09-23-24 FULL SHOW - It's A This And That Sort of Monday

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
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Speaker 4 (00:18):
Niceyaynyn Keith sadding Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Monday edition
of the show.

Speaker 5 (00:30):
Hello everyone, It's Monday, Monday.

Speaker 6 (00:36):
I had too much fun this weekend. I did too
many things my age, Anthony. I need, like, you know,
time off.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
To recuperate, recover, need to hybrid. Yeah. So, actually, Chuck
and I made.

Speaker 6 (00:49):
A rule yesterday, the new family rule. Nothing on Sunday.
Sunday is family Day. We actually had a really nice
time yesterday with two friends of ours who came over
to give us some advice on our sad lands.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
So it's that bad of a hangout.

Speaker 6 (01:02):
No, it was actually a good hangout. But by this morning,
I was like, oh my god, I'm kind of exhausted.
We went and saw Billy Gardell on Saturday night, ay Ron.
At one point Chuck was laughing so hard that he
was laughing but there's no noise coming out of his
mouth because.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
There was no air left in his lungs.

Speaker 6 (01:18):
Oh my god, Billy Gardell, you guys, he has not
missed a bait in all those years doing television, especially
for gen xers.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Oh my god, it was just hilarious, hilarious. So if
you have a chance to see him.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
I don't know if he's coming to any of the
other clubs around this area, but definitely go see him
because holy Macaroni, funny, funny, funny. Anyway, but I did,
I packed too much stuff into this weekend and before
we go on this, I'm gonna have this, and this
is gonna make me sound so old.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
Okay, I know this. I know it's gonna make me
sound old. I don't care.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
So I had to take my daughter homecoming dress shopping.
And my daughter one of the things that she has
got for me that I am perfectly okay.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
With is she is very modest, right.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
She is not one of those girls who wants to
walk around with all of her bits hanging out.

Speaker 7 (02:08):
She's just not that kid.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
So we go looking for a homecoming dress. I walk
into the quote homecoming dress section and I was like, no, no, no,
this is where the hookers shop. Where do the girls.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
Shop for homecoming dresses?

Speaker 6 (02:21):
Because these are all if you're work in the streets,
These dresses were this big there's no way girls could
sit down in those dresses without their butt cheeks hitting
the seat because.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
They're all so short. They all have cutouts. I mean,
it was like it was like the dresses that strippers
wear out to.

Speaker 6 (02:40):
The main stage before they take them off, and that's
all there is. It was insane, and I was thinking
to myself, like, where do the people who don't want
their the JJ's hanging out shop? Where are those people?
It took us a lot of searching. We did find
a super cute dress that is not old, not old
fashioned or like old ladyish, but it actually.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
Covers you know, the right exactly. He doesn't have a
high ruffled collar or anything like that. Of course, set
she was comfortable in it. She put it on and said, okay,
well color.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
It's like a really cool floral, like a purple floral pattern.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
It's really really cute. Now, is she going with friends
or with a date? Just with her friends? Are they
all matching colors at least?

Speaker 7 (03:24):
No?

Speaker 5 (03:24):
No, no, no, they're all just they're all doing their
own thing.

Speaker 6 (03:26):
But they're all wearing their converse high tops with their dresses,
you know, which is good. Last year she said, I
want to wear heels, and I was like, you are
going to regret this. I'm here to tell you as
your mother, nobody, nobody likes wearing heels after the first
ten seconds that you have them on. She had them
on for approximately ten seconds, and when she came home,
she said, next year, I'm wearing my Converse high tops.

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So that's we learned a lesson about that. But I'm like,
good god, you guys like these these outfits. I mean,
these are girls that are like thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years old.
Now I realized when you're a senior, you could be seventeen,
you could be eighteen. That's a little bit different. But
my goodness, I was flabbergasted. Mandy, So you bought her

(04:10):
a gunnysack. No, I didn't, but I would have if
it was available. I would have anyway.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
No, I was just I was kind of shocked by that.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
I was like, what the what the heck is happening
with these clothes, Marca, I don't know. We talked about
her fashion aesthetic too, because I was like, I don't
know what to look for for you because I don't
know what you like. And she said, Mom, I think
I'm really gravitating towards the old money aesthetic. And I
was like, fine, perfect, that's Ralph Lauren. That's conservative. I

(04:41):
can do that all day long. So we're working on
her aesthetic. Kids don't have a look. When I was
a kid, it was like, oh, what's your look?

Speaker 7 (04:47):
Right?

Speaker 5 (04:48):
Like, what vibe are you going for? And I grew
up in a redneck town, and.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
I never dressed like the other kids in my school.
I'm no fashion plate, but I know what I like,
and I like what I like, and.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
So I always just wore what I liked. You did,
You're a fashion plate? Oh yeah, see, I was not well.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
I was in the sense that, like I would go
down to visit my aunt in Fort Lauderdale in the
summer and I would go to like the discount stores
down there and buy all.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
This cool clothing that.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
They didn't even have where I lived in Northern Florida,
and I wear that, And I never looked like anybody else.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
I always wore what I wanted to wear.

Speaker 8 (05:20):
Mine was I easily could have left high school and
gone to some rock goth emo concert.

Speaker 6 (05:25):
Oh wow, yeah, can we just say this, You know,
the emo look is a really coming back, like herd
eacut baby.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
Well, here's the thing.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
I realized this about emo kids because I a lot
of my friends were emo kids. But emo was not
quite as emo as it was when you were young.
It was like the beginning, it was more like punk
rock kind of slid into emo. So I was in
the park between safety pins on your jacket and the
wide you know, like straight legged pants with the wallet
chain and the black hair and the black eyeliner.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
I was like in between those two things. But I
said this to a friend of mine.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
Nobody ever looks at an emo could and goes, wow,
that kid must be happy.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
I say, just don't. But you were probably a happy
kid who was an emo kid. Yeah, let's go with that. Well,
I'll stop. I hated high school. Mandy. Did you really bullied?

Speaker 7 (06:16):
I guess.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Time. But you survived. That's what made me develop the inside. Yeah,
there you go. Nothing was going for me on the outside.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah, Mandy. And my daughter had to order her dresses
online and have them modified by a seamstress. Thank god
those days are over.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
Now she's busy sitting in her dorm room watching Disney
movies and eating brownies while her roommate is out parting
at front parties, laughing my butt off.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
Mandy. The dress shopping isn't surprising.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
My son's school, Private changed their dress code this year
to disallow girls wearing skirts. Some of them got so
short they needed two haircuts. And this is the thing
I'm just gonna say it. You guys, parents, Where are you?

Speaker 5 (06:59):
Moms? Where are you?

Speaker 8 (07:02):
Where are you?

Speaker 5 (07:03):
This is what I don't understand. Somebody just asked, what
the hell is emo? Define it? Anthony? Well, I turned
the air down in I I don't even think I
can define EMO.

Speaker 8 (07:13):
I mean it is essentially, it's the punk rock, it's
the gothic. It's just a little bit extra and I
think it's just the added extra level is when you
call it emo. And now, I mean, I guess technically
if you say emo, it's a little darker because it's.

Speaker 6 (07:28):
Its the kids that were always into the like really
emotionally sort of powerful music, whether it was angry rock
or it was the sort of angsty, emotional based rock.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
Back in the day, and they tend to gravitate towards black.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
They tend to be the kids that, like a Rod,
were struggling in high school. They didn't fit in they
didn't feel like they belonged, and this was their way
of standing out in some way.

Speaker 8 (07:53):
So that was the emo curve, which is ironic aus
looking back at it now, Like most people always say,
like you you you are bullied and you were email,
I was like, yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:05):
Relentlessly upbeat is how I would describe you. Now, you
are relentlessly upbeat. So it is partially probably because you
had to deal with crap in high school that you
are relentlessly.

Speaker 8 (08:14):
Upbeating correct and now nothing that that's where nothing phases
me comes from.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
Well, yeah, and doing a job. It's like nothing phases matter,
that's no big deal. I was talking to a friend
of mine about something that had upset them, and it
was I was trying to be compassionate, but at the
same time, I just wanted to look at her and go, dude,
you're you're a grown up and you're letting this stuff
bother you. It's it's amazing to me how much little

(08:40):
crap that doesn't matter we allow into our psyche every day.
But I'm gonna put some crap into your psyche right
now by reading the blog. It's Monday, and there wasn't
an overarching story because I'm trying not to just hammer
the election. It seems like that's all that people are
talking about. So I really did a deep dive today
to try to find stuff that I thought was interesting.
Some of it is election related, but not all of it.

(09:01):
Find the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the headline that says nine to twenty three
twenty four blog. It's this and that sort of Monday.
Click on that, and here are the headlines you will
find within.

Speaker 8 (09:15):
I think with someone's in office, half of American allerships
and clipments of say that's going to press.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Pledge today, I'm the blog.

Speaker 6 (09:21):
Please pay attention to the Board of Education race. The
first gentleman wants.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
More wolf laws.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
Get to know what's on the ballot. Say dot isn't
even pretending to care about Rhodes anymore. A tale of
two cities on homelessness. This as even San Francisco has
had enough. Israel is surgically taking out Hasbala leadership. What
the heck, Grand Lake, we don't have enough cops in
Denver A college chancellor Suo's to be able to keep

(09:47):
making porn sex parties for me arrest for the scrolling
hot oh hang On speaking of free speech violations, the
many accidents of Kamala Harris. Did she mean it then
or does she mean it now? How to win arize
the outside of your home? Things parents hate doing with
their kids. Bo Nicks finally jogs off a winner. What

(10:09):
foods are too expensive and overrated? Trump On Gutfeld drew
massive ratings. Interesting facts about aspens for the first time ever,
young men outnumber young women at church. A trial for
Newsmax's future start soon. And most Americans don't believe the
elections will be fair and honest. Now those are the
headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Mandy describing

(10:35):
EMO is like Mandy describing homelessness, not even remotely the same.
EMO kids weren't mentally ill or drug addicted. They were
teenagers struggling through a difficult time and trying to express
themselves in a way that made them stand out. That
has nothing to do with homelessness. Fair, I don't think so.
I mean, we all so much of our teenage years

(10:56):
are spent trying to figure out how to fit in
and yet stand out at the same time.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
Right, isn't that what too much of teenagehood is about.

Speaker 8 (11:07):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (11:08):
Ali Sheety's character in Breakfast Club was, in my opinion,
considered emo attitudinally. Absolutely, but she dressed more like a
homeless person than an EMO person. Mandy, I have two
sons of freshmen in college. This is all from our
common Spirit health text line. You can always text us
by texting five sixty six ' nine to oher. You
just put that in where the you know, the phone

(11:29):
number usually goes five six six nine oh when you
send them. Mandy, I have two friends or two sons
in freshmen in college and a sophomore in high school.
My oldest son's first homecoming date had a dress that
had less material than a pair of winter socks. I
was told her dress was on the modest side comparatively.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
What are we doing? What are we doing?

