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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a very short edition of the show.
But don't you worry about a thing. I'm your host
for the next fifty two minutes. Mandy Connell joined, of course,
Well not of course, because we don't get grant very often,
but we love when we do. He is taking it
for he's handling things for A Rod who will be
back on Tuesday because he's working all weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So yeah, so yeah, we're down a.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Producer and that means these guys are going to be
working excessively for.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The foreseeable future.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, welcome to the club a Rod.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, exactly, exactly right.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
We have fifty now, we have fifty one minutes, and
I'm squandering it right now.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So let's do this really quickly.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
We're going to do the blog before we take our
break at twelve, and let's do this. Find the blog
at mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says
nine to twelve twenty four blog a short show today
and I don't know when it starts. Click on that
and here are the headlines you will find within.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Anyone's list in office Halpen, I reckon all with ships.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Today on the blog.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
If I'm reading this on the radio, I have a show.
Mike Kaufman and Danielle Dorinsky release a statement together. Who
enabled the migrant influx to Aurora?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Vice President Harris wasn't wearing earbuds. Lift is leaving the
docless scooter and ebait ebyte game in Denver. This clown
deserves a long jail sentence. You want to know why
developing anything in Denver is so burdensome. What do Colorados
care most about? Go see ami racist? When can we
expect our first freeze? High doses of adderall can lead
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to side cosis, belly fat and chronic pain are connected.
Orthan dog Jews are voting for Trump. Those are the
headlines on our tiny blog today atmandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Now there is.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
There are a couple of things on the blog today, Grant.
Did you see Matt Walsh's movie What Is a Woman?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Did you happen to see it?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
My god?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Okay, First of all, Matt Walsh a little bit of
Matt Walsh. Matt used to work for iHeartMedia in Lexington, Kentucky, Okay.
So he started as a blogger, then he got a
radio show, then he went to work with Daily Wire,
and now he is making some of the best documentaries
that are out there.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And What Is a Woman was his first.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Documentary, and I have to I would put it in
the category of mockumentary really, like, you know, because he's
essentially going in here with the the you know, under
the guise of finding out from diversity, equity and inclusion specialists,
the people who have been making their living off this,
and he goes in seriously like he's trying to learn
about it, and then and then mayhem ensues. And this one,
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Am I A Racist? Opens this weekend today, as a
matter of fact, and I would love to see this
be a smashing, huge success because it looks hysterical. Christian
Toto reviewed it and said it is the funniest comedy
all year and it's a documentary, So put those things together.
But that's something that I'm I'm planning on. So there's
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like two movies out right now that I want to see.
I want to see Reagan and I want to see this,
So we've turned the corner.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I'm actually watching the trailer right now. It looks pretty good.
It's very well done.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah. Well, and that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Here's Matt Walsh is just a blogger and now he's
making these really funny movies. But they make a really
important point, and that is ultimately the point of this
is to point out the absurdity of what these people
are doing and this kind of grift that has this
industry that has sprung up out of telling mostly white
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liberals or captive audiences that white people are the devil
and that we are inherently racist and there's nothing we
can do to fix it. And by the way, can
we get reparations, Well, there's nothing that we can do
to fix it. Reparations are off the table, right because
what's the point? But really really interesting, very very interesting.
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So I'm going to go see that hopefully this weekend.
And today on the blog, I've got a bunch of stuff,
and not the least of which is the story about
the joint statement released by Mike Coffin and Danielle Drinsky.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And that's important because Mike and Danielle have been on. Uh.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I'm not going to see the opposite sides because that
would not be fair. But they have they have been
inconsistent in their messaging about what's been going on in Aurora.
And I would point out that Mayor Mike Kaufman has
now moved far more to the d Daniel Drinsky camp
and vice versa. And this whole situation, I said it yesterday,
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This is a perfect example of what not to do
when you have crisis PR issues. And this is in
crisis public relations.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
As a whole field.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
If I'd known crisis public relations was a field, I
probably would have tried to go into it. I think
that would be incredible to try and come up with
the messaging.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And you see it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
All the time in politics. We talk about it on
the show, like that's terrible messaging. Who came up with that?
But crisis PR is when you have something arise and
then what do you do next.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You want to come out.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Of it the best possible case, giving the impression that
the problem has been solved and we're all moving forward
whatever the problem is.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And that's not what Aurora did, and now they're doing it.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
So you have Mike Kaufman and Danielle Jorensky putting out
a statement that says, look, there are buildings that have
been significantly affected, but this is not an all encumbencing
Aurora thing. And we were listed eight of the ten
people linked to the gang and we're going to get
the other.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Two very very soon. Now, if they just led with
that two weeks ago, it would have been fine. The
story would have been or roar a cops.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Are dealing with this problem instead of what this has become,
which is, you know, the telephone game and the Internet
that have always been taken over by gangs.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So it's not that at all. So at least that
is on the blog. I link to the story in
the Denver Is that about that? Also? City Journal? I
love City Journal.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
I have subscribed to City Journal for a very long time.
It is the magazine, the quarterly magazine, or it used
to be quarterly, but now it's They regularly post stuff
from the Manhattan Institute in New York as center right
leaning think tank that does really interesting work. And Christopher
Ruffo has been really at the heart of reporting about
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homelessness in this country. He's been really at the forefront
of reporting on the DEI kind of corruption of the
university system. And he's written a story with Christina Buttons
at City Journal about Aurora about how we got here,
How did we get to a point where we have
apartment complexes full of illegal immigrants, which is what we have.
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And the fastest thing to understand is that it's mostly
Denver's fault that these large numbers of immigrants are being
concentrated in these in these apartment buildings, because the landlord says,
and I don't have a lot of love for the landlord,
because I do think he's this loan loord. But the
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landlord says that the the Venezuelans, they were told that
the Venezuelans had jobs and had, you know, an ability
to pay. And these charitable organizations that are funded by
Denver with our tax dollars and the State of Colorado
and federal tax dollars are paid for the first couple
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of months, and then they these people can't afford to
live there anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It's just it's a disaster. Let me just share this
one part.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
The story begins in twenty twenty one, when the Biden
administration signed the American Rescue Plan Act ARPA into law,
allocating three point eight billion dollars in federal funds to Colorado.
The city of Denver, which had declared itself a welcoming
city to migrants, drew on this reservoir money to launch
its emergency Migrant Response resettlement program with the goal of
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housing and providing services to a massive flow of migrants.
Denver in turn signed multimillion dollar contracts with two local NGOs.
Those are non governmental organizations VIEV Wellness and Papagaio, to
provide housing and services to more than eight thousand, predominantly
Venezuelan migrants. These NGOs are run respectively by Julie Kassas
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and Marilena Suarez, who, according to professional biographies, do not
appear to have previous experience in large scale migrant resettlement. Nevertheless,
the city flooded them with cash. According to public records,
between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four, VIV Wellness
and Papagaio received four point eight million and seven hundred
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and seventy four thousand, respectively. Much of this funding came
from the Migrant Support Grant, which was funded by ARPA. Then,
in twenty twenty four, VIVS secured an extra ten point
four million across three contracts, while Papagayo received two point
nine million from a single contract.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
To serve migrants.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
And then they began working with landlords to place migrants
in housing units and to subsidize their rents, and that's
how they got hooked up with CBZ Management, and a
former employee of CBZ Management.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Said that they were told.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
That the Venezuelans had jobs and that they would be
able to pay after their two months of rental assistance
ran out, and within six months, according to the employee,
approximately eighty percent of the residents in the buildings where
Venezuelan migrants and the gang activity and violence increased.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
So it's just a mess, but.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Denver welcoming.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Remember Mayor Michael Hancock, We're open, immigrants, welcome, come on up.
And then when you get what you pay for, they
then firm these people out into.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Aurora without even letting them know that this was going on.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I mean, this is just, this is just I'm going
to start calling Mayor Mike Mayor Mike Johnston, not Mayor
Mike Coffin. I guess I have to be clear. Mayor
Johnston is like this is gonna sound so ridiculous, and
I have to remember the proper terms. So I was
watching a show on organizing, and there are different styles
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of organization.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Some people like to have all of their stuff showing, right.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I like to have it organized but showing. Some people
like to hide their stuff behind a door. And those
people are crickets. And I remember that because I'm a cricket.
I don't want to see stuff. I like to just
put it behind a door and call it a day.
