09-25-24 FULL SHOW - When Will Congress Get Serious About Spending

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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that was a senior moment there. Couldn't remember the word
relay when runners hand the baton to anyway, Wasn't that good.

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Of a joke? Nelly didn't need to go all that
was links on it anyway?

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Did that joke?

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Eh? Ah?

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You know, eh, we'll see, we shall see. So let's
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twenty four blog when will Congress get serious about spending?

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headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. As you
can see, I put a lot of news on the
blog today, lots and lots and lots of news today.
And uh, can I ask you a question? Ay, Rod,

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you walk? You regularly walk?

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Do you do other exercise?

Speaker 7 (03:22):
Absolutely? Actually, Right now we're ramping up a bit.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
We alternate between the elliptical and then the treadmont treadmill
with an incline.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Okay, do you lift weights or anything like that? No,
you need to add that in.

Speaker 7 (03:35):
I don't want to, I don't need to. I feel good.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Well, here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
This is just me telling you at thirty something that
everyone at thirty should be listening to from person who's
now fifty five. Okay, the better you are when it
comes to muscle mass in your body from this point forward,
because from this point forward, your muscle mass is decreasing
unless you are actively working to maintain.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
And even gain muscle mass.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
And as you get older, that whole process of just
gaining muscle mass faster than you're losing muscle mass.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
It's really hard.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Well, the lower half of my body has permanent muscle
mass right from all the hockey that I played. No
matter what I do, my calf muscles are always wicked
cool and I want very strong now, but they could.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Be stronger or whatever.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
And all of that stuff is all about keeping your
knees healthy, keeping your back.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
Healthy, the elliptical, and definitely, I mean really in the treadmill.
I always keep wanting to say, tread cliinb treadmill with
the incline seems to keep my leg muscles like in
good shape.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
But you know, yeah, I probably could use.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
A little extra something on the arms, maybe a little bit,
you know, And even I'm on the treadmill.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Just it's not it's not about like being you know,
like mister World or something. I will tell you like
what I know now at fifty five, if I had
known it when I was thirty, probably would have done
things differently, is all I'm saying, Yeah, you know so.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
But I was thinking today when.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
I was driving in, like, do you have exercises that
you just despise, like you hate them?

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Because that is how I feel about push ups. We
also just got a rower, really cool. We had to
get rid of our rower to make room for our
treadmilk one machine R.

Speaker 7 (05:22):
Three, So are three machines, elliptical, treadmill and the rower.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
All.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
I mean it's a cardio room hardcore, right, And.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
That's honestly, and that comes from plug Sta weight loss
dot Com.

Speaker 7 (05:33):
That's where it kind of stemmed from.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
Because with their diet plan plus these exercises like they
they they really press on that you don't lose muscle
mass and I didn't and I still haven't. But keeping
it going, is you Age is a different conversations.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm just saying, like laying the groundwork because the stronger
your muscles are, the better your joints are, the better
your back is, the.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Better your neck is. All of these things, all of
these foundational things have the wicked mass weights. You could
even do just body weight stuff.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
I mean there there are calistenic workouts that will kick
your behind that are just you and your body.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
You don't need weights for them. Yeah, red Beard work
exactly that I was trying to figure out. I've been
trying to overcome my dislike of push ups, and I
was wondering if anybody had tips on that.

Speaker 7 (06:21):
Oh I like push ups. I also like that.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Crunches, crunches. Yeah, I ad work and for me.

Speaker 7 (06:29):
Is like leg leg leg up album.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
You're talking about like doing a bicycle.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
Uh, well, you're laying on your back and your elbowing.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yes, yeah, that's a that's a bicycle. Okay, I stand
the other leg out while you're bringing this leg in.

Speaker 7 (06:43):
Yeah, you know what, you know what I might I
might do that in the next work out. That feels good,
I tell you.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
And core is incredibly important, incredibly.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
If you do it right and you're like, oh, so good,
you do right. But I you know, I used to
hate working out.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
I truly did. I hated I hated the whole thing.
I dreaded it the whole time I was doing it.
I was like, when is this going to be over?
And then I just kept doing it, and I kept
doing it, and I kept doing it. And now if
I don't have some kind of exercise, I'm crabby or I.

Speaker 7 (07:19):
Have like a weird like anxiety.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
Now if I don't have my morning work, I just
feel like there's like a lot of excess energy that
just hasn't been like let go. Its like, ah, no,
I need to go on run or something. Yeah, that's
that's that's a good feeling when you like you need
to work out that you have to do.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Oh, this person, Mandy, I despise side planks. Not a fan,
but I don't hate them.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Wide plank and then holding out side planks you.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
Know, yeah, I know those are never doing, but regular planks,
like you feel it, you start to feel the burn.
You're like sixty seconds in the one hundred and twenty
seconds and you're like.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, okay, let me give the text line out. We've
got to give that.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
You can text us what exercises you hate to the
koa common spirit to help text line. And the only
reason I'm bringing this up is because I think everyone
has the exercise you hate, right, And I've been trying.
I've been trying to go at it like g Gordon
Liddy style, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
You know the story about G.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Gordon Liddy, you know, Okay, so g Gordon Liddy, who
was all part of the Watergate situation. Shady dude worked
in you know, just Cia stuff, just like a real
spooky dude. And he was afraid of rats like he
did not he did not like ratsy, you know. And
he went into the sewer, caught a rat, killed it,

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cooked it, and ate it to overcome his fear of rats. Now,
that could be an apocryphal story, like, but I've heard
it a million times, so I'll you know, we'll see.
I should probably look it on the internet. But I've
been trying to do push up something and they're gonna
get easier, right, They're gonna get easy.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
They don't get easier, They're pretty easy. I don't think
there's any workout I hate. I mean, I prefer to
not run.

Speaker 7 (08:56):
I like to run, but I'm not.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
I can't.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
I just physically cannot run it anymore. It's just not
something I'm doing. Mandy. I hate push ups too.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Once warmed up, I do those first to get it
over with. That's kind of where I am now. So, uh, Mandy,
I'm a physical therapist, and you are absolutely correct about
resistance training critical for sustaining mobility and uh strength for
a long quality of life.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
That's what I'm talking.

Speaker 6 (09:20):
Does the incline on the treadmill and the elliptical kind
of count that at all?

Speaker 3 (09:23):
It feels like it you're you're getting some resistance, but
you need uh what's called a closed circuit kind of exercise.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
How do I explain this where you're kind of where
your feet are always on the ground.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Even if you're just doing body weight squats and stuff
like that, because it fires different muscles than when you're
actively moving and taking one foot off the floria to.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
Tell well, my feet aren't moving on the elliptical like
you're locked into those pedals.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yeah, I forgot what im That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
Sohy elliptical feels like that, like your feet are locked
in and you're you're definitely getting that resistance like every
single because.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Your feet go with the I don't know, I don't
know if how that how that feels damn good? So
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
I hate ungees, says this texter. I used to eight lunges,
but they've gotten easier for me.

Speaker 7 (10:03):
Wunders are kind of dumb.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Why no, they're not.

Speaker 7 (10:06):
They don't feel like they do anything for me. Anyone
and add some weight.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Put thirty pounds in each hand and then do lunges
and trust me, you'll feel it. Mandy, I have these
handle things that I use when doing push ups so
my palms.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Don't have to be flat on the floor. I have these.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Uh, you'll never want to do push ups again without that.
We've tried them. Are they the spinny things? The perfect
push up thing?

Speaker 5 (10:25):
We have?

Speaker 8 (10:25):
Though?

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (10:25):
Yeah, yeah, I can't.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
I can't know. It's not working for me.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Exercises. I hate any involved movement. Okay, you're funny there, Texter.
Eight count bodybuilders from my military day?

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Is that from here? I don't know what those are? Eric, Oh,
this one.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
My favorite is the twelve ounce curl. I also enjoy that.

Speaker 6 (10:46):
Our our sinness groom, Michelle Zelner, has weighed in any incline.
The trimble does not count way overused on quadrust ups,
leaving a major imbalance with your hamstrings.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Okay, I like it anyway, Michellete.

Speaker 7 (11:00):
Damn good. Okay.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
A lot of people saying burpies, and I'm with you.
I refuse. I just got a burpie. It's not a
thing that I do.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
I'll do an inch worm, which is a much slower
version of a burpie, but.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
That burpie is not a thing that I do. They're
too easy to hurt yourself. I mean, unless you have
really incredibly good.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Knowledge of having all of the muscles in your body
tight when you kick those legs back, it's a recipe
for disaster. I absolutely hate push ups. Yes, I started
with twelve push ups a day, says this texter. I'm
up to one thirty, So a rod, should we start
doing pushups? Like right before the show, we'll start doing
push ups. We'll start with like ten, Can you do

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ten push ups?

Speaker 7 (11:41):
Can I do ten? They can be like fifty?

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Well, okay, you cannot do fifty push ups?

Speaker 7 (11:46):
Again, I think, didn't we have the fitness test, remember.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
But I don't remember how many push ups?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
No?

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah, no for that, No, for the mobility test, there
was like tenships in that there was ten.

Speaker 7 (11:58):
It was not ten.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
It was ten.

Speaker 7 (12:00):
It was more than ten, definitely more than ten.

Speaker 9 (12:02):
It was ten.

Speaker 7 (12:02):
I was more than ten.

Speaker 6 (12:04):
I can confidently say I could firm perfect form thirty
thirty five. I get stretched to fifty. But those last
fifteen are probably little arched, a little, not great.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
I like, over the course of my workout today, I
probably did fifty, but not at one time.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
And I just hate them, just hate them.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Burpies suck. That is like all over the text line
because they do Mandy.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
I hate pull ups.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
I have shoulder issues, but even after Regen rev, I
don't do them or can't do them. Only weights I
use or adjustable dumbbells. Everything else's body weight. It works,
it does work.

Speaker 7 (12:46):
How much weight you have to use in the weights
for it to be effective, And I never know the
answer to this is one of.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Those things where you start light and then you work
up every every workout, you could add five pounds, okay,
and then when you hit a place where you can't
cant you to do ten reps at whatever weight that is,
maybe you can only do six reps.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
You keep that weight until you can do ten reps
and then you move to the next problem.

Speaker 7 (13:08):
I'm a way too frequent of a wayer.

Speaker 8 (13:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (13:11):
And water weight, I.

Speaker 6 (13:12):
Mean, especially when you're having those little baby muscle terrors
when you're doing two money weights, it like throws off
my weigh ins and then I hate it and I'm
like Oh no.

