some time with him
and his colleagues that he served with, at various functions.
They're the most mouthy, competitive group of people I've ever
met in my entire life. Is this tournament inhabited by
similar people? Because I enjoy that, I'm not gonna lie.

(01:22:47):
I mean, there's a lot of competitiveness among the military branches.
Do we see this at this golf tournament.

Speaker 9 (01:22:54):
Well, you definitely see it in the military, and you
definitely see it on the golf course.

Speaker 8 (01:22:59):
So there'll be some competitions.

Speaker 9 (01:23:01):
We do have some prizes for first place winners, and
like I said, there's longest drive, there's closest to the pin.
There's quite a few different opportunities for those who are
very competitive.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
Brandy Morinian with Colorado Veterans Project is my guest, how
when do people need to sign up by? Because it
is a week from tomorrow, so obviously you guys have
a drop dead hit date here coming up pretty quick.

Speaker 9 (01:23:25):
We do, I would say probably by Monday air Tuesday
next week at the latest. But you can go to
Colorado Veterans Project dot org go to our events tab
and you'll see our golf tournament there and just click
through some of those and you can. If you can't play,
there's opportunities as you mentioned, to be a sponsor or

(01:23:45):
just donate. We've had some of those opportunities come through
as well.

Speaker 5 (01:23:49):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:23:49):
Get that. I also put a link to it on
the blog today, so if you can't remember that, you
can go to mandy'sblog dot com and click right over.
Brandy Marini and I hope that you guys have beautiful weather.
First of all, I think you should have beautiful weather.
And I hope you raise a ton of money for
the Colorado Veterans Project and the veterans who will be
helped by that.

Speaker 8 (01:24:07):
Oh, thank you so much, Mandy, thanks so much for
having us on.

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
All right, thank you. That is Brandy Morinian with the
Colorado Veterans Project. They do really, really, really good work
over there. You know what I thought was interesting last
night talking about more missed opportunities for Donald Trump. Last night,
when Kamala here is brought up the whole he doesn't
respect the troops and the fact that Donald Trump tried

(01:24:30):
to sell a civilian medal as the actual highest honor.
I found that deeply offensive, and so Kamala hit him
on that last night. And the easiest way to respond
is just by saying, look, lady, deeds not words. How
many times have you met with the families of the
soldiers who were murdered at Abbygate in Afghanistan? How many

(01:24:53):
times you show respect by listening to people's stories and
listening to their families and giving them comfort. But he didn't. Yet,
another missed opportunity. In a lot of those text messages
that I didn't read, a lot of them started with
Trump should have or Trump should have said this. And
that's why I was like, I can't because we can't

(01:25:15):
go back and redo. We can't go back and make
him listen to people trying to help him with debate
prep because obviously that was so undisciplined. What happened last night.
He didn't listen to anybody. Now. I have a couple
of stories on the blog that I want to point
out really quickly. One of them is a great column, great, great, great, great,
great column about why the Western world must care about

(01:25:41):
Israel winning this war and it has very little to
do with Israel itself and far more to do with civilization.
And I know that sounds like, oh, that's kind it.
You know, she's trying to scare it. No, I believe

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that Western civilization is a superior culture to what they
have in the Middle East. I'm very comfortable saying that.
I believe that living in a free society where people
are allowed to make their own choices, where they have
to live with their own consequences, is a superior way
to live than to live under the kind of law
that they have in Iran or that they have in Afghanistan,

(01:26:25):
where women are now not allowed to be heard in
public lest a men be driven into sexual insanity by
her voice. That's not exactly what it said, but that's
what it meant. I think we are culturally a better civilization.
And this column makes the point that it is Israel

(01:26:48):
that is the sole backstop in the Eastern Mediterranean to
keep it from all following under Islamic rule. Israel is
the backstop for the rest of us. The Muslim Brotherhood,
which ruled Egypt for about a year, remains the strongest
political force in the country. Under certain circumstances, they absolutely

(01:27:11):
could regain power. To Israel's north. You've got Lebanon where Hesbelah,
a Sheeite proxy of Iran, is the true ruler. Israel
is trying to defeat Iran's main arm in the region. Syria,
of course, is attached to Lebanon, and Israel is fighting
the Iranian presidents there as well. It's a great column,

(01:27:32):
and if you have friends or family, like why are
we even worried about what's going on in Ukraine or Israel,
I'd love for you to share this article read it yourself,
because it clarifies why the United States of America and
NATO and every other country that lives under Western civilization's
rules has to fight back and prevent Iran from taking over.

Speaker 9 (01:27:55):
It.

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
It seems absolutely unfathoma to me, you guys, that was
the first time I said the word unfathomable correctly on
the first take in a long time. Thank you. Try
the buffet. I'll be here all week.