Mayor Mike Johnston is a cricket, but he's only a
cricket with human beings. If you're homeless, he doesn't want
you where people can see you. If you're a Venezuelan immigrant,
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he doesn't watch you where people.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Can see you.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
And once you're out of the way, you become someone
else's problem.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's really what it feels like here.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Like you've got people who can't legally work in the country,
and you give them two months rental assistance and.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Then what.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I mean, if you want to know why people are
selling flowers on street corners and trying to clean your
wind shield and all of that crap, it's because of this.
We've set them up to fail. And I don't know
what to do about it. I'm not going to pretend
to have all the answers, but this City Journal article
is very, very interesting. You should probably read it. It's
not much longer, so go ahead and read that, because
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fascinating story. And you can't fix a problem if you
don't know the cause of the problem initially, right, And
it is very obvious what the problem is initially the
insanely lacks border policies of the Biden Harris administration and
the welcoming nature and sanctuary state status of Colorado. Those
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two things have created this perfect storm. And if you
need me to tell you which party created this perfect storm,
come on, come on man. Speaking of come on man,
I want to debunk a conspiracy theory before it really
takes hold. Kamala Harris was not wearing earbud earrings in
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the debate. She was wearing Tiffany set pearls. And they
don't even look enough like the earbud earrings that do
exist and are a real thing.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And did look similar.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
But the differences are glaring and they're not even remotely true.
And I'm thinking to myself when I saw that, by
the way, I saw it on Twitter, and I was like,
Oh God.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What are we doing? What are we doing?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
And then I realized, based on who was posting about it,
that it was a bunch of hardcore Trump supporters who
are looking for anything to blame his incredibly poor performance
in the debate on And yeah, no because he didn't
do well, because he didn't do poorly, because she did well.
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He did poorly because he did poorly. So yeah, no,
she was not wearing earbuds, she was not getting audio,
none of that stuff was happening.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Let it go, Let it go. A clubutter bug? Wait
a minute, is a clutterbug? Texture?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Just hit the Common Spirit health text line at five
six six, And I know clutterbug? Is that a person
who doesn't like clutter in front of them? Or is
that a person who likes all of their clutter neatly organized?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
So what is that?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Clarify for me? Text? This texture said, I'm not racist.
You know, whenever you start a sentence with I'm not racist,
it usually goes downhill from there.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I'm not racist. I'm a culturist.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
If people don't assimilate to the Western European, mostly Northern
European culture of working hard, being on time, science and
math are not dependent on some fat of a third
world culture. I suppose this makes me a white supremacist.
I'm all for cultural appropriation of their let's see.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Dang it. Anyway, Hey, Mandy, awesome that you read that.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Another reminder is the big lie from commlin her media
keepers is a ng risk needs to act to secure
the border.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
That is a lie.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Joe Biden and Mayorcis bragged about some ninety executive orders
that open the border the second after Biden got in.
All we have to do at the border is allow
the border patrol to do its job.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
That is, that is the only thing we have to
do at the border.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
We have to stop catch and release because it's a failure,
absolutely a failure. Anyway, Okay, we're gonna take a Oh wait, grant.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Do we have a time out here?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
We do not.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh so we can just go right up to the
end of the show.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
You're going right up to news and traffic at two thirty.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Wow, that's fantastic because I got lots more on the
blog over here. So what I need to know what
a clutterbug is, Mandy, This is getting frustrating. Get to
the endgame of what the government is trying to do.
This is by design, and it's not what they want
us to think. They are being good hearted people. I
don't know which part of that you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Like the Pooh Pooh Mandy. There's a group of.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Twenty of us go to see Am I a Racist?
At Westminster Promenade tonight. I'm sure we'll be laughing a lot.
I can't go see it tonight, but I'm gonna see
if chuckle go with me tomorrow night, because I really
want to see it, and I wanted to do well.
You know, I want to send a message to Hollywood
that if they stop making crap, if they stop ignoring
half the country and just making all this woke garbage
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out of Hollywood that no one wants to see and
give us movies like this, we'll come back, now.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Will we. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I'm the old I fall asleep when I watch a movie,
so I prefer to do that in the comfort of
my own home.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
You're telling me you don't want to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Okay, we actually watched Beetlejuice last weekend to get ready
for Beetlejuice. Beetle Juice, that's an exception. Okay, whenever I
think about woke movies, I think of Disney.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Isn't that sad? Like Disney used to be Disney.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
It used to be where you could take your kids
and your grandmother and everybody to the same movie and
there was never gonna be a single.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Offensive thing in that movie. Now it's like, Okay, do
we have enough trans kids in this movie? Do we
have enough gay people in this movie?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Do we have any gay people making out even in
the background in this movie?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
How can we make this movie more gay? And y'all,
I don't care about someone's sexuality.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I truly don't. So it's not me being anti gay.
It's like, my god, in real life, how many gay
people do you run around in run into on a
daily basis?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Like, I don't know. It's just it's so ridiculous, and
I'm so sad about Disney.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Mandy, ooh, big grass Fire, I seventy in airport, Grant,
let our news team know grass Fire and I seventy
in airport. Let them know some thing. Follow that up, Mandy,
his poor performance. Hannity was saying, how Trump won the debate,
said it today prior to your show, and this might
be why I don't listen to Hannity. I mean, I've
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met Sean Hannity many times, but he's not my favorite broadcaster.
Let me just put it that way. Nice guy, very
you know, nothing bad to say about him, except I
could have told you Sean Hannity was going to say
Trump one in. No, not even the least bit surprising
that he said that. I prefer to be realistic.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I also am not.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
You know, I'm not like thinking that we've all fallen
over alledge here, you know what I mean. I don't
think that this is going to cost Trump the election,
but I'm capable of recognizing a horrible debate performance when
I see it.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And that's what I saw.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Mandy Clutterbug is the overarching system. Each bug is cricket, butterfly,
grasshopper and something else. Good podcast Clutterbug. Her show on
HGTV was called something Else. Yes, that's what I saw.
It was it was that was That was it. It
was something about declutter grant. Are you an organizer or
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is Olivia the organizer?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I am not the organizer.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I want to keep every piece of junk I've ever
accumulated in my life.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Is that an Ohio thing.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I think I got it from my grandmother. But thank
God for Olivia because she keeps our house so organized,
which is.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we also have some other stiff grant.
Do you ever use the scooters downtown or the e
bikes or any of that stuff?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
You ever do that all the time?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Really, Well, you're not.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Lyft is pulling all of their scooters and e bikes
out of downtown.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
They're lackless ones.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
That's because the line ones are better.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Well what is I got to tell you? I hate
all of them? Here's why.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
First of all, last time I was walking downtown, like
four drunk tourists on scooters almost kill me as I'm walking.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, the rule is you don't ride them on the sidewalks.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Well, apparently they don't get the message right, so the
sidewalk with me and almost kill me. And then like
a week later, I'm coming down Spear going toward fourteenth
Not Spear, I'm sorry, I'm coming off of a area
coming towards fourteenth yet little jog worse furious yeah, and
traffic is not moving at all.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And I finally get.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Up and it's one of those flipping scooters in the
middle of the lane and.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
No one stops to get it.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yes, so I stopped my car and got it out
of the lane.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
It's like, what are you people doing? How can no
one get out of the car and move it.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
I will say they are dangerous and burden to a
lot of drivers, but I love them. Like when I
cover the Nuggets or the Avalanche games in the playoffs,
I take a scooter on the bike path right to
the stadium, don't have to deal with any of the traffic.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
So I'm I'm a firm lover of them.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Well, just as an aside here, the number of people
admitted at Enver Health for electric scooter crashes rose from
eighteen people in twenty eighteen to one hundred and fifty
eight people in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
I wouldn't ride them for like the first two years
because one of my best friends wrecked one and had
to go to the er with you know, big old
scrapes down her arm and legs.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So I was. I was scared of them at first,
and now I ride him all the time.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
And now for no apparent reason, because they've gotten no
more safe.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
No not just go there's enough distance between you.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
And her, correct, I forgot about.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The scarring has faded. You can hardly tell. I mean,
just you know, other than that jagged thing over her eye. Fine,
I will.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Say, Man, I had a couple of drinks one night
and wrecked one and it was not It did not
feel good for a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Yeah, I'm too old for that. One of my friends
and I were talking about not getting a horse when.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
We were kids. She's like, you know, you can get
your own horse.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I'm like no, because now it feels like if I
fell off a horse. We're talking actual serious damage, right,
Like when you're young you're like, oh, yeah, I landed
on a fence post. I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well, just asked Mark Johnson. He broke broke his hip
or something falling off a horse? Recent? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Hard pass, hard pass on that. Are we ready for
the news, traffic and weather right now?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
All right, let's do it. Who is Oh, we've got Canaan,
he's in the news room today. What do you got
for me? Interesting poll out? It is a poll.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
According to the Colorado Health Foundation's annual Pulse Survey.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So they surveyed two four hundred and four.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Individuals and out of those, nineteen percent said the cost
of living and inflation are the most important issues facing
the state's. That's a pretty good chunk. That's I mean,
that's almost a fifth of voters. What was the second
second goes hand in hand with the first. Seventeen percent
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named housing affordability as a major issue. Now you put
those together and you're sitting at thirty six percent. That's
pretty significant. And so the economy is absolutely the number
one topic for Coloradon's. By the way, it came up
in other areas, so eleven percent at number three, Government
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and politics, and I don't I'd love to see the
or have the opportunity to do that follow up question
like what do you are you worried about the size
of government? Are you worried about what government is doing
to us? Are you worried about the state of politics today?