Speaker 10 (13:20):
I'm gaining too much.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
Wait, no, that's just me being sore. Right, It's a problem.
It's a problem, It's a real problem.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
Eh.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
I love this text, Mandy. My favorite g Gordon Liddy stories.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
He used to hold his hand over a lit candle
as a party trick and people would ask him what
the trick to do that was. His response was not
caring about the pain. That is a very g Gordon
Lyddy answer. No, Mandy, I like reverse lunches.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Also follow Caroline Gervin's YouTube workouts. Never heard of her.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
I'm a triathlete and these are perfect along with yoga.
You try athlete people, you're all just showing off. Look
at how super athletic I am. I don't just do
one sport three on the same day.

Speaker 11 (14:02):
Are you really living if you're not running up red
rocks every single boarding here in Colorado? Oh you know,
I did a fourteen or yesterday? So why don't you
just pound the sand?

Speaker 5 (14:12):
Guy?

Speaker 11 (14:16):
You don't get in before you em and going to run?
Are you really a colorading exactly?

Speaker 4 (14:20):
I don't know one has to be.

Speaker 5 (14:21):
Like that here.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Oh well, Mandy, I started last April with five push ups.
Now I'm up to three sets of thirty push ups
in the morning and three sets of thirty push ups.

Speaker 7 (14:32):
At night, like thirty seconds of resting in between each set.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
I won't skip a day because I do feel off.
I also lost twenty pounds from April till now.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
All right, that's were all good, really.

Speaker 7 (14:44):
Good, well done, keep it going.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Umm.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
I can't think if there's anything else, Mandy, lightweight high
reps is good for toning, for cutting heavyweights, low reps
for bulking.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
That's right, But you don't want to hurt you wanna
You're not looking to bulk, You're just looking to you know.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Uh, you can do lightweight with high repetitions or you
could do heavyweight with low repetitions.

Speaker 7 (15:06):
For Okay, now, so I want to go more weight,
more more reps, less weights.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
No, I will tell you the other for you. Well,
the bulky you just said is heavier weight less reps, heavier.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
Weight less rep That's what I would tell you to
do because you want to build strength.

Speaker 7 (15:21):
But you said that, I said you said that said bulks. No,
you said that bulks.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, but you're not going to get You're not going
to get huge. You're not going to get huge huge anyway, Now,
am I able to send you a picture of those?

Speaker 4 (15:36):
I don't know what those is, but.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
You can email it to Mandy at Kway NewsRadio dot
com or Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm trying
to use that address now. I have like thirty email addresses.
You do Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 7 (15:51):
I just have Mandy which everyone comes up, I send
you stuff to.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
It all comes to the same email address. Do one
more push up than the day before. Six days a week,
take Sundays off. In a couple months, you're doing one
hundred a day.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
That applies a lot in for me any kind of workout,
like do a smidge more than the day before.

Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yep, in the day before. That's my life model.

Speaker 6 (16:10):
When do you peak then? Whendn't you say you know no?
I think I don't need to add more. You know
I've done enough.

Speaker 7 (16:17):
When do you say that? I When do you max out?

Speaker 6 (16:19):
I think that?

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Don't you set like a goal? I mean, don't you
say I'm going to do fifty push ups? I think
whatever number you set right out of the shoot is
going to indicate kind of your level of commitment. Because
if you say, like this person, I'm going to get
up to do one hundred push ups a day, that's
my goal. You're going to get to one hundred push.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Ups a day, yep.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
But if you set your goal with fifty push ups
a day, you're going to get to fifty push ups today.
So set your goal, make it a lofty one. I
don't want to do one hundred push ups today because
I hate them.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
No, it brings us back to the beginning of this
story for whatever reason. I mean, I can do anything else.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
I don't like some other exercise. I don't like tricep dips.
All got big triceps. Now it's kind of cool.

Speaker 7 (17:02):
I kind of want to take my headphones off and
do do a plank right now?

Speaker 5 (17:05):
How long?

Speaker 4 (17:07):
Okay, we've got how many time? How long until we
have to bring?

Speaker 7 (17:09):
Oh well, I'm not gonna do for four minutes.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Well that's why I asked you. How long we had
until we had to bring Yeah, we have three and
a half minutes.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Okay, you're get a plank for two minutes.

Speaker 7 (17:19):
Well, just tell me how long I want a plank
grind out?

Speaker 4 (17:21):
You want to do it?

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Okay, I'll tell you when to go here, go ahead,
assume the position. He's gonna have to figure that out.
Turn your mic off so you can hear me. Are
you ready? Okay, and go okay. He's down now, and
we'll just let him do that for two minutes while
I talk. My favorite exercise is flip flopping love Kamala Harris.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
That's very funny. Text her, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
I'm a runner who's had several injuries and starting a
twenty minute yoga flow every day. My injuries have disappeared.
Hips and knees are thriving now. Yoga is a miracle drug.
I do believe that Mandy doing one hundred pushups is
not good for your joints. Twelve to twenty five is
doable if done properly. Mandy can't run trying to avoid

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the knee replacement, trying to do the peloton two to
three times a week, six to ten miles a ride.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Okay. I don't like riding a bike either. I don't
love it. I never have. Even when I was a kid,
kids were like, hey, let's go ride bikes. I'm like,
you know, I'll just grab a skateboard. It'll be fine, Uh, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
People who never skip a day of exercise are mentally off.
What would the purpose be of going for a job
when it's six inches of and six degrees and snowing outside,
other than being able to tell people that you did it?

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Now, I used to believe that text, but.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Now I have to have some kind of movement in
my day or I'm just kind of cranky, A little
bit cranky over there, that's all. So now I get it,
Mandy even better than the lunges Genufleck to borrow a
religious term, we call those curtsy lunges. And currently I

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am reh having a knee injury, so I cannot Curtsey lunch.
Somebody said, now I know why neither of you were
in the military. No willpower. Yeah, that's probably why I
didn't join the military voluntarily, because you know what, you

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were so close?

Speaker 4 (19:21):
You made one forty five one?

Speaker 7 (19:24):
No, I looked up, it was twenty three thirty was
my car?

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Twenty three forty five is when you went down?

Speaker 7 (19:29):
No, I felt like two minutes.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
No, it was no.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
I felt good. I'm glad you did that. I already
did my workout today. I'm good.

Speaker 7 (19:37):
Fine, I just did it too.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
Fer Oh, listen to this off topic text.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
My wife counted twenty two expired license plates on our
way home from work last night. One was dated twenty
twenty two. Well, hopefully some of those people are going
to get some tickets.

Speaker 7 (19:51):
Man the core, the core oohoo sounds good.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Uh, Mandy, try a rower. I love a rower, but
my husband does not.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
So we had a rower, and I hope the people
who bought it from you are enjoying it. But we
gotta have treadmill, which I actually love having a treadmill,
especially when winter is coming up, and it's a really
good treadmill.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
So I'm kind of excited about that. Anyway. So when
we get back, we're gonna actually do some stuff on
the show today.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Sorry, I just squandered the entire first segment, but this
is what's on my mind. And now seeing the text line,
everyone hates some kind of exercise, so there you go. Uh,
this is funny, Mandy. I don't really, I really just
don't like working out in the morning. I get no
value from it. I can work out in the evening
and then I'll sleep like a baby. That's hilarious because
by the evening time, zero percent chance that's happening in

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my household. I am an early riser, Get up, work out,
get it out of my day and be done with it. Hey,
but you know what, this is what makes the world
go round. Viva a different my friends. We'll be right back,
joined by our friend and a smart weather guy, Dave
Frasier from Box thirty one.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
Hello Dave, Hey, good afternoon.

Speaker 8 (21:01):
I really enjoyed the Richard Simmons segment at.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
The top of the show.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
But you know what exercise do you? A, Dave? Everybody
has one.

Speaker 8 (21:13):
Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard
of the comedian Johnannette, Like you said, guy talks all
about food and exercise.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
I have not.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
I'm gonna have to go look him up.

Speaker 8 (21:22):
Check out Jumping at He's fantastic and he first life
tried to lose weight and he hider trainer and the
trainer said we're going to start with some push ups
and some sit ups. And he stopped and he said, listen,
I don't do ups, I.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
Do down.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
All right.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
Then there's my exercise routine.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Okay, no problem then, So I just want to say
a big fat thank you. This weather right now is spectacular.
How long do we get to keep this.

Speaker 8 (21:51):
For the next week. The seven day forecast, even I
could extend that out to ten days, shows us staying dry.
We just don't see any pattern shifts coming. It is
a little warm. We're running about ten degrees above normal,
and it is still possible that tomorrow and maybe on Sunday,
we could reach ninety again, which isn't the latest we've

(22:14):
seen a ninety degree temperature, but it's certainly something most
people don't want to deal with. But I've been stressing
the last few days. While those temperatures are very warm
for this time of the year and it has been dry,
the reality is it's not like summer heat, right because
you're loving it because you go into the evenings and
it just cools down so quickly, and the organizer are
so refreshing. So that's the benefit of September, all right.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
I have a question from a listener that texts in
a little bit, Mandy. Can you ask Dave Frasier about
weather conditions that create jet contrails. Some days there are
lots of them, other days not so much.

Speaker 8 (22:50):
It just has to do with the moisture in the
high upper atmosphere. So when we have a day, let's
take today for instance, if you have a day like
today and it's completely sunning outside and you're looking up,
I mean there's nothing but blue skies overhead. The air
over us right now is extremely dry. So the number
of jets going in and out of DIA flying over

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Colorado the same today as they were yesterday. If you
add in moisture at higher levels, then the contrails will
become more visual and evidence. So it's just a matter
of moisture in the atmosphere, and right now we're just
too dry for that. So I mean, look up at
the sky. You know there's planes out there, no evidence
that they're flying around. But if we seed a little
higher humidity into the higher atmosphere, the contrails, the pressurization

(23:33):
of the jet kind of condensing the moisture in the air,
then you can see the streets in the sky. So
just not the setup we have mass. It's all about moisture, Okay.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
So I wanted to ask you.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
We've got Hurricane Helene barreling towards the Gulf coast of Florida,
and you know it's going to hit my friends in
my hometown, not directly, but they're going to have a
lot of rain and wind. This hurricane season has been
far quieter than was anticipated, far quieter.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
Yeah. As a matter of fact, I mean only the
sixth hurricane, and it's going to be the second one
for that area. I don't know if you'll remember Debbie
hit back there in the Big Bend area of Florida
on August fifth of this year, so they haven't had
much of a break there in the Panhandle. Debbie was
only a Category one when it came ashore near Tallahassee,

(24:24):
and it caused a lot of damage related to flooding,
and then it kind of went kind across Georgia and
went back into the Atlantic before turning back into the Carolinas.
This one's going to be stronger. We're talking about potentially
a Category three hurricane. So the wines are going to
be you know, up past one hundred and ten to
maybe one hundred and thirty, so you're going to have
more wind component, you are going to have a low
line flying from heavy rain, but also from the storm

(24:47):
surge that rise in water that comes ashore. They're also
warning of rip currents, dangerous rip currents because the storm's
coming in perpendicular to the coast. And so the waves
will be curling away from the coast. Of course, that's
only an issue if people go into the water, and
they will Gridians, Yeah, they will.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
There will be people that will go into the water.
I can tell you that now.