Speaker 6 (11:53):
Stop it, Mandy. Do you're describing goss Goss and Emo.
There's a lot of overlapping if you do it vendagram,
there's a lot of overlap in Goth and Emo.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
I mean, I'm not sure there's much separation.

Speaker 8 (12:07):
There is, and I probably trended more towards god Goth. Yeah, okay,
probably I've.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Always I've always considered them very much the.

Speaker 8 (12:13):
Same I was up in the fields is as much
as you would describe as in the EMAO category, So yeah,
probably more more goth.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah yeah, good old day. Yeah, Mandy.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
My wife is a longtime school counselor and I've attended
many a prom and homecoming with her as chaperones. The
only thing a forty three year old male can do
is stare straight at the floor.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
And this is you know what. I'm glad you brought
that up, sir, because that's a big part of this.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
We want to get mad at boys for doing inappropriate things,
and then we have girls walking around with their a
jjys hanging out at homecoming. I mean, you, guys, there's
gotta be some sense boys. Boys brains don't fully developed
till they're like twenty five, right. Your prefrontal cortex is
not fully developed until you're twenty five years old.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
And if you boys in a situation where.

Speaker 6 (13:01):
They're thinking with the brain that is below the belt,
that is a recipe for disaster.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
And that's how I feel like what we've done. And
don't give me the girls should be able to wear
whatever they want, Yes they should, and we should also
be able to just get money by picking it off trees.

Speaker 6 (13:17):
But that's not the reality of the world we live in.
Come on, Come on, people. Hot topic patrons are the
definition of emo. Got this shop at hot topic as well.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, a lot of my money was spent at hot time.
Hot topic. You got you gotta say, like, whoever whoever
started hot Topic the store in the mall, Like I
guess it was like sitting around one day they were.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
Like, Hey, you know what, we should make a store
like Spencers, only with more clothes specifically designed for kids who.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
Would normally go to the mall.

Speaker 6 (13:50):
But we're gonna bring him to the mall because they're
gonna want to buy all the stuff that we have
in our store because they can't find it anywhere else,
and we're gonna overcharge for all of it.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
And they were like genius.

Speaker 8 (13:59):
Facts still still hands down some of the best graphic
teasing can buy an any store by creative, fun, humorous
and shirts.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
Oh yeah, I don't know the last time I stepped
foting a hot topic. Yeah, I get a little like
a twitch. You can't feel here's the problem though. You
walk in and now everybody's like, dude, what's the old man?

Speaker 5 (14:20):
Doing in here. It's kind of creepy. He's like creeping
on us. Yeah, that's what I don't add. All fit
and like I used to no, no, no, no, no, no,
you do not.

Speaker 6 (14:27):
Now I have some great videos on the blog today.
I have one of the mini accents of Kamala Harris,
which is fun. I have that fun video of cam No,
I don't didn't put that on the blog, but I
did put the video of Kamala Harris saying that she
as as the Attorney General of California, that yeah, you
can be a perfectly safe, legal gun owner, but that

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won't stop I'll play it for you in a little bit.
That won't stop them from coming in your house to
check and see if you're safe enough.

Speaker 5 (14:54):
Of course, no one will actually ask her about that.

Speaker 6 (14:57):
And if they do ask her about that, she'll say,
you know, when I grew up in a middle class family,
everyone cared about their lawns and my mother had to
save up for a house, and our best friend she
had a small business. And that no, won't answer the question,
will not answer the question. Because this is what we're
gonna do until election day. Kamala Harris is gonna be
asked questions. She's gonna blather on about her middle class

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upbringing and not answer a single one, and nobody in the.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Press is gonna press.

Speaker 6 (15:24):
Her on that because they want to make sure they
have access when she becomes president.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
What makes them think they're gonna have access when they
don't have.

Speaker 6 (15:31):
Access now before she's president. That what kills me about
the Democratic strategy which is going to be successful.

Speaker 5 (15:39):
I fear, I very much fear, is that.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
The Democrats have decided that they don't have to be
accountable to anyone while campaigning. They started it during Joe
Biden's campaign for the Basement. But then when Joe Biden
looked like he was gonna lose without going to the
people the Democrats whould already vot for Joe Biden, they
decided that they were gonna go ahead and change the
candidate and let's just move on and talk about how

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popular she has. And the press just was like, oh
my god, what a great candidate. Kamala Harris say is
we love her?

Speaker 5 (16:11):
Can't wait?

Speaker 6 (16:12):
And now Kamala Harris she sat down with Oprah and
could not be specific about.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
Any of her policy positions.

Speaker 6 (16:21):
I watched like twenty minutes of that over the weekend,
and I was like, I'm out, she is not ready
to be president of the United States.

Speaker 5 (16:29):
And you know what, as much as I.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
Fear for our economy if her dumbass plans ever come
to fruition and her tax plan, her tax plan of
taxing unrealized capital gains is the biggest piece of dumb.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
Assy I have ever seen in my life.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
And don't come at me and say it's only for
people with four kids over a certain amount of money,
because guess what, my friends, guess what. Do you remember
when the income tax first started, it was only for
the top one percent?

Speaker 5 (17:00):
How did that work out for us? Now? Huh?

Speaker 6 (17:02):
They get you used to the idea and then they
expand it to everyone. But I'm more concerned about what
happens around the world. When we get back, we're going
to talk about something in the state that matters very,
very very much, the Board of Education. There are a
lot of races in this and the Board of Education
is the group that just decided to teach six year

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olds about sex work in the social studies standards. We
have to get new people on this board, and we
got to get the right people on this board. I'm
going to talk to Christy Burton Brown about it right
after this. The Board of Education in Colorado has done
some stuff as of late that I am super unhappy about.
And there are some races happening right now that could
be significant and actually have the potential to significantly shift

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the tone and tenor of the Board of Education. And
joining me now is Christy Burton Brown. She's running in
the fourth district for the Board of Education.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
And Christy, it's good to talk to you again whilecome back.

Speaker 7 (18:01):
Thank you so much, Mandy. Great to be here.

Speaker 6 (18:02):
I want to start with why you are running for
the Board of Education and a deeper question on that,
why is it critical that we get people.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
Like you on the Board of Education? Sure?

Speaker 7 (18:16):
The main reason I'm running to the Board of Education
is I am extremely passionate about education. I think children's
lives matter. Anyone who knows me knows I've done a
lot of pro life work. I think what happens to
kids after their board also matters. Education is a key
to success, having different educational opportunities that meet the unique
needs of our children. You just simply can't have generations

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of success if you don't get that right. So I
think that one of the reasons people like me need
to be on the board. For one thing, I'm a
parent of current school age children, and I'm a constitutional attorney,
so I'm going to be really focused on defending parental
rights on that board. And I'm also extremely committed to
school choice both as a right for people here in

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Colorado and is an idea that transforms our education system
when we lean into it heavily.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
So let me ask about the power of the Board
of Education, because this is another thing that people don't understand.
We all have our local boards of education right Each county,
age district, whatever has their own boards. What exactly is
the Board of Education and Colorado responsible for?

Speaker 7 (19:20):
Sure a lesson some people might think, and I actually
think that's why it should be. I believe in a
lot of local control. I know there's a lot of
school districts in CD four, which is where I'd represent
that don't want to stay coming in and telling them
how to run their rural school or their school in
Douglas County that serves a lot of conservative parents. What
the state Board of Education does do is it oversees

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some basic standards. When you look at social studies, science,
other subjects it here's charter school appeals. I think that's
one of the key parts of what it does. It
also has some accountability work that it has to do,
approving licenses and a few other accountability things that it does.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
Over the state. They also have.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
Been instrumental in approving some curriculums that I am not
happy about.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
How does that process work?

Speaker 9 (20:07):
Sure?

Speaker 7 (20:07):
And so every so many years they evaluate like social
study standards, science standards, and there are certain kinds of
curriculum that fulfill those standards or not. But the Stateboard
Education actually cannot require the different local districts to use
particular curriculum. Curriculum is decided on a local level. The
big question is does a particular curriculum the district light

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want to use, does that fit within the standards the
state board has set. I think sometimes those standards are
something that parents need to speak into more conservatives need
to speak into, because when those standards go awry, then
you can see really good, solid curriculum not meeting those standards,
and that would be the way that a local board
might not be able to choose it.

Speaker 6 (20:49):
So, when you want to be a part of the
Board of Education, what are the parts of those responsibilities.
Are you the most focused on passionate about? What would
you describe your area of concentration.

Speaker 7 (21:02):
I think two things I'd like to focus on the
most are parental rights and school choice. We see a
recent law in Colorado allowing teachers and school officials counselors
to work with kids to let them change their pronouns
at school, but not tell the parents. And that's just
like one issue that I think gets a lot of
attention because the subject matter. Let's go behind the actual

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topic and say, this is an example of how government
tried to insert itself in between parents and children, and
we see that constantly in the education system. So thing
people on boards that supervise the education system need to
be on the side of parents and children and bringing
parents and kids together, not inserting government in the middle
of that. Secondly, school choice, we will be hearing appeals

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from districts that reject charter schools. I think too often,
good solid charter schools that have waiting lists of parents
hundreds of kids who want to go to the school
are denied at the local and state level many times
because the overseeing charter network is accused of being conservative,
like right fail network and that's really wrong. And if

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we can't change it, because we will be in the
minority on the state Board of Education as conservative, we
absolutely should draw attention to it and highlight that kind
of discrimination, and it is.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
It's very discriminatory, and it's upsetting to me because Colorado
was a leader in the nation in charter school development.
And I mean maybe people who live here don't realize that,
but Colorado was looked to as a beacon of how
to do charter schools, right right, I mean, you had
opportunities for kids who were thriving in their neighborhood schools
to stay there. You have opportunities for kids who want

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a different learning experience to go to charter schools. And
everybody was happy and it was working really well. But
I think part of the problem is Kelly. When you look,
especially at our recent test scores statewide, charter schools are
outperforming traditional public schools and this has the teachers unions
up in arms because the last thing they want to
do is have to compete. Buttea has actually been proven

(23:02):
to elevate all the schools, not just charter schools, So
I'm with you. That is incredibly concerning to me.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
So there's an art.