That's too big in general for my taste. Then immigration,
a need for immigration reform. This one wasn't even on
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the on the radar in.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The last election cycle.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
And it's not just immigration, it's look, we got to
do something to fix this system. And I agree wholeheartedly
with that. But my position will always be secure the
border first, and at the same time, I know This
sounds so crazy, but at the same time that's happening.
You then come up with a comprehensive plan to renovate, reactivate, modernize,
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and make the cur the new immigration system work for people.
So yeah, public crime and safety came in at seven percent,
Climate change in the environment came in at six percent,
and then economy and jobs comes in at five percent.
So we'll add that to the thirty six percent, and
now we're at forty one percent of Colorado's are worried
about something directly related to the economy.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Taxes four percent, same thing. Water.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
I think only you know in Colorado. That's a huge issue,
very very important issue. That's at four percent. Immigration, crisis
at the border, border security three percent, alcohol, drug use,
opioid crisis two percent, education, roads, social justice, racism all
at two percent, Traffic congestion, and wildfires one percent. So
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it's all about the economy. And right now it's interesting
because people are still they're dealing with the inflation that
we've dealt with for the last three years. Things are
about twenty percent more expensive than they were two years ago.
So even though inflation is down to about two point
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five percent, that's what it was the last time I
saw it, and I believe the Fed is going to
lower interest rates a little bit, but people are still
dealing with that twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Increase, and you have to wonder it would.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Be nice if we had a functioning Republican party here
in the state that could actually, you know, talk about
these different issues, talk about the many ways that the legislature,
since it has been fully controlled by Democrats, has actually
made the cost of living in Colorado much higher. All
of these minimum wage edicts that have come down, they're
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hurting the.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
People by the way that they're supposed to help.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Studies have shown that as minimum wage goes up, minimum
wage workers actually end up getting fewer hours, so they
end up making less money than they did before the
minimum wage increase. We're putting restaurants out of business with this.
Don't even get me started on what the ridiculous new
building edicts are doing to the cost of building a house.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You know, it's like they just don't get it.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
They just allowed our property taxes to skyrocket. They had
four years to fix that problem, four years and they
did nothing, nothing, And now they want to sweep in
After that giant increase went into effect and say, hey,
you know what, We're going to make sure this never
happens again, No way, not on our watch. And we're
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supposed to be grateful, So you know, I don't know
how much people's personal economies are going to go into
the consideration of their vote, but this is one of
those things that as I am trying, and boy, you guys,
I'm keeping my private struggle to myself because I don't
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want to burden you with it. But I am really
struggling with the notion of voting again for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I cannot go on the sidelines and not make a
statement that I I think Kamala Harris would be so
much worse that I am choosing to vote for someone
I really don't like. And I said it the other
day that debate performance was everything I don't like about
Donald Trump, just everything. So yeah, Mandy, I walk everywhere
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I go and I'm always repositioning and moving those damn scooters.
If you're going to use one, I suppose it's fine,
but don't litter the sidewalks and streets with them.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Amen, Thank you, fellow scooter mover.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I agree with that.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
It drives me crazy when there's one in front of
my house on the sidewalk.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Oh, I just it's like just and it's laying on
its side. They're never standing up. It just looks all
willy nilly. I don't like willy nilly. Willy Nilly's not
for me.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So I'm wondering.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
I want to ask you as this. You can hit
the text line at five, six to six, and I
know which concern what concerns you the most when you
are looking at candidates to vote for. What are you
looking for specifically in choosing a candidate? Now, I realize
that I am mostly talking to people who share my viewpoint,
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but I'd.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Like to know what you formulate in your head? What
is the most important issue? What do you want the people.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Who are running for your vote to talk about? Five six,
six nine. Oh, aren't the property taxes in Colorado one
of the lowest in the country, like third lowest?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Right? Not anymore? Not anymore?
Speaker 6 (28:33):
So?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, we were long time ago, long long time ago,
years and year.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I'm just kidding back in your day.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Exactly exactly right, exactly right. Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
So I've got a couple more stories I want to
get to. I'm watching the clock and I want to
make sure I get these in because this story. Immediately
I thought of something. Well, I'll see if you guys
think about it. A lot of people know what adderall is.
Adderall is treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I happened to think that it is probably one of the.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Most misused drugs in high school and college. Grant, what
was your experience with adderall when you were in college.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I knew tons of people that took it and needed it.
I knew more people that took it and didn't need it.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
I took it one time and I thought I was
going to have a heart attack, and I never took
it again.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Adderall is a stimulant, a pretty significant stimulant. But for
people with ADHD, it can actually help them focus, and
it's very effective.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
For people who need it.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
But a lot of college students take it so they
can stay up all night and study for an exam
that they should have studied for for like the two
weeks before that, but they waited till the night before it.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Am I lying right now? This is exactly what's happening.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
But a new study published by the American Journal of
psyche Psychiatry found the Individuals taking high doses of adderall
face more than a fivefold increased risk of developing psychosis
or mania. Key factors include the lack of upper dosing
guidelines and the notable increase in young adults using the
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medication since the COVID nineteen pandemic because now they can
get them from telemedicine providers. Right, So, what they were
seeing was a lot of people in the Boston area
coming in without much of a psychiatric history that developed
a like an episode of psychosis or mania in the
context of using those prescription stimulants.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So the first thing I think of is school shooters,
you know, I think of these kids that are going
nuts and shooting up a school.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
It's like, how many kids are on these medications? How
many kids could take too many of these medications? You know,
it's freaky, I am. You know, I realized that some
people cannot function without these meds, and I don't want them,
you know, I don't want them to not be able
to get the help they need.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
But the reality is is I do believe that these
are the most abused drugs on college campuses, and if
this is a potential.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Outcome, they need to be spreading the message. Not that
it'll change anything, but it's kind of interesting listen to this.
For their investigation, they reviewed the electronic health records of
people sixteen to thirty five admitted it Mass General Brigham
Hospitals between two thousand and five and twenty nineteen. That's
the typical onset age range for psychosis or losing touch
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with reality. The research identified a little over thirteen hundred
individuals experiencing their first episode of psychosis or mania and
compared them to about three thousand control patients.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
By analyzing Adderall use.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
During the previous month and adjusting for other variables like
substance use, they were able to specifically determine the impact
of the stimulants. If they had taken Adderall, they were
two point six eight times more likely to have been
hospitalized with psychosis armania compared to those who were not,
and it increased to five point two eight times more
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likely at higher doses and forty.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Milligrams and above. So there you go. I mean, and
we're giving this stuff to kids. By the way, we're
giving it to kids, and again, some people really need it.
But I hope that we're over the over medication of
our kids because when the boys were in.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
High school, so in the nineties, the nineties felt like
peak medicate your kids. I doubt the nineties were absolutely like,
Oh your kid has.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
ADHD, you need to get them on medication.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
You know, everybody wanted to medicate your kid, and I
just wonder, like, what are we doing long term with that? Anyway,
another very interesting story that is on the blog today.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
A guy goes into a.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Part of New York that is primarily Orthodox shoes and
he starts to talking to Orthodox Jews about who they're
voting for in the election. And I found this really
interesting because secular Jews are going to probably vote Democrat,
as they reliably do. And when I say secular Jews,
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that is not in any way a negative. It is
not a disparagement. It is simply the fact that there
are many people who are Jewish who don't necessarily practice
the faith religiously pun intended. And Orthodox Jews, of course,
are much more religious. They are deeply religious. And to
a person that he spoke with the they're.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Vote for Trump.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
And it's not a reflexive answer, and it has nothing
to do with Israel.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
In most of the cases, it's fascinating. It's about five
minutes long. That is at the bottom of the blog today. Okay,
let me get these in. I asked you, what do
you do? How do you find your how do you
make your decisions? Mandy? My property taxes went up six
hundred bucks a month.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
It's killing me. And the relief I get is sixty
dollars less a month. That's nothing.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Correct. How much is Jared polus net worth? Four hundred million?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
He's out of touch with our struggles, says this text message, Mandy,
what does it matter who you vote for in Colorado?