Speaker 9 (25:06):
I know.

Speaker 8 (25:06):
It's just amazing. You see these waves in its category
two or three, and there they are. I was just
kind of taking advantage of the syrup. So category three.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Can can do is extremely destructive.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
I moved to Southwest Florida right after Hurricane Charlie, which
was a Category three when it made landfall at Puntagoda, Florida.
And when you drove down I seventy five, the eye
of the storm had tracked directly over I seventy five
after it came in off of the coastline, and on
one side of I seventy five, all of the you
know those giant light poles they have on an interstate,

(25:41):
they're massive. All of the trees on the on the
one side were flattened in one direction, and all of
the trees and light poles on the other side were
flattened in the opposite direction.

Speaker 8 (25:53):
Oh yeah, it was crazy.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
I mean it was like what just happened here? Because
you know it was. It was really it destroyed that
entire part of Florida.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
But it's rebuilds even better, So there you go. You
never know, Pudza Borda wasn't exactly nice before this.

Speaker 8 (26:08):
This area's been hard hit. I mean Adelia back in
August of twenty twenty three, and then you had hurricanes
hit that same area in twenty sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen.
So that part of the country, as you're well aware,
it just doesn't get a break. And so this one
will also bring heavy rain. Some of the heaviest rain
will be on the northwest side of the storm, which
is typical, and that's going to drive heavy rain as

(26:31):
much as a foot up towards Atlanta not even have
urbanized flooding. Yeah, it can be just a huge problem
for those folks as well. So and you know, I
did you mentioned that it's been a little quiet. I'm
no hurricane expert, having you know, forecast most of my
career inland, but I've been reading some published papers and stuff,
and one of the compounding factors they believe is Saharan dust.

(26:54):
There's a lot more of it in the upper atmosphere
drifting over the Atlantic and not allowing the war to
warm to the levels that they had expected. So the
forecast for the hurricane season has been reduced a couple
of times because of that. The number of hurricanes and
the number of main storms, and the number of major storms.
A Category three would be a major storm.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Oh that's a major storm.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
That's a I would not I'll stick around through a
Cat too, but I will not stick around through a
Cat three because it's it's incredibly destructive and it's going
to be incredibly destructive when it lands. So I got
one more question from a listener. I want to get
in before we go here. Can the direction of the
wind preceding a thunderstorm predict the direction the storm is moving?

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And this is like, okay, so I am south of here,
and when the storms are coming from the north, the wind.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
Is whipping up from the south. So does that mean
that the wind is what pulling it? How does that work?

Speaker 8 (27:48):
So no, it's not going to tell you the direction
it's moving. The direction the storms are going to move
is based on the mid level winds that are pushing
them along. They can also form on a cold punch,
so they'll line up along the could front and march.

Speaker 6 (28:01):
As a team.

Speaker 8 (28:02):
But generally what you have is you have a giant vacuum.
So the wind ahead of the storm is being sucked in.
So as the storm is approaching you, the wind is
probably going to come from you to the storm, so
it's drawing the wind up. So depending on your location,
that wind could be coming in from an easterly direction
or a southeasterly direction. As the storm passes, you can

(28:23):
get a cold outflow and the wind will go in
the opposite direction. We track out clothed boundaries all the time,
so the wind within the individual thunderstorm is going to
be erratic. It's going to be sucking in ahead of
it and potentially blowing out behind it, and those directions
are going to change. But the overall movement of the
thunderstorms is going to be driven by generally a southwesterly wind,

(28:44):
So storms will migrate from southwest to northeast in most instances,
not always the case, and can always get what we
call a backdoor cold front, so it's not always indicative
of which way the storm is going to move, all right.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Dave Rasier, another informative we need to announced what our
weather is going to be like, I guess we kind
of brushed on a little bit talking about how nice
it is, so no big one coming up, is what
you're saying.

Speaker 8 (29:07):
Yeah, no, you know, a rob was asking me about Halloween.
Any chance it's going to be nasty?

Speaker 12 (29:12):
You know.

Speaker 8 (29:12):
The outlook for October still looks warm and drier than normal.
That's been the pattern through September. Our first breeze is
usually the seventh of the month of October. We just
don't see that happening. Our first know is the eighteenth.
I think that's a stretch this year, so you just
may have to wait for a little more of the fault.
Whether we enjoyed this past weekend.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
All right, Dave Fraser, we'll talk to you next week,
my friend.

Speaker 8 (29:31):
Thanks Manny, No, thank you.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
We will be right back.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
California Governor Gavin Newsom is making a fool of himself
by trying to limit political speech. I'll explain. In California,
a new law has been signed into being. It is
set to take effect immediately. This new law makes it
illegal to create and publish deep fakes related to elections.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Hang on, one second, got to pop up there? That
just popped up.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
It is illegal to create and publish deep fakes related
to elections one hundred and twenty days before election day and.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Sixty days thereafter.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
It also allows courts to stop distribution of the materials
and impose civil penalties.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
This is comical.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
The First Amendment doesn't exist to protect your right to
watch pornography.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
I mean, it's been interpreted that way, but.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
That's not why the founding fathers thought that it was
important to let everybody know you had the right to
free speech in the United States of America when they
drafted up the Bill of Rights.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
I mean, it's right there in the first one. Like
that to me says we think this one's kind of important.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
But the speech they were protecting was political speech, and
like it or not, deep fakes and the production thereof
is political speech. So any limits that are trying to
keep it out, well, that would be like saying, you
know what, you can't air any commercials for one hundred
and twenty days before an election. Nope, you can't do it.

(31:02):
It's as nine. This will be struck down one hundred percent.
And I would imagine that there's probably organizations that are
trying to be the first that faces penalties so they
can be the one to take the Supreme Court and
have it struck down. Now, if California wants to say
something along the lines of deep fakes must be identified

(31:24):
as deep fakes during this time of the election or whatever,
you know, you could make an argument there, just like
you have to disclose who pays for political advertising. You
could make those same kind of declarations necessary. But when
I saw this, I was like, what the Democrats are

(31:45):
becoming increasingly hostile to free speech because they want to
control it all and never have to answer for anything
that they might find unpleasant. And rather than just doing
what everybody is supposed to do, which is answer bad
speech with good speech, they.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Want to shut it all down.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
And as you recall, they want to shut down things
like the origins of COVID, they want to shut down
the Hunter by the laptop.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
I wonder why.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
It's very specific the things they want to shut down.
And now we have more and more Democrats. AOC has
come out and said something to the effect of this
free speech business has to be rained in.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
She didn't say it like that, but she's done it.
Kind of life.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
You know that.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Nancy Pelosi has aired now said we have to do
something about misinformation and disinformation. The problem is is that
we don't get to know who's deciding what is misinformation
or disinformation. As we saw on the last election cycle
when it's partisans, the information that its censored is very
specifically helpful to one side of the aisle. So no, no,

(32:54):
Gavin Newsom. And by the way, Elon Musk, it must be.
The only reason I would ever want to be like
Elon Musk rich is because I actually, how rich do
you think you have.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
To be before?

Speaker 3 (33:08):
You just have what you view as few money and
you're basically like, oh, yeah, Gavin Newsom, here's what I'm
gonna do. I'm gonna encourage people to post deep fake
videos of you on x come and get me like,
how rich do you have to be? Because that's few
money right there? Jk Rowling in her stance against the
transiting of our children, she has few money. She doesn't

(33:32):
need another dime, and she'll be just fine for the
rest of her life and the rest of her children's lives.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Right So, Elon Musk has few money. That's the only
reason I would want to be that rich.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Seems like there's a lot of annoying pressure that comes
along with that kind of money and you can't just
kind of live, well, you could live under the radar.
The Walton's kind of live under the radar, I guess. Yeah,
So that's gonna be fun to watch, and we'll see
exactly when they try to bring it to Colorado, because yeah,
I'm sure that'll happen sooner or later when we get back.

(34:10):
Public comment has gotten out of control and now Aurora
is taking steps to rein it back in.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
I'll explain after this.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
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Speaker 4 (34:44):
Well, welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
You know, at some points in your future a ride.
We need to dip our toe into this Diddy story.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
Because I just saw a Twitter thread.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
I don't want to get into it now because I
got a bunch of other stuff I want to talk about.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
But some of has gathered up a bunch of photographs
of which celebrities were at did these parties, and it
is a who's who.

Speaker 7 (35:07):
It's starting to seem like no one's safe.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Well, this certainly goes.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
A long way towards, in my mind, validating the stories
that have been told by people like Corey Feldman and
about being abused as children in the industry, and you know,
the sort of salaciousness that we all expect. I have
long said that I think if you're a parent who

(35:32):
is moving your kid to Hollywood to pursue a career
in Hollywood when they are children.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
You are not a good parent for variety of reasons.
You're just not.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Famous, so corrupting, so corrupting, especially for kids that don't
understand otherwise.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Anyway, let me get back to what's local.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
The Aurora City Council has been dealing with a few
issues when it comes to public comment, and I am
of the mindset about public comment where I think it
is incredibly important. And yet I've now watched enough and
I'm not talking about Aurora. I'm just talking about in
general city council, county commission meetings to know that a
vast majority of the time, the people who need to

(36:14):
hear what is.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Being said are generally not paying attention.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Anyway, not to say that it shouldn't happen, but there
has to be a level of decorum that is observed.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
Otherwise the meetings go on forever.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
And nobody was ever convinced by having a bunch of
people standing in a room yelling at them. You know,
maybe they capitulate, but they're not convinced. And yet in Aurra,
two things have been happening. Number One, they have allowed
comment when they are because they stream all the meetings,

(36:45):
so they've allowed comment to come in via phone or
online as part of the meetings. And now people hiding
behind handsets are calling in and making disparaging race and
anti LGBTQ comments during the meetings. And so in order

(37:06):
to prevent that, they are no longer going to allow
remote commentary.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
And if people have trouble.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Making it to the meeting, then they could ask someone
else if they would go make a statement on their behalf.
The second thing is that they are no longer going
to allow people to sign up for the meetings like
three hours in advance. Why is that Because Taitae Anderson
has been leading protests over the death death of Killing

(37:38):
Lewis at pretty much every meeting.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
They're yelling they're carrying on killing Lewis's mother, Ronda.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
James has been making public comment during every public comment
period from.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Her home in Georgia. She will no longer be allowed
to do that.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
So they're trying to they're trying to allow public comment,
but they're trying to make it less easy for bad
actors to hog the entire period by signing up early
when other people can't get there. So it's sad, really
that it's come to this. And you can make the

(38:19):
argument that if you know, if we have a truly
free society, then the white supremacist guy should be able
to yell whatever he wants in a city council meeting,
but that's not generally how it's worked. And as far
as the protests go, I mean, you know, again, no
one has ever been swayed by people standing and yelling
in your face.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
That's just not an effective strategy in my mind. So
that's what's happening in Aurora.