Speaker 7 (23:10):
Oh, go ahead, No, I'm just going to agree with
you and say seven of the ten highest ranked high
schools in Colorado are charter schools. Yeah, And I mean
the evidence is in the numbers and what's actually working
for kids. And I think the teacher's union comes in
and they're concerned with their own salaries, their own goals,
their own control honestly over students and parents a lot

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of times instead of saying which types of schools are
actually working for kids. The average neighborhood public school is
the rate of kids who are able to read and
write and do math a great level. Only forty percent
of them can do it statewide.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
That's a huge problem, and in some urban areas like Denver,
it's way lower, especially for kids of colors.

Speaker 7 (23:47):
Average.

Speaker 6 (23:48):
Yeah, So, I mean there is a great article in
Colorado Politics that sort of lays out a lot of
the different candidates and it gives a really good sort
of feel for what candidate says, especially about things like
parental rights. And I want to direct people to please
read this because Christie's running in District four, but there
are other races that are happening right now. And as

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Christy said, even if all the Conservatives win, which in
some districts is a really long long shot, they're still
not going to have control of the Board of Education,
but they will be able to slow the role or
make the argument cogently to protect our charter schools and
to protect you know, students and their relationships with their parents.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
That for me, those two things alone are all that
matters out of this race for me.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
And I appreciate that you have decided to step in
and make your voice heard on this, Christy, and I'm
glad that you are one of the people running for
this What what would you say if people are in
District four and the district's mirror the congressional districts?

Speaker 5 (24:47):
Correct?

Speaker 7 (24:48):
Correct?

Speaker 6 (24:48):
Okay, I wanted to make sure I knew what I
was talking about before I said that, Yes, But what
would you say? Why should people vote for you in
District four.

Speaker 7 (24:57):
If people want to advocate for their rights parents and
advocate for the best educational opportunities for their children, and
we don't believe that one size fits all, We don't
want the teachers union to control everything we do in Colorado.
That is the kind of voice I will be for
people on the state Board of Education. And I also
think the point that my kids right now, they're eleven
and thirteen years old. I am in the thick of

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it right now making sure my kids get educated. There's
not a single person currently on the State Board of
Education who has school aged children. That's another problem I
think we need to fix on that board.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
Oh wow, I had no idea. I mean, don't get
me wrong. I think people who don't have kids in
the schools now have more time to do this stuff.
But there's so many things.

Speaker 6 (25:38):
We were actually just talking about this on the show,
like what's happening for kids today is so dramatically different
then even what happened for my producer. And god, I mean,
I haven't been in school since nineteen eighty seven, so
it's been a lot since then. So yeah, I do
think being in the classrooms and seeing what's going on
is probably very, very helpful. And Christy Burton Brown and recommending,

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I'm not endorsing you, because my endorsement is a kiss
of death, but I will be recommending if you care
what I'm going to do. I'm going to be voting
for Christy Burton Brown on the fourth, So I appreciate you.
I put a link to her website. If you want
to find out more, you can do that there. If
you would like to donate money, you could do that there.
Whatever you want to do is find with me. But Christy,
I appreciate you making time.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
For me today. All right, have a great day. That
is Christy Burton Round. She is rock solid.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
And I am, you know, as the parent of a
former charter school kid who recognizes that.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
My daughter's been in both traditional public schools and charter schools.

Speaker 6 (26:36):
She got to go to a very small elementary school
that we initially loved, and then the principal left and
it just did not go the way we wanted to
go with the new leadership, and so we moved over
to American Academy and it was a really strong education,
really strong, so much so that when she got to

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her freshman year, she was like, Mom, I'm I'm relearning
things that I learned in sixth grade, not even seventh grade,
like sixth grade. So I know the power of a
great charter school, and I want parents to have all
the options on the table. If your kid is thriving
in a neighborhood school, then that is fantastic. I want
them to continue to thrive. But if your kid is not,

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I want you to have options. And I think every
parent should want their kid to have the best option
that works for them and their family.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
The jury has reached a verdict. Did they just get
the case on Friday in the Boulder King super Shooter.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
I believe they did. They got the case on Friday.
They have already reached a verdict. My guess is is
that they're going to find him guilty of all charges,
or they're going to find him not guilty by reason
of insanity of any charges.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
And I got to tell you after.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
Seeing the coverage, and obviously I didn't watch the trial
because I'm doing the show when the trial is on.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
This guy, to me is clearly mentally ill. He was
severely mentally.

Speaker 6 (27:58):
Ill when he shot up King Soopers, and I wouldn't
be surprised. But it's a hard standard to meet Legally,
it's not a no big deal standard to meet when
you say not guilty by reason of insanity.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
There's a lot of hoops that have to be jumped through.
But I do think that his team, especially demonstrated very
well of how significantly mentally ill he was, and so
we're gonna find out at one twenty five. We are
going to break for the news. Keenan. We're going to
break a little early.

Speaker 6 (28:31):
Maybe Keenan will start the news, and then we will
dip in to the sentence, not the sensing, to the
verdict at one twenty five or whenever they start. They
should start in that timeframe. Obviously, this is a horrible
situation and an awful crime, and we'll get some kind
of the beginning of resolution today, as the sentencing won't

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happen for some time. He could be if he's found
guilty by reason of insanity. I think he is remanded
to a mental health facilit that is capable of dealing
with criminally insane people. But apparently he's on medication now,
and as long as someone who is schizophrenic, assuming they

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respond positively to the medication at all, some people who
are severely mentally ill do not respond to the medication.
But if he seems to have responded to the medication,
as long as he's on medication, he's not going to
be a danger to himself or anyone else around him.
The problem is is that when people who are medicated
and mentally severely mentally ill. When they are left to

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their own devices, they decide that they're well now, so
they don't need the medication anymore because the medication has
very can have very unpleasant side effects, so they stop
taking the medication, and the whole you know, Gerbil wheel
starts again. And it's just a really tragic situation. And
when we got away from institutional care in the nineteen

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seventies and eighties, this is what happened, and this is
why our prisons have become our mental institutions.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
The streets have become our mental institutions.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
And it's time to start having significant conversations about large
government investments in secure facilities for people that are incapable
of living with reality.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
And I don't want some horrible place where people are.

Speaker 6 (30:21):
Walking around just you know, in agony, you know, I
want them to be treated with dignity and good care.
But we have to realize there are people that have
mental illnesses that are so significant they're not ever going
to be able to live independently and take care of themselves.
And I don't know what percentage of the population that is,
but it's not nothing.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
So we will do that. At one twenty five, just
check in.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
We'll go to the news a little bit early at
maybe twenty two or twenty three, so Keenan can get ready,
and then we will join that in progress. But man,
this has been a long, long road to get here
because the trial was delayed for many, many months because
this gentleman was not able to participate in his own
defense because he was not mentally stable.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
Incredibly incredibly sad.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
When we get back, the first gentleman is weighing in
on laws about Wolf's and one part of this story
is not surprising at all, but one part has me going,
what why does he have that?

Speaker 5 (31:24):
I'll explain after this.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
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Speaker 2 (31:31):
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Speaker 2 (31:51):
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Speaker 6 (31:53):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Monday edition of the show.
I got to tell you, guys, So CNN is on
in the studio. We have three televisions on in the studio.
I don't even pay it to him because I don't care,
and everybody has them on and the headline or the
chiron the words at the bottom of CNN says developing
story suspect in Trump assassination attempt to remain detained.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
Is that headline newsworthy? I think the headline newsworthy does
would be subject in Trump assassination getting out of jail,
That would be headline worthy. You don't get out anthy,
this just in water is wet. There you go, Thank
you very much, Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
We did mention, as you heard in Keenan's News, that
the verdict for the Bolder King's super shooter is has
been reached by the jury, So that is supposed to
go at one twenty five. We're going to cover that
live for you. And in the meantime, though, I've got
to tell you a couple of stories. This one from
nine News emails show Colorado's first gentleman is pursuing more

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wolf related laws. In emails obtained by nine News investigates,
Colorado's first Gentleman, Marlon Reese, was in contact with a
group that included the governor's wildlife advisor. He wanted to
meet to craft legislation related to wolves, and the advisor
replied they would not meet without him. This week, lawmakers

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press Colorado Parks and Wildlife's leaders about how the governor's
office has affected their decisions. The CPW director conceded he
was not directly answering the questions. Grand County Commissioner Merrit
Link told nine News that's a very big concern because,
in my opinion, that's how it's happening. It doesn't seem
like CPW is making decisions based on science, based on evidence,

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based on what's happening in other states. In emails obtained
by nine News, Reese was not communicating with CPW officials.
Reese has a State of Colorado email address, which means
he sends, which means what he sends and receives are
public records. In one email chain, Reese wanted to strategize

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how to pass new wolf related laws before his husband
leaves office. In one of them, he says, Hi, everyone,
I am so sorry we had to end our call
prematurely yesterday. The topic is of such great importance it
deserves more time to discuss and form a strategy around
it than he throws out of time for people to meet.
And then he goes with only two legislative sessions to.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Go while Jared is still governor.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
I suspect we would want to start safeguarding parts of
the wolf free introduction plan that are likely to first
attack on the opposition's list of priorities, i e. Downlisting
and then relisting as a game species. I also think
there are opportunities for us to learn from other states
and craft legislation that further restricts tools traditionally used in

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hunting wolves, like artificial whiting at den site, snowmobile regulations,
et cetera. Now, first, Gentleman, Marlon Reese is a well
known animal advocate. He is and animal rights Nazi. He
cares more about animal rights than he cares about human rights,
in my opinion, and so that part none of this

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story about that is confusing or upsetting or remotely shocking
to me.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
Of course, he's gonna advocate to protect wolves.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
He wants more baby cows and cows to be ripped
apart in a painful fashion by wolves. I mean, I
guess that's the only thing I can take away from it.

Speaker 5 (35:21):
So he loves wolves, hates cows.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
And the thing that I have a question about is
why does he have a State of Colorado email address?

Speaker 5 (35:31):
As far as I know, he doesn't work for the
State of Colorado and.

Speaker 6 (35:35):
By giving him a state email address. And by the
way they show oh, come on, they show the email
and it shows up like when you're you know, when
you see from at the top of an email, it
shows up as Reese, Governor's office, Marlin, Reese governor office, Marlin.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
That's how it shows up as from. So when you
have an email that says it's coming from the governor's office,
isn't it implied that you're kind of.

Speaker 6 (36:09):
Making a missive from the governor's office. I mean, it
wouldn't be a stretch to think that the governor was
in favor of what you're doing, and that the governor
is somehow making these requests. I mean, it's not outside
the realm of possibility. We entered into an era during
the Clinton administration in the late nineties. Well, for the

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first time in my experience, a first lady played an
outsized role in the administration of her husband. Now nobody
voted for Hillary Clinton. She was put in charge as
his wife of Hillary Care. You guys may not remember
this if you're too young, but Hillary Care was going

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to be the first great socialized medicine program in the
United States. It failed miserably because no one liked Hillary
and a lot of people were like, wait a minute,
why is his wife doing this?