Because doesn't all of our electoral vote go to whoever
California votes for. No, that never went into effect.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
The what was that?
Speaker 5 (34:28):
The Compact of States? What was it called? It was
so stupid, It was just so dumb. It was just
it was the dumbest thing ever. And it only happened
because Trump won. Now if Trump wins again, expected to
rear its ugly. He had noticed it's been nowhere during
the Biden administration. Nowhere it does matter to me who
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I vote for. Though, it matters to me that if
the Harris administration turns into the economic dumpster fire that
I think it will. I want to be able to
tell my kids, I voted against her. I voted for
the candidate that had the best chance.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Of meeting her.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
I did my part. I knew it in the grand
scheme of things. It was a symbolic vote. But it's
a symbolic vote that matters, you know, Mandy. The main
thing for anyone to consider when selecting a candidate is
big corporation fiscal responsibility.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Okay, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
I heard one local city building code committee was looking
at making residential sprinklers a required for new build single
family homes.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Are you talking about like for fires? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
I don't know if that's fire suppression on the house
or in the lawn. I look at someone who's a
strong leader and doesn't change their position to get votes.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Who is that magical person?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Because I can tell you every single politician has changed
position on something in order to get elected. Maybe not
Rand Paul, maybe not Thomas Massey, but boy, they are
so few and far in between, Mandy. I pick candidates
based in liberty and world peace.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Many secular Jews are attorneys and are desperately afraid of
tort reform, true, Mandy, My son.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Took adderall in fifth grade for ADHD.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
After one week, he told me that every day in
school he wanted to kill everyone, stop the drug, and
homeschool the rest of the year. He's now thirty and
perfectly fine, and more importantly, textter his classmates are alive.
Good good, good job, Mandy. A vote isn't a Valentine.
I'm not professing to love. I'm not professing my love
for the person, but rather a chess match about how
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the country should be run. I don't care about personality,
personal life, but policies, and if they're.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Part of the cabal or not.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
For me, that's trump on most policies. There you go, girls,
mask ADHD symptoms.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
They do.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
America has an addiction to both illegal and legal drugs. Headache, overweight,
hyper depressed, and back pain.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Isn't adderall a lab made methamphetamine prescribed by a doctor. Yes,
kind of Mandy. Imagine being on adderall and testosterone. No, no, no, no, no, no, yep, Mandy,
per your conversation about drunk scooter drivers illegally on sidewalks
trying to mow you down. Seems like a good time
for a hero. Twenty twenty oh my gosh. I was
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supposed to call my guy from Euro twenty twenty today
and I totally forgot because the schedule got me so
jacked up.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Okay, if one of your freaking listener shoots me with
a Hero twenty twenty, we're going to have a pot.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Have you seen those things? They're super cool?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, and I think it would still hurt very bad.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Well, it does. It leaves a mark, as they say,
it leaves a mark. So let me do what I'll
reschedule him, like dang it, we're to talk.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
There's a big gun show coming on this weekend and
he's there, and I wanted to do a little preview
of that. But no, the Hero twenty twenty is awesome
and it's I don't know. I don't want to do
commercial right now, especially when I want to get one
more story from the blog today and this is very quickly.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
This blows my mind.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
So again, I want to remind you of something back
in I don't know, some hundred number year Hippocrates said,
the guy that the Hippocratic oath is named after, said
all disease begins in the gut. So just remember that
as I tell you this next story. A new study
shows that there is a relationship between abdominal fat and
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widespread muscular musculoskeletal pain.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
They don't know why, and it's all kinds of fat.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
If you have higher levels of abdominal fat, you have
greater odds of reporting chronic pain overall, and we're more
likely to have pain in multiple sites like neck, back, hips.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
And knees.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
The connection between fat and pain appears to be stronger
in women than men. So fascinating story. You can read
that on the uh on the blog today?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Do we have do we have?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Who's in? Ryan?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Who's a rod your favorite producer?
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Where's he? Where's he right now? Wait? Uh? Wait? What's happening?
What's happening anyway? Grant? Hello? Hello? Oh there you go. Okay,
this is gonna be interesting because you're where are you
right now? A rod Well?
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I am at Sam's Number three in Glendale. I am
here playing engineer. I've taken off my producer cap today
here with koa Sports, Ryan and Al are gonna be
here at sam Zumber three and Glendale until six. We're
gonna be registering some people to win some sign broncos
merchan and have the show right here from the from
the SAMs number three and Glendale having some fun nice.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
Okay, So it's gonna be interesting because we're on two
separate feeds right now, we're gonna see here and now
it's time for the most exciting segment on.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
The radio of It's gone it.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Uh, give me the mic back, Gosh, I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah,
keep working on it.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Their chief all right. What is our dad joke of
the day?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Dad joke of the day.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Well, I was going to tell a sodium joke, but
then I thought, nah, oh that's funny periodic joke.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Yeah that's a good one. Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Get that, but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
What is our word of the day? Please?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Word of the day is a verb. It is bratternize.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Oh that means to hang out with someone, to.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Mix something, visualize.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
You guys got it?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
All right, Joe, here's trivia question today. What was what
was teelor what was Taylor.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
Swift's debut single, released in two thousand and six when
she was a teenager.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Wasn't that Shake It Off?
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Oh say, tear drops on my guitar?
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Nope, nope, nope, that would be thankfully, Jim.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
McGraw has its name to yes tribute to Tim McGraw.
There you go back when Taylor Smith was Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Okay, what's our Jeopardy category?
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Please grant Jeopardy category for today? Classic television? Okay, I
got a chance, You got a chance?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Classic television? Okay, here we go.
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Will Smith lived with his aunt and uncle in a pod. Mandy,
what is the Fresh Prince of bel Air?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
That's classic television?
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Classic? He'y years old?
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Sick? You see, Mandy when you get older?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Stop it? Why didn't you just drive a dagger through
my heart instead? Jeez, Louise, It's like.
Speaker 6 (41:39):
When I hear Green Day on the classic rock station. Gosh,
now you've heard us. Nineteen sixty four saw the premieres
of both The Adams Family and this show also named
Man the Monsters.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Correct. Okay, Rod, do you play in today? Or what
I am?
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Here?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I get to blame the delay.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
This show about the Korean War won only one Emmy.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
What is mass?
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Correct? Three zero bard.
Speaker 6 (42:09):
Beginning in nineteen seventy eight, Bill Bixby took no Shanny.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
What is the Hulk? The Incredible Hulk?
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:16):
I know, I love the clue?
Speaker 6 (42:18):
There took no shirt after getting angry on this show?
All right, last one A footnote to history. Magician Fred
Kapps followed the Beatles on his February ninth, sixth, nineteen
sixty four show, Freddy Mandy, who is Ed Sullivan? Correct
a Klean, I'm really sweet?
Speaker 2 (42:36):
She's five enough sweet to me. This is why I host,
This is.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Why I don't let this white and blow.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
This is why I'm taking off my producer cat today
and again engineering the great gentleman Ryan and big al
Ka Sports.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
Who's coming to see you as SAMs number three in
Glendale today?
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Am I not enough?
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Who's saying? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Ryan? You have any guests today? Anyone coming on the
show today? Lots of guests. Who you got, man? It's
as We've got Brandon Jones Broncos Safety, We've got Rick Lewis,
color voice at the Broncos on KOA.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Previous, and we also.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Have someone coming on to a preview the Steelers upcoming matchups.
So all coming out down right here in Glendale. The
Sam's number three until six again. Come by. You can
register in the witness I'm Broncos signed merch. Pretty cool,
Meet Ryan, meetal meet me, meet the whole crew.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Say what's up exactly.
Speaker 5 (43:24):
That's all happening now. We'll be back with the full
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Well, no, it's Mandy Connell and Condall.
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Speaker 4 (00:25):
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Speaker 5 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a very short edition of the show.