Speaker 10 (38:44):
Now.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Another thing update in Aurora. I am actually seeing this
in the New York Post. I didn't look to see
if they covered it locally here on any of the networks.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
From the New York Post.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Police and Aurora, Colorado have charged three suspects from a
viral video that showed heavily armed men breaking into an apartment,
a clip that made the Denver suburb a byword for
the spread of migrant crime.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
One of the men has now admitted that.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
He's a member of the violent Venezuelan gang Arragua, federal
law enforcement sources told the Post. Despite local cops saying
none of the men were connected to the gang, Dee
Freit surpa Acosta, twenty years old, fessed up during an
interview with immigration authorities that he was asked if he

(39:35):
had any gang affiliation by immigration officers and has trend
to Agua's signature crown tattoos to prove it.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
So weird, so weird. Now, all three of these criminals
have lengthy rap sheets. They've been in and.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Out of the country multiple times, and so we'll see
what happens. I'm sure they're going to be deported and
I'm sure are gonna come right back over the southern
border again. So that's just a fun.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
Story about a gang member. What we know is a
gang member, and the.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Fact that he was in those apartments that some people
said had been taken over by gang members, I'm sure
it's not connected. Sure it's completely a coincidence, and that
no other gang members were in that apartment.

Speaker 12 (40:24):
Gun.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
None, none of those other guys with guns. Nope, not
gang members, just people you know, going dove hunting or something.
A couple more local stories that I want to get
to that are just kind of things that I thought
were interesting but not worthy of spending a ton of
time on. One of them is that Douglas County has

(40:45):
now approved a camping dand with a fine of up
to one thousand dollars for each violation. Now, as a
Douglas County resident, I can tell you I do not
believe we have a single encampment in Douglas County. Maybe
there are some somewhere, I'm not sure, but I'm happy
that Douglas County is being proactive in this and creating
penalties and dissweding people. And the program that they have

(41:07):
in Douglas County called handouts don't help urge people not
to give handouts at intersections, but to donate to the
organizations that do the outreach programs in Douglas County to
help people who are on the fringes or even living
on the streets.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
Douglas County now has a camping van, just like Denver does.
By the way, just like Denver does, and we all
know how.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
Successful that has been in Denver.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Well, last story, and I wanted to throw this in
here because when I go to Cherry Creek, do you
ever go to Cherry Creek anymore times?

Speaker 9 (41:42):
You know?

Speaker 4 (41:42):
Every so often I will go to Cherry Creek because.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
There's restaurants down there that I really like, and sometimes
I want to go to the fancy mall on occasion.
I never buy anything in the fancy mall, but sometimes
I like to look and see what people who do
buy things that.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
The fancy mall are buying.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
And the reason I don't go more is because traffic sucks.
And now you've got to pay for parking at the mall.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
You can valet at a lot of the restaurants, which
is extremely convenient, but a lot.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Of those side street places they've got no parking and
it's just not fun to go down there and try
and find parking. Well, it is about to get really
interesting in Cherry Creek for the time being because Denver
City Council unanimously approved rezoning the west side of the
Cherry Creek Shopping Center and it is gonna have a thirteen.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
Acre mixed use community known as Cherry Creek West.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
So the projected build out could take a decade, and
the development as it's presented right now would deliver one
point six million square feet of offices and apartments on
the site. And obviously housing would be great, and the
project would be entirely served with underground parking.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
That is the only upside here, underground parking.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
So residents obviously not happy about this, and it's very
high density, which is not you know, what Cherry Creek
normally does. But Cherry Creek, unlike Downtown Denver, a lot
of the businesses that left Downtown Denver moved to Cherry Creek,
so they don't have a ton of vacancies for office

(43:25):
space and things of that nature in Cherry Creek.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
So it makes sense that they'd want to build something
like this.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
But I feel like this is going to fundamentally change
But I you know, I don't know, maybe Cherry Creek
has had these big swings that I mean, when the
Cherry Creek Mall was built, any of you guys that
were living here when the Cherry Creek Mall was built,
that probably was incredibly disruptive as well. So I'm just wondering.
I'd love to know five six, six nine. Oh, if
you live in Cherry Creek, love to know how you

(43:52):
feel about it. But if you go to Cherry Creek,
is this a positive or you know?

Speaker 4 (44:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Hey, Mandy, if you want to learn Spanish, you should
go to the flat Urns Mall and Broomfield on the weekends.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Broomfield is so far from me.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Broomfield is like you should just say, Mandy, you should
drive Awayoming. That's how it feels to drive to Broomfield
so far. Elways is closing there because of that. Yes,
indeedy they are, they are. There was a Fox News story.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
About Douglas County and the lack of homelessness. Well, Douglas County,
we've had a few here and there, you know that
stand by the roadways and beg for money. I just
I don't think people give them money. So yeah, who decides?

(44:49):
Who decides? Well, jeeves? Shootoot, shoot shoot. That's not what
I wanted to read at all.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
This person about the city council meetings, similar to a
Worris City council meetings. Council Colorado Springs courtrooms have had
a rash of recent video conference hearings that were interrupted
by some bad actors hacking into the meeting and showing porn.
Oh that's fantastic. That's that's not good.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
We've all gotten a little too comfortable with these online meetings.
I actually like it.

Speaker 10 (45:20):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
I love an online meeting. I still don't have a
nice background when I'm at home.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
My background is still terrible. Maybe I should just get
like a curtain, a rod, just like a curtain and
then draw some stuff on it. Or I could steal old.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Thing from Woody page and just do a chalkboard behind me,
you know what, different drawings every time I'm doing.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
Anyway, we have a couple of things on the ballot.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
That we're gonna be talking about. By the way, Ross
and I were talking this morning, I think we're gonna
do a voter Guy collapse this year, so you can
see what both of us think in one place. Now,
for the most part, Ross and I completely agree on
a vast majority of our selections, but our rationale to

(46:13):
get there could be a little bit different. So I
think we're going to do a collaboration on our voter guide.
But hopefully we'll have that out like Monday, because ballot
drop at the beginning of October. Mandy, I won't go
north of Landmark living in Parker. Have moved everything to
the Springs Support Air Force Sports, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
Et cetera.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
It just feels much safer and then Denver and the
drive is easier. So yeah, I'm kind of with you,
kind of with you on Matt. I live in Cherry Creek.
There's a lot of construction going on, but we figured
it out. Still like living here. This project's going to
be pretty big and pretty disruptive, although I'm guessing much
like when they do downtown, they can confine it to

(46:53):
that area.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
I don't know, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
I feel like I need to take my passport to
the outlet mall off I twenty five and one hundred
and thirty sixth Avenue. I just had an experience in
a Walmart where I could not find a single Walmart
employee that spoke English, and I was like, you know,
not for nothing. I'm now not going to buy anything
that I came in here to get because no one

(47:18):
can help me find it.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
No one are you learning any Spanish being married to
your Spanish speaking wife.

Speaker 6 (47:24):
I'm always trying yeah, always attempting poquito, poquito, pekito.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Yeah, because that would have been nice because I had
nothing and they felt bad. But I was like, yeah,
I need help and no one can help me. That's fine,
Absolutely fine. One more story about Denver Real Quick Denver's
median home price and how it compares internationally now or
not internationally, that's silly. Nationally, the annual income buyers needed

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to afford a house fell for the first time since
twenty twenty, driven by the first annual decline and mortgage
rates in three years. Now, in order to afford a
typical home nationwide, you would have to earn one hundred
and fifteen four hundred and fifty four per year. That's
down one point four percent since last year. But what

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does it look like in Denver. Well, the report ranked
Denver twelfth among the fifty most populous metro areas in
the country. When it comes to housing affordability. The median
home price is five hundred and eighty six thousand dollars.
That means the median is different than the average. Okay,
the median is half the houses sold.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
In Denver are more than that.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
Half the houses sold in the metro are less than that,
So that's the middle price, the median home price. The
income here to afford a median priced home is one
fifty two five thirty seven. The median household income in
Denver is one oh nine seven to seventy one. And
that's why Denver feels unaffordable for a lot of people.

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Mandy can't shop at the Walmart? Why can't I shop
at the Walmart?

Speaker 4 (49:05):
What's wrong with the Walmart?

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Don't go hating on Walmart, Mandy, A great background is
one of the folding Asian style screens.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Oh, that would be good. That'd be really good.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Do you know if Douglas County can compel a homeless
person to pay the one thousand dollars fine if they're
only income is social Security? I'm guessing that they can
compel them. But whether or not you can get blood
from a stone, I don't know. Let's see underground parking
next to Cherry Creek prone to flooding. Also believe some

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of that area used to be a dump, like an
actual dump. A Rod, Google, did Cherry Creek in Denver
used to be a dump? Look that up for me,
Mandy A Rod not to worry. Then married to my
wife for fifteen years, and she knows zero Spanish. I
am fluently bilingual.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
Here we go.

Speaker 6 (49:58):
Make sure this is Cherry Creek in Colorado on second,
because it looks like that's true. Because of flooding, the
area around the creek, Cherry Creek was unsuitable for most
uses and became the city dump shut on. The original
Cherry Creek Shopping Center was built on the former dump
by Denver architect developer Temple hoin Buell in nineteen forty nine.

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This from Cherry Creek East dot org.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
Wow, that's fantastic. That's so ironic. In the mall is
built on a dump.

Speaker 6 (50:35):
Yeah, in nineteen eighty four, the Cherry Creek Steering Community
blah bla, Oh that's nothing related, never mind.

Speaker 7 (50:39):
But yeah, there you go.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (50:42):
The redevelopment of the Cherry Creek Shopping Center into the
Cherry Creek Mall that you see today was completed in
nineteen ninety.

Speaker 7 (50:49):
Wow, built on the built on the former dump in
forty nine.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
That's actually really cool.

Speaker 6 (50:57):
Like like I said, because they had no choice because
like with the flooding, it was unsuitable for really anything
else other than being a dump.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
That's fantastic. I don't know why I like that so much.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
It's almost like it's almost like a Cinderella story, this
crappy piece of land, nothing could go there except a dump.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
And then after the dump gets fulled up with everybody's garbage,
what can we do with it?

Speaker 3 (51:18):
We can make it into a beautiful, sparkling shopping center
with all the fence and clothing and brands in it.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
It's the Cinderella Story of the ages. Yes, it was
a dump.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
We're getting a lot of confirmation on the text line
that you didn't know. The original Cherry Creek shopping center
of late nineteen forties was considered to be the most
innovative design.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
Ever, how do you guys know this?