Speaker 5 (37:04):
And that started this.

Speaker 6 (37:05):
Sort of tradition of outsized influence in the Democratic Party
by the spouses of the people who are elected. Jill
Biden just sat in on the first cabinet meeting. In
the last year, Michelle Obama completely renovated school lunches and
made them completely inedible. Now, every first lady has a project,

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has a passion, has a has a thing that she
works on. And I'm just keep saying first lady because
traditionally they've been first ladies. Please don't take that as
a slight in any way, shape or form against the
first gentleman, because it's really not intended to be that way.
But everybody has their passion projects, right, But it's one
thing to have a passion project like Laura Bush who
wanted to expand access to books and reading for kids

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in school. Or Nancy Reagan, say Noda drugs, she was
big on san Noda drugs. Malania Trump doesn't fit the
mold of a first lady. She was just kind of
quietly off to the side doing whatever she was doing.
And again, not a knock I'm just saying it was
what it was.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
But I don't know if I'm entirely comfortable with the
spouse of these elected officials having.

Speaker 6 (38:14):
Outsize influence when it comes to policy making decisions and
leave it to nine nine News interviewed two people about this.

Speaker 5 (38:24):
One that they interviewed was.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Duh.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
I'm trying to find the first name of the first
person that they talked to. Meritlink, Grand County Commissioner Meritlink
says a little further down in the story, I guess
it's not surprising there's influence, obviously indirectly because those aren't
directly CPW people talking about the email, He said he

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did not believe it was appropriate for the First Gentleman
to strategize ways to pass new laws.

Speaker 5 (38:58):
Now, I actually.

Speaker 6 (38:59):
Disagree with that part of the statement. I think that
the First Gentleman is well.

Speaker 5 (39:03):
Within his rights as a citizen of Colorado to advocate
for changes that he feels strongly about. I have absolutely
no issue with that.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
What I have issue with is when you're sending emails
that look like they're coming from the Governor's office.

Speaker 5 (39:16):
That's where I have a problem.

Speaker 6 (39:18):
If you want to advocate as a private citizen, go crazy.
If you want to advocate as a private citizen while
being first gentleman of Colorado, great, send your stuff from
a Gmail account, right, send it from a Gmail account.
Why do you even have a state address except to
use that perception.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
To influence people to do what you want to do.
That's my thoughts on that. So not surprised.

Speaker 6 (39:44):
I mean, he's a known animal rights activist and vegan
and all of that good stuff that goes along with that,
and well within his rights to advocate.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
My only issue is the state email address. That's it.
That is the only thing that irritates me about that. Mandy.
I think Malania's trump cause was anti bullying. Oh yeah,
that's right. Yeah, that's it exactly my comment on the
matter on.

Speaker 6 (40:12):
Colorado Wolftracker's Facebook page. Why does he have a state
of Colorado email address? If he was not this from
our text line by the way, if he was not
elected and has no official position yet he wants his
commentary to be that of a private citizen and not
public or not subject to public censorship scrutiny.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
Can't have it both ways. Yeah, yep, yep, yep, Mandy.

Speaker 6 (40:37):
Most ridiculous was the professor who defended it as free speech.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
I saw that in another story.

Speaker 6 (40:42):
I guess I can go talk in person with the
CBDW head just as any Colorado citizen can. Well, again,
he does have the right as a private citizen, but
using a state email address to do that, that's where
I get, you know, Steve says, since Jared and Marlin
reside in Boulder County, let's ship all the wolves there. Okay, alrighty,

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Marlon Red's story needs exposure. Thank you for your airtime. Yep, oh,
thank you for your tickets to the rendezvous. We had
a lot of fun. The indigenous dancing was the best. Excellent, excellent.
I would love, love, love to tell you. And moving
on to a different story, that the Colorado Department of

(41:25):
Transportation is working diligently to protect and correct and fix
our roads and make them easier use, and expand roads
that need to be expanded. But oh boy, you guys, eh,
the Colorado Department of Transportation has a new, ambitious, long
term goal and it's not making it easier to drive

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around Colorado.

Speaker 8 (41:49):
Nope.

Speaker 6 (41:50):
Their goal is to reduce the number of vehicle miles
traveled and traffic deaths.

Speaker 5 (41:56):
Better maintain the roads we have, and here's the.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
Kicker, significant increase in public transit across the state. Specifically,
they have these three goals and I'm going to read them.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
This is from CPR.

Speaker 6 (42:10):
In twenty twenty three, seven hundred and sixteen people were
killed on Colorado roads. Sea dot's new goal is for
traffic fatalities and serious injuries to fall by half by
twenty thirty seven. The department also wants to cut by
half the number of fatalities and serious injuries to pedestrians, cyclists,
and other vulnerable road users. That's thing number one they're

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going to concentrate on. The second is maintenance. Sea DOT
says no more than one percent of interstate pavements should
be in poor condition, and eighty percent of state highways
should have high or moderate driveability life a sea DOT
measurement for payment quality.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
And the third goal of sea DOT.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
Seed DOT wants to reduce transportation greenhouse gas emissions by
sixty percent by twenty thirty seven compared to two thousand
and five levels. Transit service offered by and local agencies
will increase by sixty six point seven million miles by
twenty thirty seven, an increase of about eighty three percent
of twenty twenty three levels, and the department will reduce

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vehicle miles traveled by one percent per capacity every year.
Now that means they want to control our behavior.

Speaker 5 (43:22):
That's all that means.

Speaker 6 (43:24):
Now here's what the Colorado Department of Transportation would have
to do to get me to even pay attention to
what they want me to do. First of all, Shoshan Alou,
the director of sea DOT, should never be seen in
a private vehicle again. She should only travel in Colorado
using public transportation. She should never be in a car

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by herself. She should never be in a car with
just her family. She should never be in a private
automobile again. Because that, to me would tell me we
were serious and we needed to fix this problem.

Speaker 5 (43:55):
But see that that's not what they ever do.

Speaker 6 (43:57):
They never say the employees of sea DOT will never
travel in their own cars again. They never say that
they're just trying to get us never to travel in
our cars again. Now, if you remember when light rail
was sold to Coloraden's it was sold with all of
these glorious predictions that they were gonna take all of

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these people off the roads. And as soon as we did,
light rail. Just tons of people were.

Speaker 5 (44:22):
Gonna give up their cars.

Speaker 6 (44:23):
They were gonna hop on the trains and we were
gonna have no more problems on I twenty five, and
it was just gonna be wide open.

Speaker 5 (44:28):
It was gonna be fantastic.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
The reality is is that before light rail, four percent
of Coloradin's use mass transit. And now guess what the
number is. Just guess I'll give you a second. Think
it through. We have light rail, we have buses, we
have the train to the plane, we have all these things.
We've spent billions of dollars on four percent of people

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take public transit now four So whatever they're telling you
about all we.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
Need to do is build better transit. More people know
it's a lie.

Speaker 6 (45:00):
It's a demonstrably provably false lie, because we've heard it
all before. Absolutely many zipper merges work. I was in
Arkansas last month. They don't do zipper merges.

Speaker 5 (45:14):
In fact, a quarter of a mile before we would merge,
they have signs saying merge here state law. What a mess?
What a mess?

Speaker 6 (45:22):
Can I just point out and I want to know
you guys can text us at five six six nine
zero during this construction season, which you know in Colorado,
we have spring, fall, winter, and construction season. I have
noticed that my fellow Colorados are getting the zipper merge.
They're getting it, ay, Rod, have you noticed more people

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doing the zipper merge correctly?

Speaker 5 (45:45):
Because I have no, You're no. He's waving me off.

Speaker 6 (45:48):
And I live in an area right now where everything
in my area is under construction everything.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
I think.

Speaker 5 (45:56):
I think we're starting to get at Colorado about the
zipper merge. I think we are, Mandy. Remember that when.

Speaker 6 (46:03):
Governor Polis said fix the damn roads. Wonder what happened
to that? Well, I mean he got elected. You don't
really think he was gonna do that after he got elected?

Speaker 1 (46:13):
What what?

Speaker 6 (46:16):
Hey, Mandy, I'm up in New Hampshire and their highways
are amazing, no potholes, and seem to be kept up
on a regular basis. You don't live free or die
New Hampshire, live with good roads. New Hampshire. I don't
know what they're doing up there. What the hell would
we do in eastern Colorado about transportation, says this Texter.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
Well, you guys are on your own, right, I mean,
you just have to fend for yourself. Mandy.

Speaker 6 (46:40):
I make a point, to look intently at the trains
when I see them, especially when I'm not the driver.
And in the past I've counted ten total riders the
trains that come down here to the Tech Center. Once
you get to Bellevue Station, there's almost no one on
the State on the train going south of here. Now
they granted they don't go that far south of Bellevue.

Speaker 5 (47:02):
Well, there's just no one on the trains down here.

Speaker 6 (47:04):
The problem with the trains, and this is this is
this is a problem that we have to fix, not
with the trains. I personally, if I had my drothers
with the trains, I would rip out the trains and
put high speed.

Speaker 5 (47:18):
Buses on those train tracks. Like put one bus on
one side, one bus on the other, and just run
high speed buses because they're a fraction of the cost.
You can adjust.

Speaker 6 (47:27):
Like imagine after a after a Broncos game, and you
just had a bunch of buses. You had you had
thirty buses lined up to take people down on the
various things, and you just put them on the mass
trainsit trails that no longer have trains on them, and
they just went and you knew that you were having
a Broncos game.

Speaker 5 (47:42):
So oh wait, you need fifty buses.

Speaker 6 (47:43):
Yeah, we got fifty buses coming, unlike the trains where
they don't even seem to pay attention to major events.

Speaker 5 (47:50):
So we shall see. Colorado is starting to get the
zipper merged thanks to you. Yes, I will gladly take
some credit for that. Gladly.

Speaker 6 (48:00):
One thing Light Reel did was bring the homeless and
drugs to the suburbs.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
Correct.

Speaker 6 (48:04):
C dot director was an Obama install with Jared's blessings.
And she's a complete moron, same as Buddha Jedge. Well,
I don't think she's a moron. She did get a
quite fancy college degree, but she is absolutely a political appointment.
Her father is jacklu former Treasurer secretary, very very influential
in the Democratic.

Speaker 5 (48:24):
Party and that is why she has this job. And
if you think.