Speaker 4 (01:28:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
I'm having to give myself a little bow right now.
It seems unfathomable that in a society that we live.
I know, I'm three for three right now. I'm kind
of excited. Thank you, Thank you. Try it. It's a
hard word to say anyway, unfathomable. There's a lot of
stuff going on in that word in your mouth. There's
a lot going on in there anyway, But it seems

(01:28:31):
unfathomable that in a modern society, you can have governments
preventing women from going to school, preventing women from being
able to show their faces in society, and that there
are nations where gay people are not accepted, They're murdered
for their gayness, their family members can be killed because

(01:28:55):
they are homosexual. And yet that is the civilization that
Israel is fighting against. So yeah, it's a great column.
It's on the blog today. You gotta see it. And
can we just have one minute? I got like five
minutes left, and I have to talk about this guy
who says he loves to book the worst seat on
the plane a rod. What is the worst seat on

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the plane.

Speaker 5 (01:29:17):
Like between like aisle window.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
It's a very specific worst seat on the plane.

Speaker 5 (01:29:24):
Uh, the one of the very front that has no
space for you to put the bag under.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
No, because that if you're unless you're a larger person,
the tray table has to come out of the armrest.
You got more leg room at the bulkhead. No, the
worst seats are on the back of the airplane, last row,
and there suck because they don't recline most of the
time and they're right by the crapper. So if you're
in a long flight. My long flight, I mean anything
over two hours. And by the way, I just want

(01:29:48):
to let you know if you're sensitive to poop smells
on airplanes, here's a little fun fact. If you take
the earliest flight of the day, that crapper is going
to get a workout like you cannot believe. And if
you see dude walking in there with a newspaper under
his arm, you do not even want to be in
the vicinity after that thing happens. You just don't one thing.

(01:30:08):
I when I was a flight attendant back in nineteen
ninety one, so this was like nineteen ninety three, I'd
been flying for a couple of years. We have one
of those big raw rob meetings, you know, where they're
like and they're like, hey, we want great ideas on
how to make our airplanes and our airlines better, Like
they were big on that at Delta. They're like, oh, okay,
tell us what you really think. So I suggested, I said,

(01:30:29):
can we work on some better solution on how to
get the stink out of airplane bathrooms during the flight,
Like can we get some kind of external venting? And
the people looked at me like I was insane. The executives,
all of the flight attendants were like, yes, yes, make
that happen, because you know what's on the other side

(01:30:50):
of the wall from the crapper, the jump seats for
the flight attendant. Oh, there have been times a rod,
there have been times where I wanted to walk up
to a pass and say, what exactly did you eat
to make that happen? What just went on in there?

Speaker 5 (01:31:06):
Cauliflower rice always.

Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
Well, that's but that's a very distinct kind of you know,
certain foods elicit certain responses from our body beast food
in general. Yeah, you know what gets me is soy products. Wow, wow,
soy is not not my friend in that respect.

Speaker 5 (01:31:25):
You gotta say, yo, soy stinky, Yo.

Speaker 3 (01:31:28):
Soy stinky? What does that mean?

Speaker 5 (01:31:30):
I am?

Speaker 3 (01:31:30):
What am I saying? I know, I know I'm not
saying that because I walk away, So I'm not stinkyme
on soy soy. Yeah, yeah, I'm not doing that. But
this guy books the last row windows seat, so he's
boxed in, Like, right, I like the window seat because
I actually look out the window, right, I did too,
But I've been coming around on the aisle seat. The

(01:31:51):
aisle seat's definitely more roomy on a full flight, I
prefer the if it's not meat Chuck and Q. If
it's meat chuck and Q, q's in the middle. And
I always tell or as soon as you buy your
own ticket, you can sit wherever you want, so ques
in the middle. And if it's that, I will sit
at the window, and I enjoy it because I look
out the window. But if it's just me and Chuck
and there's a chance that some stranger could be in
that center seat, then I am sitting across the aisle

(01:32:14):
from him, you know what I mean. Like, that's how
I'm doing it. So, yeah, this guy's crazy. I mean,
why in the world he said he doesn't like people
kicking his seat. Y'all, let me just tell you how
to handle someone kicking your seat. You get around, you
turn around. You gotta look really serious. You can't look nice.
You gotta look at whoever's behind you and say, hey,

(01:32:34):
your child is kicking my seat and it's kind of
driving me crazy. Could you stop that? That's the first
time serious face, right, You got to look like you
mean business the second time it happens.

Speaker 5 (01:32:47):
Attendant, you do not engage.