Speaker 3 (51:42):
The Walmart near me has closed all the self checkout
lanes and usually only have two or three checkout lanes
open with a real live persons working in them.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
Maybe they can build that big landfill east of town there, lol, Haha.
Let's see here. Apparently you can use the Walmart app
and find stuff in the.

Speaker 7 (52:06):
Store one hundred percent actual.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
Well, what if I don't know exactly what it's called.

Speaker 6 (52:10):
Uh, you can roughly type in like the the thing
you're looking for, not specifically like the brand name right like,
it'll give you a rough idea of where things are.

Speaker 7 (52:21):
Use it all, right, here.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
We go anyway.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Oh, here's a question totally unrelated, but I'm gonna read it. Hey, Mandy,
this is an email. We're headed to Denver for our
first time from Louisville. Can you give me an area
to stay in a few moss places to see? I've
been given recommendations to stay away from downtown the Dairy
Block and oh, the Dairy Block and helseyon where two
we're highly recommended. Ideally I'd like to see Myleheigh Stadium

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red rocks and capture a snapshot of the vibe. We'll
be driving from Crested Butte and we'll be staying in
Denver for two nights. Miss you on whas here And
I know her mom too, Lorie Elkins. So if we're
not going to stay in downtown, where do you stay?
I don't know hotels? I know the hotels downtown.

Speaker 7 (53:06):
Hmmm, I don't have.

Speaker 6 (53:09):
Like specific like hotel, but in terms of location, no pressure.
Probably just north out.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Of Denver, like more like around like just a little
like south of Thornton. There's some nice.

Speaker 7 (53:21):
Places you can probably stay.

Speaker 6 (53:23):
I would suggest, you know, really every other suburb really
isn't somewhere to write home about terms to stay.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
Yeah, yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
I'm thinking if they want to go to Red Rocks,
maybe something out west there. We got to get that together.
Got to get it together for LORI help her come
out and have a great time. Isn't it sad that
people are like, yeah, void downtown. Isn't that just sad
because we have some great hotels downtown. I love, love,
love the hotel Tautro. It is great hotel, she said,

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the stadium. So we'll find we'll figure it out.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
What world it is?

Speaker 7 (53:58):
Probably not somewhere you want to go.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
No, we're not going to send it to Broto. Okay,
let's take a time out. When we get back.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
We have a story about Tell You Ride Ski Resort
and if I could give them the mom look right
now and be like, I am so disappointed in you
when you hear what they did, and honestly, oh, this
is such a dumb pr move. I'll share with that
next Tell Your Ride Ski Resort. You guys talk about
a self inflicted wound. First of all, I had no

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idea Tell your Ride is one of the ski towns.
I have not been to Tell Your Ride yet. Have
you ever been there a rod Tell You Ride Colorado?

Speaker 7 (54:32):
I haven't been since I was a child.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
It's part of the state that I have not made
it to yet. I haven't gone to, like Paonia and
Montrose and like the whole area. I've been to Crested
Butte haven't been to the Four Corners either. So I've
got places to go in Colorado still. But Tell Your
Ride just gave themselves a black eye over something that
I have to believe could not have been costing them

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very much money. For as long as any of the
locals can remember, the Tell Your Ride Ski Resort.

Speaker 4 (55:06):
Has been giving.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
People local citizens who turn eighty or older free ski passes.

Speaker 4 (55:15):
So this has been like something that people.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Who live and Tell Your Ride get all excited about
because they're like, Oh, when I turn eighty, I can
get my free ski pass a to Tell You Ride
Ski Resort. And then the Tell You Ride Ski Resort
just said we're not doing it anymore, And I'm thinking
to myself, how many people on a daily basis. First
of all, you know they're probably skiing in the middle
of the week, right, So how many people over eighty

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actually even live in Tell Your Ride And out of
those eighty, how many of them actually ski on a
regular enough basis to create a burden for the Tell
your Ride Ski resort to not want to give out
these free passes anymore.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
Now. The only thing, and this is I thought about
this this morning. I was like, what, who decided to
make this change? And why in the world?

Speaker 3 (56:09):
Why would they make this change when I just laid
out the reasons why it cannot be costing them. It's
not like the slopes are overrun with eighty five year
olds from Tell Your Ride that are skiing free, right,
That's not happening.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
The only thing I can think of, and I bet
you this is it.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
By the way, Fox thirty one reached out to the
scale Tell your Ride Ski Resort to ask why the
change was made.

Speaker 4 (56:32):
They have not heard back yet. My guess is because
a lawyer got involved, and I just have this feeling
that it went something like this.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
You know, I mean, people over eighty are far more
likely to break something if they fall on the mountain,
and here we are encouraging them to continue skiing after
they are an age where many people of that age
start to deal with, you know, bones that aren't as strong,
bodies that aren't as strong.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
I bet you as a lawyer, and I'm not one
of those. We bot hate lawyers. My dad used to
be a lawyer.

Speaker 7 (57:07):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
But why in the world, Oh, tell your ride was
bought by Veil Corp. What do you expect? Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Somebody took umbrage a rod with our conversation about people
driving around without their license plates. Oh, somebody said, I
don't know, the text is long gone, but it said something.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
The effect of why don't you use just mind your
own business?

Speaker 3 (57:38):
And I was like, well, see, it's it's about being
a good citizen. And when you are a good citizen
and you're paying the dumb ass taxes that we have
to pay to get our cars registered, and then you
see all these other people that are not being good
citizens and not paying their dumb ass taxes to get
their car registered.

Speaker 4 (57:54):
It's annoying.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
Because it details a disrespect of their civic responsibility.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
And I hate it. I hate gigantic registration fees.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
I think it's stupid, especially because se dot is squandering
all that money on dumbass ways to get us out
of our cars.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
So, yeah, I don't care.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
And so I said back, it's about being a good citizen,
and this person said, minding your.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
Own business is being a good citizen.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
Except whose role is it to encourage others by shaming
them on the radio to do the right thing and
be a good citizen.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
I'm just asking, Mandy, have you been to the Swiss
Alps of Colorado? You r ridge? Yodel a he who
I knew exactly exactly what you were doing there, yodeler Uh, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
They're probably worried about being sued for injuries. Exactly right, exactly, Mandy.
I think everyone and Tell You're Right is rich. Yeah,
but people can be house rich and cash poor. If
you've lived in tel You're right for forty years in
the same house, you are house.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
Rich, and you could be cash poor. You could be
cash rich too. I don't know, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
I don't think Tell your Right has been bought by
Veil Resorts. They do have a marketing agreement with them
on the full epic pass, because otherwise Fox would have
just reached out to Veil Resorts. You're right, Texter, Thank
you for the clarification, Mandy, what do you think the
percentage of those expired.

Speaker 4 (59:27):
Plates are that do not have insurance? Well, it's my.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
Understanding that if you don't have an up to date registration,
you cannot buy auto insurance. It's our business if you
don't have valid plates on you're on the roadway, fair Point, Texter,
fair Point, Mandy. Does the state DMV charge the a
fee if they register their vehicle after the prescribed date? Yes,

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you were supposed to pay the difference from whenever you
are supposed to register the car to the point where
you register the car. So if you waited a year
or two years, you have to pay the registration fees
for those two years. But I think and I don't
know who told me this, but I think they are

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they're able to waive those fees.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
But I don't know what the I don't know what
the situation is there, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Why are there so many postal trucks without license plates?
My guess is is maybe they were stolen, because if
I'm looking to steal a license plate to slap on
another car, well, they should have fleet vehicle for license plates.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
Though I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
I don't know the answer to that question. I got
a bunch of postal workers though. Is that a postal
thing or is that just where are the license plates going?

Speaker 5 (01:00:42):
Five?

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
Six six nine oh? Text me the answer, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
I wish there was a monthly penalty after your plates expire.
Problem solved there is You're one hundred percent?

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
Is true, Mandy? Not true of the on the plates.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
The worst ones are the exotic car owners. I call
my friends out all the time, like they're just not
getting their plates. What not true on the plates? Which part?

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
What are you talking about? Clarify?

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
If I see a car with no license plate, I
assume they have no insurance. I stay far away. I
will never park to somebody with an unregistered plate or
no plate. That's from the Texter.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
I live in a Uror. I see twenty five or
thirty unregistered cars every day. UM wow, you guys, the
license plate thing is now going off on the text line.
Obviously we hit a nerve.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
And I'm right when you see people not doing their
civic responsibility and you start to feel like a sucker, right,
you're like, what hey, Rod said it the other day,
Why am I doing this? Why am I doing the
right thing? When everybody else is doing the wrong thing. Well,
I'll tell you why, because you're a person of good character. Anyway,
Fees are twenty five bucks a month, says this texture
until one hundred dollars max.

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
Don't ask me how I know there will be no
follow up questions.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
SEETA just gave the town of Frasiery two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars grant for a bike park.

Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
As Highway forty through town disintegrates. Yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
I see a lot of fancy new BMW's or Lexus
with expired plates.

Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
Well they should be pulled over and given a ticket.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Perfectly fine with that. I don't think anybody gets you know,
come on, so yeah, oh boy, yeah, a lot of
you unhappy, Mandy. Are they enforcing expired tags, etc. To
clean the place up before Trump gets here, like cleaning
San Francisco.

Speaker 4 (01:02:42):
I can assure you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
That a vast majority of the government here in the
Colorado Denver metro area does not give a rats.

Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
Ask what Donald Trump sees when he comes here.

Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
If he comes here, Mandy, I watched a person remove
a temporary plate and replace it with another temporary plate.

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
Hey, in their.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Defense, when I got my car. It took so long
for the Department of Motor Vehicles to send me my
new plate. I had to get a new temporary plate.
So there are reasons for that are that are not
the driver's fault. Mandy Aspen Highlands and snowmass used to
have a free pass for eighty year olds. My father
in law kept skiing until he got his pass.

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
He didn't ski one more day. All he wanted was
his pass. Oh, that's kind of cute, kind of sad.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
I pay more for uninsured motorists in six months than
I used to pay for total.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
Liability in a year. Sad, But for true, if you don't.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Have uninsured motorists coverage, you could find yourself screwed.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
So get it today. We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
We were looking for Mark Zuckerberg to lead the way
when it came to politics. Well, after doing something and
you know, Mark Zuckerberg seems like a decent egg, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
He seems like he would be a decent human.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
He's a nerd who has made billions of dollars with
Facebook and Meta and everything else. But last election cycle
he stepped up with his Zuckerbucks. I can't remember the
name of the actual organization. It was part of his
foundation where they gave UH grants and the purpose was
to give grants to any voting district that needed it

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to help mitigate the effects of COVID and ensure that
people could come and vote safely. A bunch of Democrat
cities took him up on it. No Republicans took him
up on it, and a.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
Lot of people said, look, those Zuckerbucks they were used
to cheat.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
Well, I think this is just wild speculation on my
part because I can't read into his mind or has sold.
But he strikes me as the sort there was, Like, dude,
I was trying to help, and now I'm being accused
of all of these things because none of the Republican
cities took me up on it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:51):
So he has now said he's done, He's out no more.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
He's been complaining to fellow billionaires.

Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
Yeah, they all have meetings. Did you guys know this.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
The Allen and Company conference? They call it summer camp
for billionaires? Aer Did you get your invitation to the
Allen and Company conference?

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
I haven't. I haven't yet. Did mine get lost? Did
you see it?

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Wellingess to this year.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
Maybe we'll just hold our fingers crossed for next year.
But apparently Mark Zuckerberg has been complaining to people about
the blowback that came from him doing things with his philanthropy,
and he has now admitted that he is He's got
a bunch of employees that are trying to push him
further to the left, and he's done. He now has

(01:05:43):
decided he's like, look, I'm a classical liberal.

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
And he's just not going to participate anymore. So what
does this mean for Facebook?

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Because Facebook was very active in censoring information during the
last election cycle, and it is uh, I just want
to know what that means for Facebook.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
Listen to this from this New York Times article.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
Privately, mister Zuckerberg now considers his personal politics to be
more like libertarianism or classical liberalism, according to people who
have spoken.

Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
With him recently.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
That includes a hostility to regulation that restricts business and
embrace the free markets and globalism, and an openness to
social justice reforms, but only if it stops short of
what he considers far left progressivism. And mister Zuckerberg and
his wife, doctor Priscilla Chan have been privately aghast about
what they see as the rise of anti Semitism on

(01:06:40):
college campuses, including their alma mater, Harvard.

Speaker 4 (01:06:45):
Does that to you? Does anybody else like hear that?
And go?

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
Did Mark Zuckerberg get red pilled? Because it kind of
seems like maybe he did. Now he hasn't changed sides. Okay,
we're not gonna go crazy here, but he's this. This
is significant when you've got one of the richest guys
in the world saying I'm out. You know, that's a
big deal for politicians. Kamala Harris's campaign just got a

(01:07:10):
big fat cash infusion from Silicon Valley and the tech bros. Now,
I'm gonna tell you, I think there's a lot of
these guys that just march lockstep with whatever the prevailing
wind is. And if the prevailing wind shifts and people
start to see the big dogs Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg

(01:07:31):
dipping out and saying no man or even better, and
I mean this even better in a political sense, not
good for the country sense, because sometimes those things aren't
necessarily immediately the same. If Kamala Harris gets re elected
and she manages to raise taxes on everyone rich, those
tech pros, they're gonna have a much different perspective in.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
The next election cycle about Democrats. So fingers crossed Kammally can.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
Get it done if she gets elected, not fingers.

Speaker 4 (01:08:00):
That she gets elected. To be clear, I just want
to make sure that no one thinks I said that.

Speaker 6 (01:08:05):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
Coming up at the next hour, I have a bunch
of stories for the two minute blog two minute drill rather,
and then I've got a bunch of stories for us
to talk about after that. If you have not looked
at the blog today, I have some really good videos.
One is an old video by Milton Friedman that I
put on the blog today because he did this at
the end of the nineteen seventies when inflation was much

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higher than.

Speaker 4 (01:08:28):
It is now.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
But he explains where where inflation comes from. And if
you have anyone in your life who's like one of
those people who's like the inflation is because of corpet greed.
This is really written at like a fifth grade level.
So you should watch that video with your friends. And
in this next hour we're going to get into a

(01:08:50):
piece by doctor Thomas Krana Winner, who is on Ross's
show with some regularity. This is on the blog, and
if you have to try and explain why people like
Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
Oh my gosh, you need to go click through on
this thread and read it. Today. We're going to do
the two minute trill when we get back.

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Speaker 5 (01:09:36):
The two minute drill at two. Hey, we're gonna go
to two minute warnings rapid fire stories of the day
that we don't have more time for play check. Let's
call this so it will take longer than two minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:09:48):
Are are you out?

Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
Here's Mandy connall Ah.

Speaker 4 (01:09:51):
You guys.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
You may have heard or seen the breathless headlines shots
fired into Kamala Harris campaign headquarters, but then you read
this story and don't get me wrong, I think this
is stupid.

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
Whoever did it?

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
It's just an AS nine thing to do and there's
no place for any of this. But the shots fired
were from a baby gun. It was like the middle
of the night when no one.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
Was there, and it just left little holes in the
plate glass window.

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
So can we stop acting like she has now survived
her own assassination attempt because someone idiot shot at her building.

Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
I mean, I'm not saying that someone didn't do it.
I'm just saying, let's put it in its proper perspective,
which is not important at all. I guess that's really
all I have to say about that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:38):
Drill it too.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
So consumer confidence is a survey of how people think
the economy is actually doing, and the Conference Sports Consumer
Confidence Index fell almost seven points in September, the biggest
monthly droped since September of twenty twenty one.

Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
Now why does this matter?

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
It is?

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
It matters because these are consumers that are surveyed, and
consumers are feeling like things are not going quite as well.
About thirty one percent of consumers said jobs were plentiful.
That's down two points from August. The share who said
jobs were hard to get jumped up one point five
points to eighteen point three percent in August as well.

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Concerns about inflation haven't really totally supplanted by job market worries,
yet consumers pointing out that inflation had receded, So that's good,
the Conference Sport said, write in responses about election concerns
remain below those seen ahead of the twenty twenty and
twenty sixteen elections. So people are worried about the economy,

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which is not good news because people often vote on
their own personal economy in the elections. Well, it's not
good if you're the incumbent, which is Vice President Harris
Drill it too. He is bringing sexy back, and I
guess his arrest in the Hampton will not ruin the tour,
as he told police. Justin Timberlake will be performing at

(01:12:06):
Paul Arena on January twenty eighth, and I am going
to this show because I want to see Justin Timberlake.

Speaker 4 (01:12:12):
I bet he's great in concert. You go see JT,
would you?

Speaker 6 (01:12:16):
I'm pretty sour from that super Bowl performance years back?

Speaker 7 (01:12:20):
Not great?

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
Wait a minute, wait a minute, the Janet Jackson super
Bowl performance.

Speaker 7 (01:12:23):
No, no, he had the he had the next one.
Didn't he perform? Hang on one second, Timberlake super Bowl?

Speaker 4 (01:12:31):
I mean the one that came Jackson is the one
that I read No.

Speaker 6 (01:12:34):
No, no, no, no, twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen, and he
was not good, not good, not good.

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
Okay, Well, maybe I'll go see Justin Timberlake. Whatever, never mind,
forget I did the whole story. Fine, I'm sorry, you
can bring right down.

Speaker 4 (01:12:47):
Fine, drill it too bad news. Retired NFL quarterback Brett Farve.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Says he has Parkinson's disease and doesn't take a big
leap to think that Parkinson's disease, which is a disease
that affects your brain and is kind of a in
the variety of wasting diseases. We just lost a friend
to this disease fairly recently, and it's not a fun
way to go out.

Speaker 4 (01:13:11):
It is a very challenging.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
Disease, and for a guy like Brett Farr, who has
spent his whole life as an athlete, I'm guessing this
could be really miserable. I'm hoping that he does as
well as Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, he was
in Back to the Future Marty McFly.

Speaker 7 (01:13:32):
Oh uh, oh god, I go to a fox.

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
Yes, Oh wow, that was the sweating thing right there.
I couldn't get that. But best wishes to Brett Farr.
You know the girl that he was involved with, well,
he wasn't involved with. He was sending the unwanted messages
to that was working for the Jets sideline. She sent
out some really nasty commentary about this, like basically, isn't
karma bitch? And I thought, that is not a flattering look, lady,

(01:13:57):
not a flattering look at all.

Speaker 7 (01:13:59):
Oh yeah, Jen, Yeah whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:14:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
I just thought, you know what, Sometimes I grew up
in the South, where if you can't say anything nice,
don't say anything at all.

Speaker 4 (01:14:07):
Maybe she should have done that instead.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
It too really good story in the Westwood Westward right
now about downtown businesses who are struggling to stay open
under endless construction, who are now being hassled by the
City of Denver's Community Planning and Development Office for their signage.
This is just another example of why government sucks. If

(01:14:31):
you can't give these businesses a break, well, their entire
lives are being disrupted by all the crap you're doing
to downtown. This is why people hate government. In one
fell swoop and one last story for veterans right now,
if you get a text message saying, hey, this is
the VA, you may qualify from benefits. It is not

(01:14:52):
a scam now, just to be sure, you can hang
up and call the VA. But they're actually doing outreach
to veterans, you may qualify for benefits.

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
That they are not getting. This is new for the VA,
which usually does all in its power to keep people
from getting the benefits their own. Check it out.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
I've got that link to the story in the Denver
Post as well. And have you heard about the Dubai
Chocolate Bar. It is a chocolate bar with this dessert
that they have in the Middle East that is made
up of shredded filo dough and pistachio cream and then
it's covered with chocolate and I want this so bad.
And now there are three places in Colorado that are

(01:15:30):
doing a knockoff version. So if you like me, if
you like me have wanted to try this thing since
you saw it on social media, absolutely now you can
find it at Reem's Bakery I know where that one is,
Colorado Cocoa Pod, which is an online bakery, and then
Conw's Corner Cafe on twenty ninth Avenue in Denver. So

(01:15:54):
these are expensive. Don't be thinking that you're gonna just
go get one and it's going to be like, you know,
a five bucks or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
They're like twenty bucks. But they are really, really, really
challenging to make thank you, ay Rod.

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
According to some users on social media, some Rocky Mountain
Chocolate Factory locations are said to carry the Dubai chocolate bar,
but the Denver Gazette could not find it. A representative
of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory explained that the businesses are
individually operated franchisees, so call ahead and check to see
if location near you has it. I will have a

(01:16:31):
full report after I have it. We're gonna take a
quick time out. Okay, now I can take a break.

Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
He used to be a former.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
White House while he is a former White House OMB
Chief Economists, that's the Office of Management and Budget Chief Economists.
Doctor Van Skin joining me at two thirty. We haven't
talked about the fact that Congress just passed a continuing
resolution because they refuse to do what their job is
and that has pass.

Speaker 4 (01:16:56):
Different budgets for different departments.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
So we get another continuous resolution that keeps spending going
until the end of December.

Speaker 4 (01:17:04):
Does anybody really think.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
They're going to pass twelve budget bills by the end
of December. No, they're not, which means we'll get another
omnibus spending bill which is going to be chock full
of pork and deficits spending. So we're going to talk
to him in just a few minutes. I want to
dip into this Gallop.

Speaker 4 (01:17:18):
Poll real quick. We see a lot of polls like, Oh, you're.

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
Gonna vote for Kamala Harris, You're gonna vote for Donald Trump,
and people are not necessarily looking at the underlying sort
of mood of the country. And Gallup has so Gallup
measures the president. They call it the presidential election environment.