Speaker 6 (48:30):
Colorado transportation is going well, just wait, it's only gonna
get worse. Think we need to expand roads, No, no, no, no, no,
we just need to force people. We're going to be
driving so miserable in Colorado that no one is going
to want to do it because it's going to be
so miserable to be in your car that's the strategy.

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The strategy isn't to make everything better. It's kind of
like Obamacare.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
Stay with me for a second.

Speaker 6 (48:59):
Obamacare, the way it was constructed, it never There are
no mechanisms in Obamacare anywhere to actually bring down the
cost of health care right and health insurance is priced
directly based on what health care costs. That's how health
insurance works. So if you want to bring down health insurance,

(49:19):
you have to bring down the cost of health care.
And instead of injecting things into the healthcare system to.

Speaker 5 (49:25):
Make it more competitive, to force.

Speaker 6 (49:30):
Healthcare providers to be upfront and open about their pricing,
none of that stuff was in Obamacare.

Speaker 5 (49:35):
The real purpose of Obamacare.

Speaker 6 (49:37):
Was to make you beg for a public option to
make your insurance worse and far more expensive. So you
would love to have a public option where you would
love to have Medicare for all.

Speaker 5 (49:49):
That was what Obamacare was a design to do.

Speaker 6 (49:52):
And everything sett is focusing on. It's not designed to
fix the roads. It's not designed to help us get
from point A to point B without pulling our hair out.
It's designed to do exactly the opposite, so then we'll
beg for more mass transit because the thought of getting
behind the wheel of our car is so just absolutely
horrific that we will just well, we'll beg Please.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
Put a bust up right outside my house. Please.

Speaker 6 (50:16):
The real issue is that RTD especially has to figure
out how to deal with the crime on or at
least the perception of the crime.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
On the trains and the buses.

Speaker 6 (50:27):
People getting murdered on a bus is not going to
be solved by climate friendly policies designed to forces onto
the buses where people are getting shot because I'm not
doing it.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
I mean, come on, oh, this person.

Speaker 6 (50:40):
The only time I'm miserable is in my car when
I happen to catch you on the radio, but thankfully
text her. You found time to text me and let
me know instead of just being a grown up and
turning the station. You're awesome, texter. I hope you stay
miserable the rest of the day, you know what. I
hope your radio breaks on this station. I hope none
of the together buttons work. My mom's old car, The

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Chipmunks Christmas album got caught in the CD player and
we could not get it out.

Speaker 5 (51:11):
So if you wanted to listen to in car entertainment,
you were listening to.

Speaker 6 (51:14):
The chipmunks sing the Christmas songs. Needless to say, we
often rode in silence. When do we Okay, we're gonna
take a break. Right now, they are supposed to announce
the verdict, the verdict of the Boulder King Shoopers King
Soupers shooter at one twenty five. So we will dip
into that during the news back when that is over.

Speaker 8 (51:32):
Right after this modelista found guilty on all ten of those,
we'll send it back over to Mandy Connell.

Speaker 6 (51:37):
So the rest of it, he's facing like a total
of fifty one charges, but obviously the murder charges were
the most significant. His only option was to be found
not guilty by reason of insanity, and obviously the jury
did not buy that. If there's ever been a case
where I thought, really thought that defense had a chance,
I thought it was this one. So it just goes

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to show how high the bar is for an insanity
plea when you especially when you execute a crime in
the way that this guy executed this particular crime.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
Because he planned very carefully.

Speaker 6 (52:13):
He drove by other grocery stores, he went to a
very specific grocery store before he started shooting at people,
So he's.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
Going to jail. A Rod just said, well, he get
the death penal. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (52:24):
We don't have a functioning death penalty here in Colorado.
As a matter of fact, there was a move to
remove it as an option, and I don't remember what happened.

Speaker 5 (52:34):
Did we actually pass that here in Colorado?

Speaker 6 (52:38):
And I've alfled for a long time on the death penalty,
and I'm pretty open about that because my concern is
is that if one innocent person is put to death,
that's too many innocent people getting put to death.

Speaker 5 (52:51):
But that being said, it's nice to have that option
on the table for prosecutors, even.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
Though in Colorado there's no will for the death penalty. Otherwise,
the guy who shot up the or theater would have
been already put to death by now, but he's not.

Speaker 5 (53:06):
He's never gonna be put to death. So there you go.

Speaker 6 (53:09):
The Kingsweeper's boulder shooter has been found guilty. They will
worry about a sentencing. She'll announce this sentencing date at
the end of this hearing and then we'll find out
what happens to him. But you don't get found guilty
on ten council murder and ever get out of prison.
That's not a thing that's gonna happen. So he'll spend

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the rest of his life in prison. And I don't
think anybody's feeling bad about that right now, you know,
I really don't think anyone's feeling bad about that.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Now.

Speaker 6 (53:38):
A couple of things on the blog I want to
direct your attention to that I'm not going to spend
a bunch of time on it right now. And one
of them is are ballots that should be out there
leaving I think they get sent out for some reason.
October fifth is when they get sent out. That date
is stuck in my mind, although now I hang on

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one set Colorado ballots mailed. Let's see, Okay, so ballots
are mailed out on October eleventh, and our ballots are
going to be ginormous. I'm already working on my voter
guide and some of them are pretty straightforward and easy

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to say, no, this is a bad idea. But I'm
also trying to do a little more research on things
like the Board of Education. I'm trying if you live
in a county that has a competitive county commission race
or where people are competing for those and you have
information about candidates. Please feel free to afford it to

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me because I cannot do a deep dive on everything everywhere,
So it is it's challenging to try and get but
I'm trying to make it as comprehensive as possible. But
on the blog today, I have a get to know
what's on the ballot article that you should look at.

Speaker 7 (55:01):
For sure.

Speaker 6 (55:01):
There's a really good article on the Board of Education
candidates as well that I want you to see. And
so those are two things I want you to look
at when we get back. I love Grand Lake, Colorado.
If you've never been to Grand Lake, if you're new
to Colorado, it is just.

Speaker 5 (55:17):
This little gem of a little town right on these
beautiful lakes, right outside Rocky Mountain National Park. It is
just the cutest little place. But what the heck? Grand Lake?
What the heck? I'll explain after this.

Speaker 6 (55:31):
I love Grand Lake, Colorado, cutest little town ever. And
every year they have a whole week of celebrating the Constitution.

Speaker 5 (55:38):
Like what's not to like about that? Well, they're now.

Speaker 6 (55:42):
Former city manager says Grand Lake has some problems. And
this is the only reason I'm doing this because most
of you don't live in Grand Lake. Most of you
probably don't even go to Grand Lake, but this is
what happens in a small town, and as a longtime
resident of small towns in other places, I can tell
you I have seen this exact same thing. So the

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Grand Lake town managers officially resigned after a long, storied
career of just eighty one days. Yep, guy Patterson tendered
his resignation letter, and boy, he he really did not
pull any punches. So apparently, in order to get somebody
to work in Grand Lake, they have to subsidize the

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housing because housing there is incredibly expensive. So mister Patterson
had been promised a a stay for two months at
Grand Escape Cottages and then October first, the town manager
will be staying at a property owned by the town

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called Matthew's Property until May thirty first.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
Of twenty twenty five. So the problem is.

Speaker 6 (56:55):
Is that when mister Patterson went to move into this
second property, there were two town employees already living in
the space, and he was like, wait, I can't kick
these people out.

Speaker 5 (57:08):
So in trying to fix the problem he.

Speaker 6 (57:11):
Found out he says the conditions of the property were
misrepresented and even requested that the town repair the property
to the level where trustees would feel comfortable housing their families.
Things deteriorated at an August twenty sixth Board of Trustees meeting,
and it turned into a guy expressing frustration regarding the

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burial of his father at the Grand Lake Cemetery. And
this town manager has tried to get just a hole
dug for this man at the cemetery. And he ended
his letter with saying simply stated, the administrative structure I
inherited was so dysfunctional it literally couldn't.

Speaker 5 (57:52):
Put a hole in the ground.

Speaker 6 (57:55):
I immediately went to the board to get accountability for
this in a host of other issues.

Speaker 5 (57:59):
Nothing happened.

Speaker 6 (58:01):
He suggested Grand Lake should seek an administrator quote more
closely aligned with.

Speaker 5 (58:06):
Their culture, which is apparently very dysfunctional. But this is
what you get when you move in to a small
town that's relatively insulated. And Grand Lake is an insulated.

Speaker 6 (58:18):
Small town because if its locale, you gotta be the
right kind of person and hiring someone from outside the town,
which may be the only option because nobody inside the
town either wants the job or is qualified for the job.
But please fix it, Grand Lake, because I love your
little community. And I'd hate to see it just turn
into a dump because you can't get the right people

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in there to do the right job.

Speaker 5 (58:40):
So there you go.

Speaker 6 (58:41):
There's a Grand Lake story of the year. Probably won't
talk about Grand Lake again in twenty twenty four because
it's just a cute, little quiet community and they do
their great Constitution Week celebration.

Speaker 5 (58:52):
It's just awesome. When we get back.

Speaker 6 (58:55):
Oh boy, how doy do I have a two minute
drill plan for you today and talk in the next
hour era, Let's talk a little bit about pornography. Yeah,
we've got q not one, but two stories involving pornography.

Speaker 5 (59:09):
And they are.

Speaker 6 (59:11):
They are really well. One of them doesn't involve pornography.
And we've got pornography and sex parties. Okay, big hour
coming up. Don't want to miss it, but I'll do
those early in case you have to pick up the.

Speaker 5 (59:21):
Kids in school.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
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Speaker 2 (59:51):
The two minute drill at two? Hey, we're I go
to too minute warnings, rapid fire stories of the.

Speaker 7 (59:56):
Day that we don't have more time for triple let's
call this.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
So it'll take longer than two minutes are here's many cuddle.

Speaker 5 (01:00:06):
All right, my friends. Story number one is that parents
showed up at a soccer match, which is not in
and uself notable, but in New Hampshire, there is a
soccer team that has a boy who has decided he
is a girl playing on a high school girls soccer team. Well,
the parents of the opposing team, who didn't necessarily want

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their girls to play against a boy, asked the coach
to sit the player, and he.

Speaker 6 (01:00:32):
Came back and said nope. Centeral law says I have
to let a boy play on the girls soccer team.
So to organize a silent protest, parents got wristbands and
wrote x X on the wristbands.

Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
That was all they did.

Speaker 6 (01:00:46):
They didn't yell, they didn't carry on, they didn't yell
at the kid, nothing. They just wore the risk bands
that said XX in support of girls only in girls sports.
You know what the school district did.

Speaker 5 (01:00:57):
They called the cops.