But don't you worry about a thing. I'm your host
for the next fifty two minutes. Mandy Connell joined, of course,
Well not of course, because we don't get grant very often,
but we love when we do. He is taking it
for he's handling things for A Rod who will be
back on Tuesday because he's working all weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So yeah, so yeah, we're down a.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Producer and that means these guys are going to be
working excessively for.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The foreseeable future.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, welcome to the club a Rod.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, exactly, exactly right.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
We have fifty now, we have fifty one minutes, and
I'm squandering it right now.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So let's do this really quickly.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
We're going to do the blog before we take our
break at twelve, and let's do this. Find the blog
at mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says
nine to twelve twenty four blog a short show today
and I don't know when it starts. Click on that
and here are the headlines you will find within.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Anyone's list in office Halpen, I reckon all with ships.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Today on the blog.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
If I'm reading this on the radio, I have a show.
Mike Kaufman and Danielle Dorinsky release a statement together. Who
enabled the migrant influx to Aurora?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Vice President Harris wasn't wearing earbuds. Lift is leaving the
docless scooter and ebait ebyte game in Denver. This clown
deserves a long jail sentence. You want to know why
developing anything in Denver is so burdensome. What do Colorados
care most about? Go see ami racist? When can we
expect our first freeze? High doses of adderall can lead
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to side cosis, belly fat and chronic pain are connected.
Orthan dog Jews are voting for Trump. Those are the
headlines on our tiny blog today atmandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Now there is.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
There are a couple of things on the blog today, Grant.
Did you see Matt Walsh's movie What Is a Woman?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Did you happen to see it?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
My god?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Okay, First of all, Matt Walsh a little bit of
Matt Walsh. Matt used to work for iHeartMedia in Lexington, Kentucky, Okay.
So he started as a blogger, then he got a
radio show, then he went to work with Daily Wire,
and now he is making some of the best documentaries
that are out there.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And What Is a Woman was his first.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Documentary, and I have to I would put it in
the category of mockumentary really, like, you know, because he's
essentially going in here with the the you know, under
the guise of finding out from diversity, equity and inclusion specialists,
the people who have been making their living off this,
and he goes in seriously like he's trying to learn
about it, and then and then mayhem ensues. And this one,
(03:08):
Am I A Racist? Opens this weekend today, as a
matter of fact, and I would love to see this
be a smashing, huge success because it looks hysterical. Christian
Toto reviewed it and said it is the funniest comedy
all year and it's a documentary, So put those things together.
But that's something that I'm I'm planning on. So there's
(03:29):
like two movies out right now that I want to see.
I want to see Reagan and I want to see this,
So we've turned the corner.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I'm actually watching the trailer right now. It looks pretty good.
It's very well done.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah. Well, and that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Here's Matt Walsh is just a blogger and now he's
making these really funny movies. But they make a really
important point, and that is ultimately the point of this
is to point out the absurdity of what these people
are doing and this kind of grift that has this
industry that has sprung up out of telling mostly white
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liberals or captive audiences that white people are the devil
and that we are inherently racist and there's nothing we
can do to fix it. And by the way, can
we get reparations, Well, there's nothing that we can do
to fix it. Reparations are off the table, right because
what's the point? But really really interesting, very very interesting.
(04:23):
So I'm going to go see that hopefully this weekend.
And today on the blog, I've got a bunch of stuff,
and not the least of which is the story about
the joint statement released by Mike Coffin and Danielle Drinsky.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And that's important because Mike and Danielle have been on. Uh.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I'm not going to see the opposite sides because that
would not be fair. But they have they have been
inconsistent in their messaging about what's been going on in Aurora.
And I would point out that Mayor Mike Kaufman has
now moved far more to the d Daniel Drinsky camp
and vice versa. And this whole situation, I said it yesterday,
(05:04):
This is a perfect example of what not to do
when you have crisis PR issues. And this is in
crisis public relations.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
As a whole field.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
If I'd known crisis public relations was a field, I
probably would have tried to go into it. I think
that would be incredible to try and come up with
the messaging.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And you see it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
All the time in politics. We talk about it on
the show, like that's terrible messaging. Who came up with that?
But crisis PR is when you have something arise and
then what do you do next.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You want to come out.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Of it the best possible case, giving the impression that
the problem has been solved and we're all moving forward
whatever the problem is.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And that's not what Aurora did, and now they're doing it.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
So you have Mike Kaufman and Danielle Jorensky putting out
a statement that says, look, there are buildings that have
been significantly affected, but this is not an all encumbencing
Aurora thing. And we were listed eight of the ten
people linked to the gang and we're going to get
the other.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Two very very soon. Now, if they just led with
that two weeks ago, it would have been fine. The
story would have been or roar a cops.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Are dealing with this problem instead of what this has become,
which is, you know, the telephone game and the Internet
that have always been taken over by gangs.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So it's not that at all. So at least that
is on the blog. I link to the story in
the Denver Is that about that? Also? City Journal? I
love City Journal.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
I have subscribed to City Journal for a very long time.
It is the magazine, the quarterly magazine, or it used
to be quarterly, but now it's They regularly post stuff
from the Manhattan Institute in New York as center right
leaning think tank that does really interesting work. And Christopher
Ruffo has been really at the heart of reporting about
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homelessness in this country. He's been really at the forefront
of reporting on the DEI kind of corruption of the
university system. And he's written a story with Christina Buttons
at City Journal about Aurora about how we got here,
How did we get to a point where we have
apartment complexes full of illegal immigrants, which is what we have.
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And the fastest thing to understand is that it's mostly
Denver's fault that these large numbers of immigrants are being
concentrated in these in these apartment buildings, because the landlord says,
and I don't have a lot of love for the landlord,
because I do think he's this loan loord. But the
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landlord says that the the Venezuelans, they were told that
the Venezuelans had jobs and had, you know, an ability
to pay. And these charitable organizations that are funded by
Denver with our tax dollars and the State of Colorado
and federal tax dollars are paid for the first couple
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of months, and then they these people can't afford to
live there anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It's just it's a disaster. Let me just share this
one part.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
The story begins in twenty twenty one, when the Biden
administration signed the American Rescue Plan Act ARPA into law,
allocating three point eight billion dollars in federal funds to Colorado.
The city of Denver, which had declared itself a welcoming
city to migrants, drew on this reservoir money to launch
its emergency Migrant Response resettlement program with the goal of
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housing and providing services to a massive flow of migrants.
Denver in turn signed multimillion dollar contracts with two local NGOs.
Those are non governmental organizations VIEV Wellness and Papagaio, to
provide housing and services to more than eight thousand, predominantly
Venezuelan migrants. These NGOs are run respectively by Julie Kassas
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and Marilena Suarez, who, according to professional biographies, do not
appear to have previous experience in large scale migrant resettlement. Nevertheless,
the city flooded them with cash. According to public records,
between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four, VIV Wellness
and Papagaio received four point eight million and seven hundred
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and seventy four thousand, respectively. Much of this funding came
from the Migrant Support Grant, which was funded by ARPA. Then,
in twenty twenty four, VIVS secured an extra ten point
four million across three contracts, while Papagayo received two point
nine million from a single contract.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
To serve migrants.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
And then they began working with landlords to place migrants
in housing units and to subsidize their rents, and that's
how they got hooked up with CBZ Management, and a
former employee of CBZ Management.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Said that they were told.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
That the Venezuelans had jobs and that they would be
able to pay after their two months of rental assistance
ran out, and within six months, according to the employee,
approximately eighty percent of the residents in the buildings where
Venezuelan migrants and the gang activity and violence increased.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
So it's just a mess, but.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Denver welcoming.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Remember Mayor Michael Hancock, We're open, immigrants, welcome, come on up.
And then when you get what you pay for, they
then firm these people out into.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Aurora without even letting them know that this was going on.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I mean, this is just, this is just I'm going
to start calling Mayor Mike Mayor Mike Johnston, not Mayor
Mike Coffin. I guess I have to be clear. Mayor
Johnston is like this is gonna sound so ridiculous, and
I have to remember the proper terms. So I was
watching a show on organizing, and there are different styles
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of organization.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Some people like to have all of their stuff showing, right.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I like to have it organized but showing. Some people
like to hide their stuff behind a door. And those
people are crickets. And I remember that because I'm a cricket.
I don't want to see stuff. I like to just
put it behind a door and call it a day.