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
Now lately they're looking at things.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
That are in relationship to past presidential election outcomes, and
they have a whole list of things, things like party
identification and leaning, prey better able to handle most important problems,
US satisfaction, economic confidence, party better able to keep America prosperous,
presidential job approval, party favorable ratings, party better able to

(01:18:14):
keep America safe from international threats, preference for government activity,
and in all of those categories, Republicans are leading Democrats
according to Gallup. So when it comes to party identification
and leaning, forty eight percent currently lean Republican and are

(01:18:38):
Republican forty five percent Democratic are lean Democratic party better
able to handle the most important problem. The Republican party
is viewed at forty six percent, the Democratic Party forty.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
One percent.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
US satisfaction twenty two percent satisfied.

Speaker 4 (01:19:01):
That's not a good number.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
Economic confidence a minus twenty eight index score. Party better
able to keep America prosperous Democrats forty four percent, Republicans
fifty percent. Presidential job approval thirty nine percent. That modes
well for Republicans party favorable ratings.

Speaker 4 (01:19:21):
I was kind of shocked by this, you guys. The
Republican Party is at forty three percent approval, Democratic Party
forty two percent approval.

Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
Party better able to keep America safe from international threats,
and this is not even close. Republican Party fifty four percent,
Democratic Party forty percent preference for government activity fifty five
percent say do less, only forty one percent say do more.
And that, of course is good for Republicans. Congressional job

(01:19:53):
approval twenty percent approval. Obviously, no one is going to
find that helpful at all. So these numbers are kind
of and this is from September third to the fifteenth,
so you're seeing polls about the election, but then you're
seeing what people really believe, and one has to wonder

(01:20:14):
will people's visceral hatred of Donald Trump overwhelm the things
that they normally vote on. If that answer is yes,
then Kamala Harris wins. But if that answer is no,
then Donald Trump, I think, gets another term. But of
course I'm a terrible prognosticator, so don't ask me who's.

Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
Going to win.

Speaker 3 (01:20:32):
When we get back, we are going to talk about
something that I believe should be at the center of
every campaign and yet it isn't, and that is the
national debt.

Speaker 4 (01:20:41):
We'll do that next.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
Doctor Van skin he's an economist and a smart guy,
and he's as annoyed as I am that once again
Congress has completely abdicated their responsibility to pass budget bills
and have just passed another continuing resolution.

Speaker 4 (01:20:56):
Fans, welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (01:21:00):
Hi many, it's a pleasure with you.

Speaker 10 (01:21:01):
Thank you for having me on. And I am just
as upset about the deficit spending as you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
Now, what is your background? Give my listeners a little
bit of window of who you are.

Speaker 10 (01:21:10):
Vance Yeah, so I worked at the Trump White House.

Speaker 12 (01:21:15):
I was the chief economist for the Office of Management
and Budget for about a year from June twenty nineteen
and May of twenty twenty. I've also worked with a
lot of state think tanks and national think tanks across
the country, and do a lot.

Speaker 10 (01:21:27):
Of other work.

Speaker 12 (01:21:27):
I also have a podcast called let pul Prosper where
I talk a lot about these key important issues about
fiscal budgeting and monetary policy and a whole bunch of
other issues.

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
So, vance if you were part of the Trump administration,
then I'm gonna ask you a pointed question, because for me,
that was a big area of disappointment, and COVID threw
everything into chaos, so we don't know what would have
happened had his economic policies been allowed to unfold.

Speaker 4 (01:21:50):
In a natural way. So I'm gonna concede that point.

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
But spending in the Trump administration, even before COVID was
well beyond what I thought it should have been. Is
there any hope that in another Trump administration we're going
to see And I'm not asking to speak for the
Trump campaign, by the way, I'm not doing that, But
what are your thoughts about the level of seriousness that
debt and deficit spending are seen in that administration?

Speaker 12 (01:22:17):
Well, I also share your concern about how much was
being spent during the Trump of years. Of course, it
was Congress that spent passes the budgets, but the president
could have vetoed.

Speaker 10 (01:22:27):
Them and done more to do that, and we were
trying to behind the scenes.

Speaker 12 (01:22:31):
We were trying to push it to have lower spending
at the end of the day, and you're right, COVID
blew that out of the water even more with trillions
of dollars, and then Biden administration came in and put
that spending on steroids. So we've run up of another
twelve trillion dollars or so the last four plus years
as massive, and we're spending at trillion dollars just on
that interest payments on the debt alone.

Speaker 10 (01:22:49):
It's just ridiculous.

Speaker 12 (01:22:50):
And so one of the things that I'm still concerned about, though,
to your point, Mandy, is that the president hasn't taught
much about the budget. I mean, during that last presidential
debate or even the first one, I don't even think
spending was mentioned at all.

Speaker 10 (01:23:01):
Nor the depsits were mentioned.

Speaker 5 (01:23:02):
It at all.

Speaker 12 (01:23:03):
And this is a huge concern for me that I
talk a lot about and I know you do too
as well. So this is something we've got to get
control over, and it's both parties. I mean, this is
a bipartisan spending crisis is the way I like to
put it. That's been happening for decades now, and we've
got to get under control. There are a few, you know,
that are out there that will talk a good game,

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and I think are trying to do good things. Center
Rand Paul had his six penny plan, which is basically
cut six percent over the next few years and balance
the budget, but that was rejected today. At the same time,
they're spending in the cr bill more and more. So
it's a massive spending problem.

Speaker 3 (01:23:39):
Ran Paul I lived in Kentucky for three years and
I'm a huge Rand Paul fan, along with Congressman Thomas Massey,
who has been very vocally opposed to the continuing resolutions
that we're seeing.

Speaker 8 (01:23:49):
Why.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
I mean, we're just going to have.

Speaker 3 (01:23:52):
To get to a debt crisis situation before anybody in
Congress takes so seriously. That's what I'm afraid of. And
what does that look for look like for the American people.

Speaker 12 (01:24:03):
Well, unfortunately, I think we're seeing a lot of that now.
We saw higher interest rates, right, the interest rates soward.
That's a big part of what you see during a
debt crisis. We saw inflation soar because the Federal Reserve
printed a lot of that money. I mean their balance.
She went from four trillion to nine trillion. It's still
seven trillion. It's way too high. You know, the Federal
Reserve cut interest rates by fifty basis points last week,
and I think that.

Speaker 10 (01:24:23):
Was a mistake.

Speaker 12 (01:24:25):
I think we're going to fall into the same traps
we did during the nineteen seventies whenever they cut interest
rates too fast and inflation shot up again. And now
we have even a worse situation because you know, Congress
is overspending more than they were back then, and so
this is going to lead more to increases and ammunition
for the Federal Reserve to print money, increase inflation in
the economy. And so I'm very concerned about a debt crisis.

(01:24:46):
And the spending crisis is happening now. A lot of
people will blame it on the Trump tax cuts and
other revenue issues, but it's not a revenue problem. This
is clearly a spending problem. And I think what we've
got to do is cut spending today and then strain
the growth of spending over time. If we do that,
we could find a better path forward.

Speaker 10 (01:25:04):
Not only for the spending situation, but for the economy.

Speaker 12 (01:25:07):
Because all this deficits and debt really matters also to
main street and on the economy because interest rates are
soaring and people can't afford homes and things that nature.
This is a major problem that's driven by Washington DC.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
I have the video on the blog today by Milton
Friedman from like the late seventies, maybe nineteen eighty. I'm
not sure exactly what the ear is, but he does
this kind of like walk through on inflation, and it's
really at a fifth grade level.

Speaker 4 (01:25:32):
I mean, that's why I put it on the blog.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
I'm like, if you have somebody who doesn't understand this,
But what it comes down to what we're seeing right
now and we've seen since, especially since COVID, is that
the Federal Reserve is enabling the federal government's spending by
continuing to print money and buying treasury bonds. So they
are if the Fed doesn't keep printing money, then no
one's going to buy those treasury bonds, and the federal

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government cannot continue spending.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
Even though the Federal Reserve is supposed to be a
non you know.

Speaker 3 (01:26:01):
It's supposed to be a non political entity. So people
need to understand that we flooded the money supply. We
flooded the country with money. We flooded all the markets
with money from the FED, and that's why we are
now paying the invisible tax that is inflation.

Speaker 4 (01:26:15):
And too many people do not make that connection.

Speaker 3 (01:26:18):
And it's super frustrating when I hear people say it's
corporate greed, it's you know, it's whatever. And Milton Friedman
actually uses the example of it's not union wages, you know,
because people will blame it on union wages driving Those
are a lagging indicator instead of leaking and e leading indicator.
So in your in your podcast one are the kind
of things that you explain when it comes to because

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my big thing is this, somebody texts me. We have
a text line and they say things like, you know,
back in the nineteen fifties, we had the highest tax
rates on the one percent and we had prosperity. But
what really happened in the nineteen fifties is the government
contracted all that spending from World War Two and the
economy roared. Why is that lesson loss?

Speaker 5 (01:27:00):
Yeah, yeah, it's a great point.

Speaker 10 (01:27:03):
And Milton Freeman is my favorite economist.

Speaker 12 (01:27:05):
So I watch a lot of his youtubes and I
talk a lot about these things on my podcast like
you Will Prosper Show and try to break it down
as simply as possible, because you're right. I mean, the
inflation is an inflation tax.

Speaker 10 (01:27:16):
We all feel it.

Speaker 12 (01:27:17):
That the crisis that's out there on spending, we're all
feeling it through higher interest rates today and everything else.

Speaker 10 (01:27:22):
And so when people I think we've lost.

Speaker 12 (01:27:25):
Sight of how good we have it in some sense today,
and some people want to go back to the nineteen
fifties or something else. But there's a lot of things
that I think America gets right today. The problem is
is in Washington, DC, they don't understand that's definicit spending
really matters, and it grows the size of government, which
which removes our liberty.

Speaker 10 (01:27:45):
The government has no money. Nothing is free, and so
they take it from.

Speaker 12 (01:27:49):
Us, out of the productive private sector, to redistribute it
to someone else. That's all the government spending is. It's
not some candy and sort of logic to where the
government can stimulate the economy and grow in a certain
area is no. What they do is they take it
from person a and give it to person B and
there's no growth in the economy. In fact, it reduces
the economy because it reduces the productive purposes that are

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happening before they tried to redistribute that money. So I think,
you know, Milton Freema was exactly right. Too much money
chasing too few goods is what inflation is. And what
we see in the last especially four years, is a
lot of increasing the money supply driving demand, and then
high regulations at high tax and high spending that have
stifled the supply side of the economy and contributed to
massive amount of inflation. And this is why I think

(01:28:33):
we have an issue to where whether it's Harris or
Trump right now, there could be more inflationary pressures because
neither one of them were talking about spending.