Speaker 6 (01:00:59):
And had the parents removed for their silent protests. Now
the school as an entity clearly violated the First Amendment
rights of these parents, so expect a law suit about this.
But man, when I see something like this happening in
New Hampshire, whose state motto is live free or Die,
I can't help but be worried about the rest of

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the country as well, because if.

Speaker 5 (01:01:21):
They don't even know their state motto, what the world
of the rest of us supposed to live under?

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Drill it too.

Speaker 6 (01:01:28):
Very interesting lawsuit that is happening right now involving the
right wing news channel Newsmax is about to go into
a Delaware court. The case was brought by Smartmattic, a
voting machine technology company. They have already sued Fox News.
Actually Dominion sued and settled Fox News. I want to
make sure I get this right. But Fox News settled

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a similar defamation case with do Manion voting Systems. They
paid seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars just before
the try was to begin in twenty twenty three. That
Newsmax doesn't have that kind of scratch. So they're going
to have to go to court and they are going
to have to prove that their people did not act maliciously.
Now I haven't seen any of the discovery. I don't

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know if the emails, like the emails at Fox News
that were released that pretty much showed the people on
Fox News that were saying the election was stolen because
the voting machines knew that that was incorrect.

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
But newsbacks, if they lose this case, this could.

Speaker 6 (01:02:29):
Actually be the death knell for the television network. So
we will have to see what happens. But they did
not have the luxury of settling because they did not
have the money to pay, So it's going to be
very interesting to see how this all works out. But
what's clear to me is that newsbacks, excuse me, smartmatic
and dominion voting systems made way more money suing over

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these things than they ever made actually selling voting systems.

Speaker 5 (01:02:58):
Going to drill it too, this story is not surprising,
but it's very sad.

Speaker 6 (01:03:02):
At the same time, only thirty seven percent of Americans
believe the twenty twenty four elections will be both honest
and open to rightful voters, while forty three percent have
serious doubts about their honesty, openness, or both. Republicans and
Independence are far more skeptical than Democrats about the legitimacy
of the upcoming elections, and nearly two thirds of the

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public believe disinformation from the news media and social media
will affect the outcome of voting.

Speaker 5 (01:03:29):
So I want to ask this question in the next segment.

Speaker 6 (01:03:32):
What would have to happen for you, dear listener, to
think that the elections were fair, honest and open.

Speaker 5 (01:03:39):
I would love to know. I have some ideas that
I'll share it a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Drill it too.

Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
San Francisco is tired of being a crap hole, and
now they are aggressively going after homeless encampments. They're setting
up tiny homes, but embattled Mayor London Breed has been
very aggressive in ramping up enforcement. And I for one,
am thrilled about this because San Francisco has been an
absolutely beautiful city in the past. I hope it gets

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back to being a beautiful city. I'd love to go
visit once everything is all cleaned up. But this is
going to be what we're seeing.

Speaker 6 (01:04:13):
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that the prior
decision that you had to have some kind of shelter
before you told people that you can't sleep.

Speaker 5 (01:04:20):
On the street could not be upheld.

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
Expect more of this and maybe, just maybe we can
actually do something about homelessness.

Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
We'll have to wait and see.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
It too.

Speaker 6 (01:04:31):
And now two stories that you are not gonna believe,
but here they are in the news. One in a
closely watched First Amendment rights case, a former University of
Wisconsin campus chancellor who was fired after making pornographic films
with his wife that he then put on the internet
has now has now fired back, saying that making pornographic

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films with his wife and putting them on the Internet
are simply expressions of his First Amendment rights and the
University of Wisconsin cannot fire him for expressing his First
Amendment rights.

Speaker 5 (01:05:06):
He's been on paid leave from.

Speaker 6 (01:05:08):
His faculty position since the regions fired him as a
chancellor in twenty twenty three. But the chancellors are like
in no mood to have this guy in front of
the classroom, a rod. Let me ask you a question
and be honest, Okay, snap question. If you found out
one of your college professors had porn on the web,
would you go look at it just to see, not
like just to be like dude, really, because I would.

Speaker 5 (01:05:30):
I think probably I probably would, especially as a college
student and then how are you supposed to take that
person seriously? You know, I well, I'm just you said
it not me, not me. You said it not me.
The weird thing is is that dude may have a case.

Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
We all know that Larry Flint and Hustler argued that
Hustler was merely an expression of Larry Flint's First Amendment.

Speaker 5 (01:05:59):
Rights and what so we'll have to watch this case.
As a Rod said, this one's a hard one.

Speaker 8 (01:06:07):
Too.

Speaker 5 (01:06:08):
And if you have not heard.

Speaker 6 (01:06:09):
About the former New York City COVID czar who got
caught on a hidden camera admitting that while he had
locked down the entire city of New York City, even
arrested people, not himself, but had other people arrested for
not wearing masks on the subway. He has now admitted
that during COVID he went to sex parties. That's right,

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sex parties.

Speaker 5 (01:06:33):
Where everybody was rolling on Molly having a great time.
And when he was explaining why he violated the very
policies that he put in place, he said, Hey, my
job's really hard. I need to blow off steam. Really,
COVID wasn't hard on any of us. We're out the
rest of us at all.

Speaker 6 (01:06:51):
This is another perfect example of you do that, but
I'm gonna do whatever the hell I want, as seen
over and over and over again by politicians and power
during COVID who did everything they could to shut down businesses,
churches and everything else, but still manage to find time
to have their sex parties.

Speaker 8 (01:07:11):
So there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:07:12):
That's the thing, you know now in the two minute drill.
It's all on the blog. You can see it for yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:07:17):
And I want to get back to that question about yep,
thank you. I want to get back to the question
because I think a lot.

Speaker 6 (01:07:23):
Of people distrust our electoral process at.

Speaker 5 (01:07:27):
This moment, and that is not good news.

Speaker 6 (01:07:30):
Because when we lose faith in our institutions, when we
lose faith in the fabric that underpins our society, that
is really one of the biggest signs of society and decay.
And I am perfectly be perfectly honest right now. I
don't trust the leadership of the FBI. I don't trust

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the leadership of the DOJ. I don't trust the leadership
in many different departments. And I am afraid that we
have degraded our election system so much on a state
by state basis, in an effort to make it easier
for people to vote. That we now have no confidence
that people who are not legally allowed to vote will

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not vote, and that's that's not good. So I'd like
to know how what would have to happen for you
to regain confidence in our electoral process. I mean we
could start with the Democrats need to have an actual primary.
I mean that would be nice instead of just having
someone decided upon by someone somewhere and elevating that person

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to the candidacy with no primary.

Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
That would be cool.

Speaker 6 (01:08:39):
But I wanted to know you can text me the
things that you would like to see happen in order
for you to regain.

Speaker 5 (01:08:44):
Trust in our electoral system. So that's what I want
you to text me. Five sixty six nine zero.

Speaker 6 (01:08:51):
Oh. I have already got them coming in. We're going
to take a quick time out. We'll get those when
we get back. Let me just encapsulate what the general
vibe is. Let's just say everyone wants voter id and
I think this is the most basic, simple thing that
we can do to ensure that our elections, especially now

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that we have some I don't know, ten twenty million
people here illegally. There was a story, and I don't
remember if it was Arizona, Arkansas, some state, maybe as Montana.
I have no idea where a judge just decided that
even though seventy five thousand people didn't prove their citizenship.

Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
They could vote anyway. People want voter ID here in Colorado.

Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
You can have a driver's license when you are here illegally,
so I would need some kind of certification that you
are able to vote before you get a driver's license
in Colorado, or without that proof, then you would.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
Not be able to register to vote. Manly Mandy.

Speaker 6 (01:10:02):
All candidates on every ballot. Mail in ballots only authorized
for elderly and infirm, in which case they must hold
an exemption card. Otherwise, in person voting with IDs only
from this Texter Mandy, we should know that the person
voting is legal and is the only person that should
be voting.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (01:10:24):
Ralph says, for real confidence and elections, they need a
federal holiday declared for voting day. In person voting on
paper ballots, strict control and chain of evidence for all ballots,
must prove citizenship to vote in any election. Absentee ballots
for military personnel and medical people who have to work
that day and can prove it no one else. If
people can't get to a polling place, too bad. Either

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people are serious about voting and the responsibility to vote
or not. The only thing I would say is if
you are in a hospital, if you're flat on your
back in the hospital, you should be able to request
an absentee ballot, Like someone should be able to.

Speaker 5 (01:10:57):
Make that happen for you. So yeah, that's it.

Speaker 6 (01:11:01):
Number one says this text or a proof of citizenship too.
No general mail in ballots for the most part, vote
in person. Number three, signature checks in all cases. Number four,
No electronic voting machines. I'm not opposed to electronic voting machines. However,
this is what I think needs to happen with electronic
voting machines.

Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
Okay, they all need to have a receipt.

Speaker 6 (01:11:24):
Like when I go in and I and I put
I put my little information in the electronic voting machine.
I should then get a screen at the end that says,
this is how your votes were counted.

Speaker 5 (01:11:34):
And then I get a.

Speaker 6 (01:11:35):
Receipt, a paper receipt ballot that shows exactly who I
voted for, like just like an ATM receipt, and then
as I'm leaving the polling place, I drop that ATM receipt,
which I have also verified as accurate. I drop it
into a large secure box so that there needs to
be a recount, there is a hard copy of the

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votes that were given. That for me, the electronic voting
machine problem and ATMs have been given receipts for how.

Speaker 5 (01:12:04):
Long now, Like, don't tell me the technology doesn't exist,
It absolutely exists.

Speaker 6 (01:12:10):
And as for universal mail in ballots, I think that
though it raises the number of people who are voting,
it definitely raises the perception, at a minimum that people
are cheating.

Speaker 5 (01:12:23):
Because if you really.

Speaker 6 (01:12:24):
Wanted to, if you were running in a small race,
right if you're running in a race for town council,
and you went to apartment complexes all over your region,
like wherever you are, your little town, and you just
went into the mailroom every day and you picked up
all the ballots that were just laying there because they
were someone else's ballots, and you just.

Speaker 5 (01:12:45):
Filled them out and you just signed them. I bet
you ninety.

Speaker 6 (01:12:48):
Percent of them would get through the signature check process,
would I bet you at least that, And in an
election that is going to be decided by a handful
of votes.

Speaker 5 (01:13:01):
You could change the election easily and no one would
know you were doing it. No one would know.

Speaker 6 (01:13:08):
So it's it's there's too many potential situations for bad.

Speaker 5 (01:13:13):
Actors with all mail votes. I just I don't I
don't think it works.