Mayor Mike Johnston is a cricket, but he's only a
cricket with human beings. If you're homeless, he doesn't want
you where people can see you. If you're a Venezuelan immigrant,
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he doesn't watch you where people.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Can see you.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
And once you're out of the way, you become someone
else's problem.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's really what it feels like here.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Like you've got people who can't legally work in the country,
and you give them two months rental assistance and.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Then what.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I mean, if you want to know why people are
selling flowers on street corners and trying to clean your
wind shield and all of that crap, it's because of this.
We've set them up to fail. And I don't know
what to do about it. I'm not going to pretend
to have all the answers, but this City Journal article
is very, very interesting. You should probably read it. It's
not much longer, so go ahead and read that, because
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fascinating story. And you can't fix a problem if you
don't know the cause of the problem initially, right, And
it is very obvious what the problem is initially the
insanely lacks border policies of the Biden Harris administration and
the welcoming nature and sanctuary state status of Colorado. Those
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two things have created this perfect storm. And if you
need me to tell you which party created this perfect storm,
come on, come on man. Speaking of come on man,
I want to debunk a conspiracy theory before it really
takes hold. Kamala Harris was not wearing earbud earrings in
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the debate. She was wearing Tiffany set pearls. And they
don't even look enough like the earbud earrings that do
exist and are a real thing.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And did look similar.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
But the differences are glaring and they're not even remotely true.
And I'm thinking to myself when I saw that, by
the way, I saw it on Twitter, and I was like,
Oh God.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What are we doing? What are we doing?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
And then I realized, based on who was posting about it,
that it was a bunch of hardcore Trump supporters who
are looking for anything to blame his incredibly poor performance
in the debate on And yeah, no because he didn't
do well, because he didn't do poorly, because she did well.
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He did poorly because he did poorly. So yeah, no,
she was not wearing earbuds, she was not getting audio,
none of that stuff was happening.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Let it go, Let it go. A clubutter bug? Wait
a minute, is a clutterbug? Texture?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Just hit the Common Spirit health text line at five
six six, And I know clutterbug? Is that a person
who doesn't like clutter in front of them? Or is
that a person who likes all of their clutter neatly organized?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
So what is that?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Clarify for me? Text? This texture said, I'm not racist.
You know, whenever you start a sentence with I'm not racist,
it usually goes downhill from there.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I'm not racist. I'm a culturist.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
If people don't assimilate to the Western European, mostly Northern
European culture of working hard, being on time, science and
math are not dependent on some fat of a third
world culture. I suppose this makes me a white supremacist.
I'm all for cultural appropriation of their let's see.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Dang it. Anyway, Hey, Mandy, awesome that you read that.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Another reminder is the big lie from commlin her media
keepers is a ng risk needs to act to secure
the border.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
That is a lie.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Joe Biden and Mayorcis bragged about some ninety executive orders
that open the border the second after Biden got in.
All we have to do at the border is allow
the border patrol to do its job.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
That is, that is the only thing we have to
do at the border.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
We have to stop catch and release because it's a failure,
absolutely a failure. Anyway, Okay, we're gonna take a Oh wait, grant.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Do we have a time out here?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
We do not.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh so we can just go right up to the
end of the show.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
You're going right up to news and traffic at two thirty.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Wow, that's fantastic because I got lots more on the
blog over here. So what I need to know what
a clutterbug is, Mandy, This is getting frustrating. Get to
the endgame of what the government is trying to do.
This is by design, and it's not what they want
us to think. They are being good hearted people. I
don't know which part of that you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Like the Pooh Pooh Mandy. There's a group of.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Twenty of us go to see Am I a Racist?
At Westminster Promenade tonight. I'm sure we'll be laughing a lot.
I can't go see it tonight, but I'm gonna see
if chuckle go with me tomorrow night, because I really
want to see it, and I wanted to do well.
You know, I want to send a message to Hollywood
that if they stop making crap, if they stop ignoring
half the country and just making all this woke garbage
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out of Hollywood that no one wants to see and
give us movies like this, we'll come back, now.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Will we. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I'm the old I fall asleep when I watch a movie,
so I prefer to do that in the comfort of
my own home.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
You're telling me you don't want to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Okay, we actually watched Beetlejuice last weekend to get ready
for Beetlejuice. Beetle Juice, that's an exception. Okay, whenever I
think about woke movies, I think of Disney.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Isn't that sad? Like Disney used to be Disney.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
It used to be where you could take your kids
and your grandmother and everybody to the same movie and
there was never gonna be a single.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Offensive thing in that movie. Now it's like, Okay, do
we have enough trans kids in this movie? Do we
have enough gay people in this movie?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Do we have any gay people making out even in
the background in this movie?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
How can we make this movie more gay? And y'all,
I don't care about someone's sexuality.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I truly don't. So it's not me being anti gay.
It's like, my god, in real life, how many gay
people do you run around in run into on a
daily basis?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Like, I don't know. It's just it's so ridiculous, and
I'm so sad about Disney.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Mandy, ooh, big grass Fire, I seventy in airport, Grant,
let our news team know grass Fire and I seventy
in airport. Let them know some thing. Follow that up, Mandy,
his poor performance. Hannity was saying, how Trump won the debate,
said it today prior to your show, and this might
be why I don't listen to Hannity. I mean, I've
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met Sean Hannity many times, but he's not my favorite broadcaster.
Let me just put it that way. Nice guy, very
you know, nothing bad to say about him, except I
could have told you Sean Hannity was going to say
Trump one in. No, not even the least bit surprising
that he said that. I prefer to be realistic.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I also am not.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
You know, I'm not like thinking that we've all fallen
over alledge here, you know what I mean. I don't
think that this is going to cost Trump the election,
but I'm capable of recognizing a horrible debate performance when
I see it.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And that's what I saw.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Mandy Clutterbug is the overarching system. Each bug is cricket, butterfly,
grasshopper and something else. Good podcast Clutterbug. Her show on
HGTV was called something Else. Yes, that's what I saw.
It was it was that was That was it. It
was something about declutter grant. Are you an organizer or
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is Olivia the organizer?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I am not the organizer.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I want to keep every piece of junk I've ever
accumulated in my life.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Is that an Ohio thing.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I think I got it from my grandmother. But thank
God for Olivia because she keeps our house so organized,
which is.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we also have some other stiff grant.
Do you ever use the scooters downtown or the e
bikes or any of that stuff?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
You ever do that all the time?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Really, Well, you're not.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Lyft is pulling all of their scooters and e bikes
out of downtown.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
They're lackless ones.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
That's because the line ones are better.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Well what is I got to tell you? I hate
all of them? Here's why.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
First of all, last time I was walking downtown, like
four drunk tourists on scooters almost kill me as I'm walking.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, the rule is you don't ride them on the sidewalks.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Well, apparently they don't get the message right, so the
sidewalk with me and almost kill me. And then like
a week later, I'm coming down Spear going toward fourteenth
Not Spear, I'm sorry, I'm coming off of a area
coming towards fourteenth yet little jog worse furious yeah, and
traffic is not moving at all.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And I finally get.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Up and it's one of those flipping scooters in the
middle of the lane and.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
No one stops to get it.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yes, so I stopped my car and got it out
of the lane.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
It's like, what are you people doing? How can no
one get out of the car and move it.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
I will say they are dangerous and burden to a
lot of drivers, but I love them. Like when I
cover the Nuggets or the Avalanche games in the playoffs,
I take a scooter on the bike path right to
the stadium, don't have to deal with any of the traffic.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
So I'm I'm a firm lover of them.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Well, just as an aside here, the number of people
admitted at Enver Health for electric scooter crashes rose from
eighteen people in twenty eighteen to one hundred and fifty
eight people in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
I wouldn't ride them for like the first two years
because one of my best friends wrecked one and had
to go to the er with you know, big old
scrapes down her arm and legs.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So I was. I was scared of them at first,
and now I ride him all the time.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
And now for no apparent reason, because they've gotten no
more safe.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
No not just go there's enough distance between you.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
And her, correct, I forgot about.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The scarring has faded. You can hardly tell. I mean,
just you know, other than that jagged thing over her eye. Fine,
I will.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Say, Man, I had a couple of drinks one night
and wrecked one and it was not It did not
feel good for a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Yeah, I'm too old for that. One of my friends
and I were talking about not getting a horse when.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
We were kids. She's like, you know, you can get
your own horse.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I'm like no, because now it feels like if I
fell off a horse. We're talking actual serious damage, right,
Like when you're young you're like, oh, yeah, I landed
on a fence post. I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well, just asked Mark Johnson. He broke broke his hip
or something falling off a horse? Recent? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Hard pass, hard pass on that. Are we ready for
the news, traffic and weather right now?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
All right, let's do it. Who is Oh, we've got Canaan,
he's in the news room today. What do you got
for me? Interesting poll out? It is a poll.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
According to the Colorado Health Foundation's annual Pulse Survey.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So they surveyed two four hundred and four.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Individuals and out of those, nineteen percent said the cost
of living and inflation are the most important issues facing
the state's. That's a pretty good chunk. That's I mean,
that's almost a fifth of voters. What was the second
second goes hand in hand with the first. Seventeen percent
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named housing affordability as a major issue. Now you put
those together and you're sitting at thirty six percent. That's
pretty significant. And so the economy is absolutely the number
one topic for Coloradon's. By the way, it came up
in other areas, so eleven percent at number three, Government
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and politics, and I don't I'd love to see the
or have the opportunity to do that follow up question
like what do you are you worried about the size
of government? Are you worried about what government is doing
to us? Are you worried about the state of politics today?