Speaker 3 (01:32:48):
No, just as a passenger, I do this all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:32:51):
I'm saying second time around you.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
No, second time, you don't address the parents. You look
at the kid and go stop kicking my seat, because
you already gave the parent it's time to fix it.
And let me tell you that, when a stranger looks
at a little kid with that look at my face,
do I look serious face? You know the face, the
face that says I am serious, And you look at

(01:33:13):
a little kid and go stop kicking my seat, And
they know you already talk to their parents. Now they're like,
oh crap, now they're talking to me. It works, It
is not I don't care. They should have controlled their kid.
I have been flying with my daughter since she was
two months old. She has been on airplanes at every
single stage of life. And do you know how many

(01:33:35):
times I let her kick the seat in front of her?
That would be a donut, Anthony, a zero zilch na never.
It will never happen. It's just rude to not pay
attention to your kids and let him kick the seat.
And what do you do when it kicks the back
of your seat? Then been all right? Joining us where
of the day. If they're lucky, they get the glare

(01:33:57):
I don't even serve with the glaire. I started right away,
serious face, like, hey, can you get your kid to
stop kicking my seat?

Speaker 11 (01:34:02):
I did the slow turnaround like the with the incredulous
look on my face, like one rock eyebrow.

Speaker 5 (01:34:10):
I want to play this game. We could play this game.
I'm going to put the seats so far back in
your lap.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
Correct. Yeah, but I don't think there's anything wrong with
telling someone to control their child.

Speaker 5 (01:34:19):
Yeah, I can't say what I would normally say.

Speaker 3 (01:34:21):
You'd be shocked, you guys, maybe not. You would be
shocked at what people let their children do on airplanes.
As a former flight attendant, I had a family go
to get off of an airplane and their child had
put stickers on the window, on the tray table seat
on and there's cheerios all over the floor. And I
stopped the family and said, go back and take the

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stickers off, and they did.

Speaker 5 (01:34:44):
I came My dad worked for American Airlines. I came
up respecting that.

Speaker 11 (01:34:48):
Now he wasn't on the crew service, but you know, still,
I came up respecting the airlines.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
So you had to wear a suit when you flew
and stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, we had to wear a tie.

Speaker 3 (01:34:56):
I don't think they do that anymore. I don't think
they have to dress up in it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:00):
A matter of fact, most of the time. It's so
funny now because I fly now, I fly comfortable. You know.

Speaker 11 (01:35:05):
I always like I were like a tracksuit or something,
and I used to be suit when I flew.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
Guy, Yeah, well, I have I have specific pants that
are called travel pants, and they are they got that.
They're like swishy pants when you walk. But anything else
spills in my spill in my lap, just like rolls.

Speaker 11 (01:35:22):
Right off, I have a I have an all white tracksuit.

Speaker 3 (01:35:26):
You fly all white? Are insane?

Speaker 5 (01:35:29):
Animal? You guys?

Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
Are you insane? Have you never experienced turbulence enough to
have your drink end up in your lap?

Speaker 11 (01:35:35):
I well, I know because I keep a hold of
my drink. All you do is keep a loose grip
on the drink. Episode turbulence won't listen, sir. We can
have this conversation again.

Speaker 5 (01:35:45):
If you know it's time, and now.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
It's time for the most exciting segment on the radio
of it's kind in the world. Day you did. I'm
proud of you, Ben.

Speaker 11 (01:35:56):
I got it wrong the last time. I'm proud of
such an ideo which one of these? Okay, so I
have to phrase use in the form of requestion.

Speaker 3 (01:36:01):
Yes, not yet, just for Jeopardy, just for Jeopardy, and
I can enjoy well review at that. We won't get
to that point. So what is our dad joke of
the day? Please? Ayron?

Speaker 5 (01:36:09):
What did the taxidermist do on his lunch break? Stuffed himself?

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
I don't know, but he was his face, yes, stuff
his face?

Speaker 5 (01:36:17):
All right, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:36:18):
I need the word of the day please.

Speaker 5 (01:36:20):
It is an adjective adjective.

Speaker 4 (01:36:22):
Guess what this means, ben, choca block one word spelt
like it sounds.

Speaker 3 (01:36:26):
Doesn't that mean like Gangbusters, like a Chaka block play
like it was a big time big deal.

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
No choco block, no negative, dang it Ben, any guests
choco block adjective.

Speaker 11 (01:36:36):
I've heard this used in conversation before, but I have
I have no idea like chocolate block full of you know,
like choco block full of something like it means like
you're like you have, like like the answer, like you
the answer you.

Speaker 5 (01:36:48):
Would think so both of you.

Speaker 6 (01:36:49):
But no.

Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
Something described as choco block is very full or tightly packed,
something that is full.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
Of information, like the answer like this show chlock with information.

Speaker 5 (01:36:59):
Somebody used that in a conversation. We want time.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
Wait, what is show? Is a shock of block show?
That's a shock of block show. We're gonna get in
there and have a brujaja next. That's what now? Okay,
today's tribut question. There's a type of unicycle called the
kangaroo unicycle. How did it get its name?

Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
I mean there has to be a secondary.

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
You've got a hopping that it has there a unit.

Speaker 4 (01:37:22):
Like connected with the main unicycle kangaroo. You know it's
made in Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:37:28):
Both cranks on a unicycle face the same direction. Successfully,
the rider must make a hopping motion with the legs,
evoking a kangaroo. That's got to be awkward, as you
know what that makes sense? I mean, well, now I
have to look up kangaroo unicycle. I got to see
what they say. This is why we do the show, Ben,

(01:37:50):
We learned things.

Speaker 5 (01:37:50):
Every day, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
What is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 4 (01:37:54):
What the blank? And no, I don't mean like a
curse word. Everything has something to do with the blank. Okay,
you'll catch on. Literally it's a bank draft that is signed.

Speaker 3 (01:38:03):
What's a blank?

Speaker 5 (01:38:04):
Check correct.

Speaker 4 (01:38:06):
Standard versions of this board game have two blank tiles
that can be mannybble correct it, bend the game as
we go. Uh. This phrase meaning to be failed by
your memory, probably comes from a lottery where losing tickets
had nothing written on them.

Speaker 5 (01:38:24):
In this instance, you would then blank a blank.

Speaker 3 (01:38:29):
You can't say blank.

Speaker 5 (01:38:32):
Category. I was gonna say Ben that way. Do I
get nicatives for this? Yes, he already says his name.
Now we'll get my past.

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
I'll give them pass. He's here.

Speaker 5 (01:38:40):
It's a phrase, you're failed by your memory.

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
I feel like Manny blank out no danke it?

Speaker 5 (01:38:47):
What is a draw blank?

Speaker 2 (01:38:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:38:51):
I think you're going blank slate there blank of blank.
That's funny.

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
By the way, A documentary about this game show hosted
by Gene Rayburn and later Alec Baldwin, is subtitled behind
the Blank.

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
Okay, Geene Rayburn? What did he host?

Speaker 10 (01:39:09):
What that?

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
Alec Baldwin? I had no idea what.

Speaker 5 (01:39:13):
I don't know what is match games?

Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
What I was gonna guess?

Speaker 5 (01:39:18):
But of course it was Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
Nast more fantastic. It is one to zip, but we
are blazing a trail zero. I thought what we I thought?
Blake came to be in the title.

Speaker 5 (01:39:27):
No, I just said it help yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
One zero, what's your me?

Speaker 5 (01:39:34):
John Milton used this unrhymed uh, well crudg. He had
your past say something because I was gonna say tople
rossa at this John Locke.

Speaker 4 (01:39:45):
No, uh, I'm gonna finish the clue that John Milton
used this unrhymed pentameter in Paradise loss.

Speaker 5 (01:39:53):
Right, I know the answer to this this?

Speaker 3 (01:39:56):
What say that again? What is I am at wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
Zero?

Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
Zero?

Speaker 9 (01:40:04):
Zero?

Speaker 10 (01:40:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:40:05):
What is blank?

Speaker 10 (01:40:06):
Verse?

Speaker 3 (01:40:07):
Blank?

Speaker 9 (01:40:07):
Verse?

Speaker 5 (01:40:08):
Then wait you win with zero?

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
Yes, win with your own then you really, John, I.

Speaker 11 (01:40:14):
Was going John Locke with blank slate and to the
rosso was like yeah, And I was like a blood death.

Speaker 3 (01:40:19):
That's when you try to anticipate the questions. That's the problem.
I was trying to because you kept getting in there
so fast, because I am I am a fast.

Speaker 4 (01:40:26):
One blood bath And in this context don't forget my
context of the use of the phrase blood death.

Speaker 5 (01:40:31):
Okay, and this was a blood bath. This, this specifically
was a blood bath. Yes, yes, it was. Don't use
that out of context.

Speaker 11 (01:40:38):
Later what the textas says American requires a colored shirt.
So I'm flew in America since my dad passed back
and like go three.

Speaker 5 (01:40:44):
So I wouldn't know that. But again I don't. I
don't fly like I used to.

Speaker 3 (01:40:47):
We used to dress up the flo when I was
a flight attenant and we flew you non red. We
had to wear like dress people in general.

Speaker 5 (01:40:54):
To wear right zero used to dress.

Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
Oh my gosh, I will never forget, and I'll make
this quick. I had a couple who when they got
married in like nineteen thirty eight, he promised to take
her on an airplane flight. They were celebrating their fiftieth
anniversary and he was paying off the debt and he
was wearing the fedora and she had all the gloves
in the dress. It was the best day we passed.

Speaker 5 (01:41:15):
Are we passed where the fedora is like uncool? Can
I become Bring it back back again?

Speaker 3 (01:41:18):
Bro, bring back hats. Make all these hats. Koe sports
are coming up next. They should all wear hats.