Speaker 6 (01:13:17):
I'm all in favor if we need to have a
federal holiday, although I don't think we do because your
job is required by law to allow you to go
talk to vote. That is already a law, so there's
no need to make it a holiday per se. Because
still then you, guys, I don't know if you've noticed
on our federal holidays, a lot of people are still working,

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So that wouldn't solve the problem. So here's what I
would love to have happen. This is when we're store
my belief in the integrity of elections. Number One, take
the party affiliation of every candidate off the ballot. Take
it off the ballot. If people don't know what party
you're in, tough. Go back to in person voting with

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a voter I d and I agree. Get all the
damn votes counted in one day. And if you are
the clerk of courts or the supervisor of elections or
whoever manages that in your community, and you can't get
it done, you need to be replaced, period, full stop.

Speaker 5 (01:14:15):
No more to say about that.

Speaker 6 (01:14:16):
Apparently young men now outnumber young women in church attendance,
and I think there's actually really rational reasons for this
to happen, Like I really believe that this is believable

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for a variety of reasons.

Speaker 5 (01:14:38):
Let me just say this. First of all, young women.

Speaker 6 (01:14:43):
Are increasingly replacing religion with government hear me out. It
is astounding to me how many young women genuinely believe
that it is the government's responsibility to take care of them,
to pay off their student loans, to make sure that

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they never have to deal with any kind of difficulty
or challenge. They're more likely to want to do something
like socialized healthcare. By the way, you guys, I just
looked about a week ago at the waiting list at
the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The waiting
list for hospital based care meaning you need to go

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to the hospital have surgery or something along those lines.
The waiting list for hospital based care is seven point
five million people long, seven point five million, and that
the NHS has no idea how they're going to work
through this.

Speaker 5 (01:15:42):
They're really just waiting for people to die for a
very long time.

Speaker 6 (01:15:46):
I felt that about the VA. I do think that
VA has made significant changes in the past few years
to try and fix the issue, but honestly, I just
felt like the VA was like, look, if we just
make them wait long enough, these guys will just die
and then we will have such a backlog. And that's
what I feel like the NHS is doing. And so

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I recently found out, and I think I mentioned this
on the show, that a friend of my nephews, my
nephews in his mid twenties, married a British woman, moved
to the UK, found out when he was twenty six
years old he had a testicular cancer, which is a
very beatable cancer, by the way, but the NHS would
not approve the treatment for him and he died at
twenty seven.

Speaker 5 (01:16:27):
That's what socialized medicine gets you. You just die because.

Speaker 6 (01:16:32):
Unlike here, when you have to wrangle with an insurance company,
and yeah, when you're wrangling with an insurance company, it
can feel really, really horrible, but ultimately you can go
to a hospital of last resort and get care. In
the UK their hospitals of last resort are.

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
Full of people. But women, young women love to.

Speaker 6 (01:16:50):
Talk about socialized medicine is if it's something that we
should aspire to. They love to talk about government taking
care of their student loans. And at the same time,
young men are being villainized and demonized and told that
just being a dude is akin to toxic masculinity, whatever that's.

Speaker 5 (01:17:07):
Stupid set of words is. And they're looking for guidance,
They're looking for.

Speaker 6 (01:17:13):
The way right, They're looking for something that is going
to help them maneuver through this. And guess what religion
is providing that foundation. And you have young men that
are attending church at a higher level than young women.
Now as you get older, those numbers reverse again. Women
have always been the backbone of the church.

Speaker 5 (01:17:32):
Women have always been.

Speaker 6 (01:17:33):
More likely to attend church than men, and now that's flipped.
I just think this is a very interesting story and
kind of sad because when you think about all the
stories we have about neurotic young women, young women who
are completely unable to function in society. You see all
the videos of the liberal women screaming their heads off

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when someone else gets elected that they don't like they're
all full of angst and anxiety and nervousness and stress.

Speaker 8 (01:18:00):
And here you go.

Speaker 5 (01:18:03):
I'm not saying it's because they don't have God, but
it might be because they don't have God in their lives.

Speaker 6 (01:18:10):
Whereas young men are looking to be part of something
that is bigger than themselves. And I think a lot
of people are looking to be part of something that
is bigger than themselves, right, I think I've said it before.
I think we are hardwired to want to be part
of something bigger than ourselves, and so we look for
those opportunities. And you think about at World War Two,

(01:18:30):
when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, men lied about their
age to get into the military.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
I personally know multiple well, not now.

Speaker 6 (01:18:41):
They since passed away, but when I was growing up,
I knew multiple World War Two veterans, one of whom
enlisted at age fourteen because.

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
He wanted to fight for America.

Speaker 6 (01:18:51):
He wanted to be part of something bigger than himself,
and then he ended up serving in the military for
like thirty five years. So we're always he's looking to
be part of something bigger than ourselves, and young men
have basically told how can you be part of something
bigger than yourselves. You're the problem, and so they're looking
for a framework. And I think that it's kind of

(01:19:14):
interesting and I want to find this one quote from here.
It says mister Ferrier. He's twenty one. He attends two
services on most Sunday in Waco, Texas. He goes to
one church in the morning that's popular with students. In
the afternoon, he attends a church called Hope Church. He
was raised in a large Christian family. His own faith

(01:19:36):
has gone a lot stronger lately, and he said following
Jesus is difficult. It's about denying yourself and denying the
lust of the flesh.

Speaker 5 (01:19:47):
He said.

Speaker 6 (01:19:48):
Young men are attracted to harder truths and that's why
he is trying to lead a good Christian life.

Speaker 5 (01:19:57):
I just I don't know. I think this is a
really interesting develop and I have heard and I've seen
multiple videos as of late.

Speaker 6 (01:20:09):
And now, you know, when you click on a video
and you watch it, then you're in the algorithm and
so you get more and more of those videos. So
on Instagram, I clicked on this video of a young
woman who said I am a liberal and I have
dated liberal men for all of my adult life. And
I'm paraphrasing here, it wasn't even this long. And she said,
I've dated a liberal men for all of my adult life.

(01:20:30):
But a guy I've known for a long time that
I know to be a conservative asked me out on
a date. And he picked me up and he opened
the car door for me, and he took me out
to dinner and he paid, and he treated me like
a lady. And I thought to myself, what the hell
am I doing with these liberal men? So I click
on that and it's like a whole Instagram club of

(01:20:53):
young women talking about how.

Speaker 5 (01:20:54):
Awful it is to date a liberal man. You the
idea of someone who've used you per who.

Speaker 6 (01:21:03):
Only looks at you purely as an intellectual partner and
a creature that that you know is.

Speaker 5 (01:21:09):
Equal in every way, But the reality is is, ah,
that's kind of gross. After a while, I want a
dude who acts like a dude. I want a man
who acts like a man. So yeah, we saw comedian
on Saturday night. Actually he's the opener there, a Rod
at comedy Works.

Speaker 6 (01:21:26):
I got his contact info because he was hilarious, but
at one point he.

Speaker 5 (01:21:30):
Said, yeah, hats off.

Speaker 6 (01:21:31):
To all you straight people calling your your relationship's partner.

Speaker 5 (01:21:36):
Great. You don't call your wife your partner?

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
Do you you do?

Speaker 3 (01:21:40):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
Do you have a law firm?

Speaker 6 (01:21:43):
I don't that's a trend. I hate despise. Yeah, partner
is not for straight couples. No offense to gay couples.
I don't think it's.

Speaker 5 (01:21:52):
Good for you either. Why can't you just say boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife?
I mean, you know, if you're female, this is my girlfriend,
it's my lady. I hate partner. It implies that you're
about to do business. We're gonna write up a contract,
money's gonna change hands. We're gonna get an office, maybe
just a wee work, we don't know. We're gonna have letterhead,

(01:22:13):
just letterhead for just us.

Speaker 6 (01:22:16):
I hate the partner thing, and young people do it.
It's just so unromantic.

Speaker 5 (01:22:20):
This is my partner. Chack Chuck would punch me.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
He'd be like, what are you doing?

Speaker 5 (01:22:25):
I think you have to now once and then see
you see the realcit Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:22:29):
I don't know if he might be listening right now,
because this is when he picks Q up for school,
and if he sees it coming, shoot, I wish i'd
done that earlier, because that would have been hilarious.

Speaker 5 (01:22:38):
Next time you see him, he's gonna give you the
look like, oh, you were listening words.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:22:40):
He literally would be like, what are you talking about?
Right now? He would call me out in any situation,
he'd be like, no, I'm her husband, not her partner.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
No.

Speaker 6 (01:22:52):
I mean it's implied you have a partnership, but partner's
a business term. It's not romantic at all. It's sanitized.
I don't want my relationship to be sanitized. I want
it to be passionate and fulfilling and exciting and sometimes dull.

Speaker 5 (01:23:09):
You know, can't all be fun in games.

Speaker 6 (01:23:12):
I don't want it to be sanitized, though I don't
I don't want to unromanticize it. I think that that
happens anyway with marriage. Anybody who's been married for.

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
A long time is like, ah, yeah, that romance stuff
goes out the window after a while, so.

Speaker 6 (01:23:26):
You don't need to sanitize it even further. This says
this Texterter said, my wife is called management.

Speaker 5 (01:23:32):
I do sometimes refer to shock as my wallet.

Speaker 6 (01:23:35):
Like when we're in a story, I'm like, oh, I
love I did this actually in an entered department store
one time. The lady's like, oh, what are you looking for?
I said, oh, I lost my wallet. She goes, oh, no,
let me help you.

Speaker 5 (01:23:44):
Look. I was like, no, he's right over there. I
can see him. He'll over here.

Speaker 6 (01:23:51):
Just don't call me by my name, says this person.
A marriage certificate is a contract, absolutely, But do you
really I mean, how send to you in a relationship.

Speaker 5 (01:24:02):
With your spouse? How often do you refer?

Speaker 6 (01:24:04):
Well, you know, when we signed our marriage certificate and
entered into our legally binding contract, I expect this sort
of behavior from you. That's what I picture people in
a partner sort of relationship. Pass They're the kind of
people who constantly my partner. It's kind of like a
lane in that episode of Seinfeld where the woman kept going.

Speaker 5 (01:24:26):
My fiancee, have you seen my fiance? Anyone?

Speaker 6 (01:24:29):
Have you seen my fiance? It's like that my partner partner, Mandy.
I think man using the term partner gets them off
the hook, and.

Speaker 5 (01:24:41):
I think it's disgusting.

Speaker 6 (01:24:42):
As a father of two girls, I don't know if
I'm not sure that I agree with that. Oh, this
guy says, I say, my beautiful bride, that's lovely, lovely, Mandy.
Church is a great place for community and finding friends
and also to find the opposite sect that has the same.