That's too big in general for my taste. Then immigration,
a need for immigration reform. This one wasn't even on
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the on the radar in.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The last election cycle.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
And it's not just immigration, it's look, we got to
do something to fix this system. And I agree wholeheartedly
with that. But my position will always be secure the
border first, and at the same time, I know This
sounds so crazy, but at the same time that's happening.
You then come up with a comprehensive plan to renovate, reactivate, modernize,
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and make the cur the new immigration system work for people.
So yeah, public crime and safety came in at seven percent,
Climate change in the environment came in at six percent,
and then economy and jobs comes in at five percent.
So we'll add that to the thirty six percent, and
now we're at forty one percent of Colorado's are worried
about something directly related to the economy.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Taxes four percent, same thing. Water.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
I think only you know in Colorado. That's a huge issue,
very very important issue. That's at four percent. Immigration, crisis
at the border, border security three percent, alcohol, drug use,
opioid crisis two percent, education, roads, social justice, racism all
at two percent, Traffic congestion, and wildfires one percent. So
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it's all about the economy. And right now it's interesting
because people are still they're dealing with the inflation that
we've dealt with for the last three years. Things are
about twenty percent more expensive than they were two years ago.
So even though inflation is down to about two point
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five percent, that's what it was the last time I
saw it, and I believe the Fed is going to
lower interest rates a little bit, but people are still
dealing with that twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Increase, and you have to wonder it would.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Be nice if we had a functioning Republican party here
in the state that could actually, you know, talk about
these different issues, talk about the many ways that the legislature,
since it has been fully controlled by Democrats, has actually
made the cost of living in Colorado much higher. All
of these minimum wage edicts that have come down, they're
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hurting the.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
People by the way that they're supposed to help.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Studies have shown that as minimum wage goes up, minimum
wage workers actually end up getting fewer hours, so they
end up making less money than they did before the
minimum wage increase. We're putting restaurants out of business with this.
Don't even get me started on what the ridiculous new
building edicts are doing to the cost of building a house.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You know, it's like they just don't get it.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
They just allowed our property taxes to skyrocket. They had
four years to fix that problem, four years and they
did nothing, nothing, And now they want to sweep in
After that giant increase went into effect and say, hey,
you know what, We're going to make sure this never
happens again, No way, not on our watch. And we're
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supposed to be grateful, So you know, I don't know
how much people's personal economies are going to go into
the consideration of their vote, but this is one of
those things that as I am trying, and boy, you guys,
I'm keeping my private struggle to myself because I don't
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want to burden you with it. But I am really
struggling with the notion of voting again for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I cannot go on the sidelines and not make a
statement that I I think Kamala Harris would be so
much worse that I am choosing to vote for someone
I really don't like. And I said it the other
day that debate performance was everything I don't like about
Donald Trump, just everything. So yeah, Mandy, I walk everywhere
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I go and I'm always repositioning and moving those damn scooters.
If you're going to use one, I suppose it's fine,
but don't litter the sidewalks and streets with them.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Amen, Thank you, fellow scooter mover.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I agree with that.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
It drives me crazy when there's one in front of
my house on the sidewalk.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Oh, I just it's like just and it's laying on
its side. They're never standing up. It just looks all
willy nilly. I don't like willy nilly. Willy Nilly's not
for me.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So I'm wondering.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
I want to ask you as this. You can hit
the text line at five, six to six, and I
know which concern what concerns you the most when you
are looking at candidates to vote for. What are you
looking for specifically in choosing a candidate? Now, I realize
that I am mostly talking to people who share my viewpoint,
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but I'd.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Like to know what you formulate in your head? What
is the most important issue? What do you want the people.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Who are running for your vote to talk about? Five six,
six nine. Oh, aren't the property taxes in Colorado one
of the lowest in the country, like third lowest?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Right? Not anymore? Not anymore?
Speaker 6 (28:33):
So?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, we were long time ago, long long time ago,
years and year.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I'm just kidding back in your day.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Exactly exactly right, exactly right. Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
So I've got a couple more stories I want to
get to. I'm watching the clock and I want to
make sure I get these in because this story. Immediately
I thought of something. Well, I'll see if you guys
think about it. A lot of people know what adderall is.
Adderall is treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I happened to think that it is probably one of the.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Most misused drugs in high school and college. Grant, what
was your experience with adderall when you were in college.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I knew tons of people that took it and needed it.
I knew more people that took it and didn't need it.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
I took it one time and I thought I was
going to have a heart attack, and I never took
it again.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Adderall is a stimulant, a pretty significant stimulant. But for
people with ADHD, it can actually help them focus, and
it's very effective.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
For people who need it.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
But a lot of college students take it so they
can stay up all night and study for an exam
that they should have studied for for like the two
weeks before that, but they waited till the night before it.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Am I lying right now? This is exactly what's happening.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
But a new study published by the American Journal of
psyche Psychiatry found the Individuals taking high doses of adderall
face more than a fivefold increased risk of developing psychosis
or mania. Key factors include the lack of upper dosing
guidelines and the notable increase in young adults using the
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medication since the COVID nineteen pandemic because now they can
get them from telemedicine providers. Right, So, what they were
seeing was a lot of people in the Boston area
coming in without much of a psychiatric history that developed
a like an episode of psychosis or mania in the
context of using those prescription stimulants.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So the first thing I think of is school shooters,
you know, I think of these kids that are going
nuts and shooting up a school.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
It's like, how many kids are on these medications? How
many kids could take too many of these medications? You know,
it's freaky, I am. You know, I realized that some
people cannot function without these meds, and I don't want them,
you know, I don't want them to not be able
to get the help they need.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
But the reality is is I do believe that these
are the most abused drugs on college campuses, and if
this is a potential.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Outcome, they need to be spreading the message. Not that
it'll change anything, but it's kind of interesting listen to this.
For their investigation, they reviewed the electronic health records of
people sixteen to thirty five admitted it Mass General Brigham
Hospitals between two thousand and five and twenty nineteen. That's
the typical onset age range for psychosis or losing touch
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with reality. The research identified a little over thirteen hundred
individuals experiencing their first episode of psychosis or mania and
compared them to about three thousand control patients.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
By analyzing Adderall use.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
During the previous month and adjusting for other variables like
substance use, they were able to specifically determine the impact
of the stimulants. If they had taken Adderall, they were
two point six eight times more likely to have been
hospitalized with psychosis armania compared to those who were not,
and it increased to five point two eight times more
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likely at higher doses and forty.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Milligrams and above. So there you go. I mean, and
we're giving this stuff to kids. By the way, we're
giving it to kids, and again, some people really need it.
But I hope that we're over the over medication of
our kids because when the boys were in.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
High school, so in the nineties, the nineties felt like
peak medicate your kids. I doubt the nineties were absolutely like,
Oh your kid has.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
ADHD, you need to get them on medication.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
You know, everybody wanted to medicate your kid, and I
just wonder, like, what are we doing long term with that? Anyway,
another very interesting story that is on the blog today.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
A guy goes into a.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Part of New York that is primarily Orthodox shoes and
he starts to talking to Orthodox Jews about who they're
voting for in the election. And I found this really
interesting because secular Jews are going to probably vote Democrat,
as they reliably do. And when I say secular Jews,
(33:14):
that is not in any way a negative. It is
not a disparagement. It is simply the fact that there
are many people who are Jewish who don't necessarily practice
the faith religiously pun intended. And Orthodox Jews, of course,
are much more religious. They are deeply religious. And to
a person that he spoke with the they're.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Vote for Trump.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
And it's not a reflexive answer, and it has nothing
to do with Israel.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
In most of the cases, it's fascinating. It's about five
minutes long. That is at the bottom of the blog today. Okay,
let me get these in. I asked you, what do
you do? How do you find your how do you
make your decisions? Mandy? My property taxes went up six
hundred bucks a month.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
It's killing me. And the relief I get is sixty
dollars less a month. That's nothing.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Correct. How much is Jared polus net worth? Four hundred million?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
He's out of touch with our struggles, says this text message, Mandy,
what does it matter who you vote for in Colorado?