Speaker 5 (01:25:00):
Values as you. Exactly right, exactly right, Mandy. I raise
my daughter Catholic.

Speaker 6 (01:25:08):
She's an awesome kid and wants to be commissioned as
a Marine Corps officer.

Speaker 5 (01:25:12):
That is fantastic, Mandy. White.

Speaker 6 (01:25:14):
Males are vilified on TV commercials. Convince me I'm wrong, Steve.

Speaker 5 (01:25:19):
This is that right there.

Speaker 6 (01:25:21):
What you just typed is the thing that makes my
husband absolutely insane.

Speaker 5 (01:25:27):
And we've talked about this for years.

Speaker 6 (01:25:29):
The fact that all of the Disney shows, if you've
ever watched a Disney show designed for teenagers, all of
the parents are the dumbest people you have ever seen
on a television show in your entire life, Like so
stupid that you're like, how did they even.

Speaker 5 (01:25:46):
Know to have sex to have children because they're that dumb,
And the kids.

Speaker 6 (01:25:51):
Are always like, well, aren't we the clever ones? And
I'm like, I don't need that on my life, do not?

Speaker 5 (01:25:58):
Mandy? I so agree with you. Partner is a newter term.
It is a neutered term, isn't it. It kind of
implies that your partner maybe looks like a ken doll
down there a little bit, you know, do you know
what a ken doll looks down like? Down there? A
whole lot of nothing, hey, Rod, a whole lot of nothing. Wow.

(01:26:18):
Something just flashed into my mind.

Speaker 6 (01:26:21):
When I was in my twenties, a friend of mine
went out with a guy and they got to the
point where they actually engaged in relations.

Speaker 5 (01:26:29):
And I said, well, did you enjoy yourself?

Speaker 6 (01:26:31):
And she said to me, he was built like a
ken doll, And I thought that poor man, that poor man,
and she kept dating him.

Speaker 5 (01:26:40):
They dated for like two years.

Speaker 6 (01:26:41):
He was a great guy, great guy. They dated for
like two years and then he dumped her for someone else.
So you never know, guys, if you're not, you know,
gifted in that area, if you're not gifted in that area,
you can still get a really nice woman.

Speaker 5 (01:26:56):
And she was Mandy.

Speaker 6 (01:26:58):
What does the Bible call it? I believe it's called marriage. Yeah,
I mean it's marriage. The marriage part is not it's
the partner thing. If my partner misbehaves, can I call HR?
I threaten to call HR all the time on my
entire family. I do it to my daughter, I do it.

Speaker 5 (01:27:13):
To my husband.

Speaker 6 (01:27:13):
I did it to my mom on the phone with
her like you keep this up, lady, I'm calling HR.
She was like, what, sorry, Mom, just kidding. Mandy with
a partner, it's all fun and games until the cops
get called. Then it's hide and seek. There you go,
There you go, Mandy, I refer to my wife is
the boss lady.

Speaker 5 (01:27:32):
Yep, Mandy. I'm a working.

Speaker 6 (01:27:34):
Cowboy wear boots and a hat daily and had a
random person at Costco tell me that I look like
a poster for toxic masculinity, to which I would have responded, no,
I don't, and then I.

Speaker 5 (01:27:46):
Would just walked away. People. First of all, how do
you who do you?

Speaker 6 (01:27:49):
How do you get off telling someone that they look
like the picture of toxic masculine?

Speaker 5 (01:27:54):
Who does that?

Speaker 6 (01:27:58):
Brian Edwards doesn't do that, even though he's a sporty
pickle Right now, Ryan Edwards would never tell somebody was
the picture of toxic masculinity, would you?

Speaker 5 (01:28:05):
Ryan?

Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:28:06):
Because I've been accused of being a liberal man, and
that's bad enough, don't.

Speaker 6 (01:28:11):
I don't think you come off like a liberal man.
I think you come off as a thoughtful man.

Speaker 5 (01:28:14):
I appreciate that. Yeah, that's a difference.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
I don't think.

Speaker 5 (01:28:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:28:18):
The label was fascinating when I was listening to that
conversation as you're as I was driving in and by
the way, I have referred to my wife as a
partner before, but you never will again.

Speaker 5 (01:28:31):
You never will again.

Speaker 6 (01:28:32):
Like there's so much marriage that takes the romance out
of marriage. Don't take it out when referring to the
person that you're married to that's a partner.

Speaker 5 (01:28:39):
Dave like, hey, you know like partner you know, yeah,
I mean you walk by your wife and be.

Speaker 6 (01:28:45):
Like, can you put the TPS reports together? We'd appreciate it. Yeah,
he needs you to get your act together.

Speaker 5 (01:28:52):
I usually just talk to her like I love being
on your team kind of thing. But then maybe that's
work at sports all the time. That's different.

Speaker 6 (01:28:57):
No, being on someone's team, that's that's a hundred I
am on I am one hundred percent on Chuck's team.
He's one hundred percent on mine. But he would never
refer to me as a partner. It would never happen. Yeah,
I get it, I get it. I get that reference
for sure. But he's also a big softie and it's
extremely a big romantic guy.

Speaker 5 (01:29:12):
So anyway, Mandy in the poly world, I hear partner
a lot. Well, yeah, because how do you describe multiple
people that you're sleeping with? Anyway? Wow, wife is the
calendar and I am the uber, says this guy.

Speaker 6 (01:29:23):
Okay, we all know our parts. Okay, now Ryan, what
do you guys? Well, let me do this first. Now
I want you to yell it again, Ryan, don't don't
hold back, just yell it, because now it's time for
the most exciting segment on the radio.

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
Of its kine on the day. Yes, well done, all right,
what is our dad joke of the day? Please me?
I go I know first, any any weird looks Ryan?

Speaker 8 (01:29:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, excellent, Yes, okay, dad joke.

Speaker 5 (01:29:54):
Well, they're rushering us out here, and now because that
they are not huh, well, you're gonna have this.

Speaker 8 (01:30:01):
At least banks should do a better job of keeping
their ATMs filled. This is the fifth one I've been
to that says insufficient fund when you can Oh, well, gotcha.

Speaker 6 (01:30:12):
Oh Ryan, one of our texter says, Ryan comes across
as a lumberjack man.

Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
Oh yeah, yes, she's gotta carry a roll up rownie
with me. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 8 (01:30:23):
You're Ryan like me, is probably upset because late last
week this week showed seventies and it was perfect flannel weather.

Speaker 5 (01:30:31):
But now it's like more like eighties this week, and
I feel robbed.

Speaker 6 (01:30:34):
Well, it's gonna be seventies too, that's flannel weather as well.
So you're still a little guy your summer weight flannel.

Speaker 5 (01:30:39):
I wear the flan, right, I have summer flannels.

Speaker 1 (01:30:42):
I have.

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
I have all sorts of different layers to the flannels.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
So what we're good?

Speaker 5 (01:30:45):
Yeah, as a man with joggers and a hoodie on
right now, I don't even care.

Speaker 8 (01:30:48):
So By the way, word of the day is a
verb verb tootle t o t l e means to
leave you two along you you go about your boatness.

Speaker 5 (01:30:56):
But specifically, how do you leave? Is the word though tootle?
You leave it a leisurely fatmast exactly what it says
to move or proceed in a leisurely way. There you go.

Speaker 6 (01:31:05):
What is the world's tallest mountain? Hint, it isn't Mount Everest.
And I know this, No, it's a it's.

Speaker 5 (01:31:12):
Kind of a tricky question. It is mona key in Hawaiianwaii.
Now Everest reaches a higher.

Speaker 6 (01:31:19):
Elevation above sea level at twenty nine thousand and thirty
five feet. Mona key is taller when you count the
portions of it as it used to be, but now
it's all smell dormant. It is thirty three thousand feet tall,
but most of it is under the water.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
So it's.

Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
Question, all right.

Speaker 8 (01:31:36):
Jeopardy category today is silent letters, So I'm going to
give you the letter and a clue. So it's kind
of a two for one. Okay, silent letter, the letter
missing or sees me the letter that silent. This word
is w gorgeous. George was one of these combatants. What's
a wrestler?

Speaker 5 (01:31:51):
Correct? Got it?

Speaker 7 (01:31:52):
Heay?

Speaker 8 (01:31:53):
Silent letter is H an ecstatic expression or an emotional
musical composition.

Speaker 5 (01:32:00):
Most musical ecstatic expression.

Speaker 8 (01:32:05):
Now that you get it, I'm gonna give you a
really good clue for both of you. I don't know
you're ready. Ryan's out of delay here though it's not
gonna be fair. I made my try bohemian blank.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:32:20):
Nice? Okay?

Speaker 8 (01:32:22):
H are both silent names for a German botanist. This
drooping flower lends its name to a vivid purplish red color.

Speaker 10 (01:32:33):
Trooping silent in the color. I'm not good at flowers.
Don't think about the flower, think about the color. The
color h silence in this color.

Speaker 5 (01:32:46):
I have no idea. What is fusha? Stupid Golley, that
was dumb.

Speaker 8 (01:32:53):
Silent letter is S. This title of nobility ranks just
below earl. That's what it says.

Speaker 5 (01:33:01):
You are e A R. Okay, just below and the
silent letters S.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
I don't starts with a V. I'm trying to manny
what is this called?

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
And finally, silent letter is B.

Speaker 8 (01:33:18):
He's the zap comics artist whose distinctive satirical.

Speaker 5 (01:33:23):
Work is Oh, this one has a picture. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 8 (01:33:26):
That's okay, we're gonna go with it anyway. Again, sound
letter is B. He's a zap comics artist. This is
a dump. I'm changing it up. We're gonna go to
The final category is anatomy. Okay, anatomy emphasis on A.
So just keep that in mind. The two vertebral v's
perform the rather important function of supplying blood to the brain.

Speaker 5 (01:33:46):
What is the order wrong blood to the brain? No, Ryan,
what is an artery? Such?

Speaker 6 (01:34:00):
So I was too specific in my in my answer
all What do you guys have coming up on KA Sports?
Obviously you're gonna be talking about the big WINNI yesterday.

Speaker 9 (01:34:08):
Yes, we absolutely are, And uh yeah, I mean we're
gonna obviously break down all of that. I'm wearing a
victory flannel, so we're gonna get into victory flannel mode
here the buffs.

Speaker 5 (01:34:19):
Uh no, but it's comfortable, buffs Rams broncos. It was great,
all great weekend we have in inter Rapaport. It's gonna
be fun. Show forty Pickle bar and grill'd forty Pickle
Come out and see him. We'll be back tomorrow. Keep
it on, k WA