Because doesn't all of our electoral vote go to whoever
California votes for. No, that never went into effect.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
The what was that?
Speaker 5 (34:28):
The Compact of States? What was it called? It was
so stupid, It was just so dumb. It was just
it was the dumbest thing ever. And it only happened
because Trump won. Now if Trump wins again, expected to
rear its ugly. He had noticed it's been nowhere during
the Biden administration. Nowhere it does matter to me who
(34:49):
I vote for. Though, it matters to me that if
the Harris administration turns into the economic dumpster fire that
I think it will. I want to be able to
tell my kids, I voted against her. I voted for
the candidate that had the best chance.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Of meeting her.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
I did my part. I knew it in the grand
scheme of things. It was a symbolic vote. But it's
a symbolic vote that matters, you know, Mandy. The main
thing for anyone to consider when selecting a candidate is
big corporation fiscal responsibility.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Okay, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
I heard one local city building code committee was looking
at making residential sprinklers a required for new build single
family homes.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Are you talking about like for fires? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
I don't know if that's fire suppression on the house
or in the lawn. I look at someone who's a
strong leader and doesn't change their position to get votes.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Who is that magical person?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Because I can tell you every single politician has changed
position on something in order to get elected. Maybe not
Rand Paul, maybe not Thomas Massey, but boy, they are
so few and far in between, Mandy. I pick candidates
based in liberty and world peace.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Many secular Jews are attorneys and are desperately afraid of
tort reform, true, Mandy, My son.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Took adderall in fifth grade for ADHD.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
After one week, he told me that every day in
school he wanted to kill everyone, stop the drug, and
homeschool the rest of the year. He's now thirty and
perfectly fine, and more importantly, textter his classmates are alive.
Good good, good job, Mandy. A vote isn't a Valentine.
I'm not professing to love. I'm not professing my love
for the person, but rather a chess match about how
(36:39):
the country should be run. I don't care about personality,
personal life, but policies, and if they're.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Part of the cabal or not.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
For me, that's trump on most policies. There you go, girls,
mask ADHD symptoms.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
They do.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
America has an addiction to both illegal and legal drugs. Headache, overweight,
hyper depressed, and back pain.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Isn't adderall a lab made methamphetamine prescribed by a doctor. Yes,
kind of Mandy. Imagine being on adderall and testosterone. No, no, no, no, no, no, yep, Mandy,
per your conversation about drunk scooter drivers illegally on sidewalks
trying to mow you down. Seems like a good time
for a hero. Twenty twenty oh my gosh. I was
(37:25):
supposed to call my guy from Euro twenty twenty today
and I totally forgot because the schedule got me so
jacked up.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Okay, if one of your freaking listener shoots me with
a Hero twenty twenty, we're going to have a pot.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Have you seen those things? They're super cool?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, and I think it would still hurt very bad.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Well, it does. It leaves a mark, as they say,
it leaves a mark. So let me do what I'll
reschedule him, like dang it, we're to talk.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
There's a big gun show coming on this weekend and
he's there, and I wanted to do a little preview
of that. But no, the Hero twenty twenty is awesome
and it's I don't know. I don't want to do
commercial right now, especially when I want to get one
more story from the blog today and this is very quickly.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
This blows my mind.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
So again, I want to remind you of something back
in I don't know, some hundred number year Hippocrates said,
the guy that the Hippocratic oath is named after, said
all disease begins in the gut. So just remember that
as I tell you this next story. A new study
shows that there is a relationship between abdominal fat and
(38:28):
widespread muscular musculoskeletal pain.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
They don't know why, and it's all kinds of fat.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
If you have higher levels of abdominal fat, you have
greater odds of reporting chronic pain overall, and we're more
likely to have pain in multiple sites like neck, back, hips.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
And knees.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
The connection between fat and pain appears to be stronger
in women than men. So fascinating story. You can read
that on the uh on the blog today?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Do we have do we have?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Who's in? Ryan?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Who's a rod your favorite producer?
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Where's he? Where's he right now? Wait? Uh? Wait? What's happening?
What's happening anyway? Grant? Hello? Hello? Oh there you go. Okay,
this is gonna be interesting because you're where are you
right now? A rod Well?
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I am at Sam's Number three in Glendale. I am
here playing engineer. I've taken off my producer cap today
here with koa Sports, Ryan and Al are gonna be
here at sam Zumber three and Glendale until six. We're
gonna be registering some people to win some sign broncos
merchan and have the show right here from the from
the SAMs number three and Glendale having some fun nice.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
Okay, So it's gonna be interesting because we're on two
separate feeds right now, we're gonna see here and now
it's time for the most exciting segment on.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
The radio of It's gone it.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Uh, give me the mic back, Gosh, I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah,
keep working on it.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Their chief all right. What is our dad joke of
the day?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Dad joke of the day.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Well, I was going to tell a sodium joke, but
then I thought, nah, oh that's funny periodic joke.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Yeah that's a good one. Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Get that, but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
What is our word of the day? Please?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Word of the day is a verb. It is bratternize.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Oh that means to hang out with someone, to.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Mix something, visualize.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
You guys got it?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
All right, Joe, here's trivia question today. What was what
was teelor what was Taylor.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
Swift's debut single, released in two thousand and six when
she was a teenager.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Wasn't that Shake It Off?
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Oh say, tear drops on my guitar?
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Nope, nope, nope, that would be thankfully, Jim.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
McGraw has its name to yes tribute to Tim McGraw.
There you go back when Taylor Smith was Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Okay, what's our Jeopardy category?
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Please grant Jeopardy category for today? Classic television? Okay, I
got a chance, You got a chance?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Classic television? Okay, here we go.
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Will Smith lived with his aunt and uncle in a pod. Mandy,
what is the Fresh Prince of bel Air?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
That's classic television?
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Classic? He'y years old?
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Sick? You see, Mandy when you get older?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Stop it? Why didn't you just drive a dagger through
my heart instead? Jeez, Louise, It's like.
Speaker 6 (41:39):
When I hear Green Day on the classic rock station. Gosh,
now you've heard us. Nineteen sixty four saw the premieres
of both The Adams Family and this show also named
Man the Monsters.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Correct. Okay, Rod, do you play in today? Or what
I am?
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Here?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I get to blame the delay.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
This show about the Korean War won only one Emmy.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
What is mass?
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Correct? Three zero bard.
Speaker 6 (42:09):
Beginning in nineteen seventy eight, Bill Bixby took no Shanny.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
What is the Hulk? The Incredible Hulk?
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:16):
I know, I love the clue?
Speaker 6 (42:18):
There took no shirt after getting angry on this show?
All right, last one A footnote to history. Magician Fred
Kapps followed the Beatles on his February ninth, sixth, nineteen
sixty four show, Freddy Mandy, who is Ed Sullivan? Correct
a Klean, I'm really sweet?
Speaker 2 (42:36):
She's five enough sweet to me. This is why I host,
This is.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Why I don't let this white and blow.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
This is why I'm taking off my producer cat today
and again engineering the great gentleman Ryan and big al
Ka Sports.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
Who's coming to see you as SAMs number three in
Glendale today?
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Am I not enough?
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Who's saying? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Ryan? You have any guests today? Anyone coming on the
show today? Lots of guests. Who you got, man? It's
as We've got Brandon Jones Broncos Safety, We've got Rick Lewis,
color voice at the Broncos on KOA.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Previous, and we also.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Have someone coming on to a preview the Steelers upcoming matchups.
So all coming out down right here in Glendale. The
Sam's number three until six again. Come by. You can
register in the witness I'm Broncos signed merch. Pretty cool,
Meet Ryan, meetal meet me, meet the whole crew.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Say what's up exactly.
Speaker 5 (43:24):
That's all happening now. We'll be back with the full
show tomorrow. Keep it right here on KOA
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