Speaker 3 (01:28:42):
No, no, and both of them, you know, I hesitate
to call them dumb ass ideas, but they've figed out
some real dumb ass ideas, both of them. I mean,
the Trump Terriff situation is not good for consumers. Harris
is trying to give away more money, but only the
people she chooses, and she, I guess, announced another no

(01:29:02):
interest small business loan program that if you've never if
you've ever dealt with government loan programs like the SBA.
You already know how cumbersome they are. Neither of these
people are blazing a trail on economics. So what does
what does an average citizen do?

Speaker 12 (01:29:16):
What do you do if you're worried about this, like
I am, yeah, oh man, I've been kind of pulling
my hair out because you know, one day with Trump
will talk about, well, we're gonna exempt taxes and Social Security.

Speaker 10 (01:29:26):
Then we're gonna exempt taxes on tips.

Speaker 12 (01:29:28):
And the more that you narrow the tax base, the
higher that the rates are otherwise going to be, or
we're gonna's gonna run massive deficits. Instead, we should have
the broadest base possible with the lowest rates, and hopefully
a flat income tax rate is ultimately what we need
and cut government spending in the process. But until then,
I think, you know, there's gonna be a lot more
economic uncertainty. I've been writing a lot about this at

(01:29:48):
American's for Tax Reform and American Institute for Economic Research,
saying that the economic concertainty that's being brought forth by
both of these campaigns, Even though I do think that
the Trump campaign is having a little bit more pro
growth policies course than the Harris administration.

Speaker 10 (01:30:02):
They're both leading to more economic uncertainty. And I'm a
free trade guy. I debated this a lot with Peter
Navarro and others within the White House. They didn't see
it my way.

Speaker 12 (01:30:10):
The presidents didn't see my way. But I really think
that free trade is the way that we will pressure
China to change their habits. By putting tariffs on them
and everything else, it doesn't change their ways because they're
a communist country.

Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
They don't care.

Speaker 7 (01:30:23):
About their people.

Speaker 12 (01:30:24):
But if you start, if you start changing the dynamics
of other trading partners, now, that influences them because that
reduces their power. And I'm hopeful that would be the
way we go. But unfortunately we're talking about tariffs all
the time.

Speaker 10 (01:30:35):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
I do think that in some ways Trump has a
very sort of nineteen fifties view of American manufacturing, right,
and I genuinely think he believes we can be the
leader in the world in manufacturing. But the reality is
is that our standard of living is very high now, right,
And that's good, that's great.

Speaker 4 (01:30:54):
That we have a high standard of living.

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
So it makes it very difficult, difficult to compete with
places that don't like China, like Mexico, like developing economies
where they can make things much cheaper than they can
make them here because they pay people forty bucks a month.

Speaker 4 (01:31:10):
So I mean, how is there a way?

Speaker 5 (01:31:12):
Though?

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
I mean, this is something that I think is something
that needs to be addressed, and that is, how do
you ensure that the United States in an emergency situation
can get things done?

Speaker 4 (01:31:23):
How do we build new aircraft carriers? How do we
make steal how do we.

Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
Protect those things that protect our ability to defend ourselves?

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
This is totally off the beaten track.

Speaker 3 (01:31:33):
I don't know if I'm asking you stuff outside your
wheelhouse here.

Speaker 7 (01:31:35):
No, No, it's fine, it's fine.

Speaker 12 (01:31:39):
These are all national security type threats, right, and that
I think are legitimate concerns that should be addressed. And
one of the things that I like to point out
is that when we point our fingers at someone else
like China, we've got three more fingers pointing back at ourselves.

Speaker 10 (01:31:52):
There's more that we should be doing in America to.

Speaker 12 (01:31:54):
Reduce the cost of business instead of just blaming other countries,
like reducing the corporate income tax rate. Trump has talked
about reducing it to fifteen percent. I would like for
it to be zero percent, because businesses don't play pay taxes.
People do through the form of higher prices, lower wages,
and fewer jobs. We also should be reducing regulations.

Speaker 10 (01:32:12):
There's a lot of.

Speaker 12 (01:32:14):
Hoops that we've got to jump jump through in order
to get stilled to the market. There's a lot of
jump hoops that were going to jump through to get
food to the market, and so much more that if
we remove those obstacles, we may to be much more
competitive and wouldn't have to blame other countries. And one
thing I like to note too about manufacturing is that
where we're reaching manufacturing highs and output, it's just that

(01:32:35):
the employment has declined over time. And that's not just
because of China and other countries through trade. A lot
of it was through automation, which has made our lives
better along the way. Not to say if there wasn't
a cost to those people losing their jobs, but there
were other jobs that were created in the process, and
we had cheaper products that we should you know, consumers

(01:32:55):
really like as well.

Speaker 10 (01:32:56):
So there's a lot of factors that go into this.

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
One of the things I think people forget is that
trade free trade. It increases the buying power of people
on the lower ends of the socioeconomic spectrum a lot,
not a little, a lot. So when you're talking about
the sad part, that is, people are going to lose jobs, right,
but there are other people, a larger group of people
that are going to benefit quite a bit by having
that ability to buy something that.

Speaker 4 (01:33:20):
They want at a very low price.

Speaker 3 (01:33:21):
I mean, it's it sounds like we're not making progress,
but it feel like more people are talking about the
debt and deficit.

Speaker 4 (01:33:31):
But honestly, and I hate to say.

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
This, vance I don't trust Republicans to care about it
after the election anymore. I feel like all the grown
ups in the room have left on this issue. Am
I too pessimistic?

Speaker 10 (01:33:45):
I don't think so. I'm concerned about it as well.

Speaker 12 (01:33:48):
You know, I'm hoping hopefully they will see the writing
on the wall and say, hey, you know what, we've
got to start doing something different.

Speaker 10 (01:33:54):
But we've seen we I mean, this problem has been
around for a long time.

Speaker 12 (01:33:58):
We've had Republics in Congress where they had the majority
in the House and the Senate, and a Republican president
and the deficit continue to go up or at least
running a deficit overall.

Speaker 10 (01:34:10):
And you know, part of it is is that I
you know, one of the concerns I have.

Speaker 12 (01:34:15):
With some Republicans is that they'll say, well, the tax
cuts will pay for themselves over time. And there's some
truth to that in the sense that I believe in incentives.

Speaker 10 (01:34:23):
And that people work more and will get more output
and everything else. That's good.

Speaker 12 (01:34:26):
But in the short run, there will be deficits if
you continue to spend like drunken sailors.

Speaker 10 (01:34:32):
And that's what they end up doing.

Speaker 12 (01:34:33):
And this populism is really a problem from the new
Right to where they want to give a lot of
handouts and spending and tax cuts.

Speaker 10 (01:34:40):
Some of them even want to raise taxes. And the
number one thing you don't want to do.

Speaker 12 (01:34:44):
To bring down a deficit is to raise taxes, because
then you slow economic growth. What we really need is
more economic growth, about a full percentage point more than
what we're having now two and a half percent. Get
it up to three and a half percent, and let's
rein in government spending. If you did that and had
spending one percent, we could balance the budget.

Speaker 4 (01:35:02):
In eight years.

Speaker 5 (01:35:02):
That's too long. In my view, i'd love.

Speaker 10 (01:35:04):
To see the budget cut. We don't have to cut anything,
just slow the growth and you can have it balanced
with eight ears.

Speaker 4 (01:35:09):
The sad thing is viance.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
You mentioned Rand Paul's sixpenny plan. It was the one
penny plan the first time he put it up. If
they had just passed it, then we would be having
balanced budgets and we'd be working our way through the
national debt. And now it's the sixpenny plan.

Speaker 5 (01:35:25):
Amen.

Speaker 4 (01:35:26):
Vance Gin is my guest.

Speaker 3 (01:35:28):
You can find him at vance skin dot com. I
put a link on the blog today. He has a newsletter,
he has a podcast. If you're a free market type,
you should check it out.

Speaker 4 (01:35:35):
Vice. I really appreciate it. Hoping to talk again in
the future.

Speaker 10 (01:35:39):
That was good, Mandy, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:35:41):
All right, thank you, sir, Nerdy egghead talk Bryan Edwards
before you're in.

Speaker 7 (01:35:46):
I love that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
I do too, although it's so and you know, someday
I'm going to be proven absolutely one hundred percent right,
and I don't want to be when it comes to
the national debt.

Speaker 4 (01:35:57):
It is going to destroy this country.

Speaker 3 (01:35:59):
It's going to destroy like all the little crappy pissant
stuff we're worried about right now is going to seem
like it's gonna we're gonna look back on it fondly
when the debt crisis comes, because when the debt crisis comes,
it's not just the United States the old adage when
we catch a cold, the world catches it too, and
it's going.

Speaker 4 (01:36:17):
To be very, very bad, and no one in power
seems to care. And that's what's so depressing. Yeah, I
again not to derail extend we got of to day,
but it's.

Speaker 9 (01:36:28):
Just, yeah, it's one of those deals where it feels
like there's a lot of distraction. Right there's a lot
of like shell game stuff where it's like we don't
even end up talking about things that are actually very important.
We're talking about the latest sort of TMZ ish kind
of controversy.

Speaker 4 (01:36:42):
And it's frustrating.

Speaker 9 (01:36:43):
I think there's a lot of people out there, whatever
way you lean, they just want to know, Okay, what's
the facts and what are we what are your policies,
what are your policies? How are you going to help me?
How are you going to help me?

Speaker 7 (01:36:53):
And that's we can just borrow more, right.

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
Right, I'm sure a trillion dollars on interest payments a trillion.

Speaker 4 (01:37:00):
That's where we are.

Speaker 3 (01:37:02):
We're now spending more on interest payments that we're spending
on defense and education.

Speaker 4 (01:37:05):
Combine, what's the number when you get to four quadrillion quadrillian? Yeah,
I'm sure you guys are gonna be talking about Alex
Singleton out.

Speaker 6 (01:37:12):
For the year.

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
But dude, what a stone called baller that guy is.
He gets hurt in the first quarter, plays the entire
game and gets ten tackles with a blown out ACL.

Speaker 9 (01:37:23):
It's remarkable, dude, Yeah, dude, And listening to Sean Payton
talk about it, I mean he was just like, I've
never seen anything like it, Like I've never seen and
I've seen guys finished games, but it's like the very
end of it, and you're like, you know, yeah, oh man,
in fact that you have not I mean because especially
that position, you're you got to hurt the ball back

(01:37:43):
your most side to side. I mean, it's not one
of those like hey, I'm only going downhill. It's an
offensive lineman. If you're you know, I saw that today
and that's just that's nuts.

Speaker 7 (01:37:52):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
I mean, that's it's a huge loss to for the defense,
but it is what else is coming up on your
on your show there.

Speaker 7 (01:37:58):
Yeah, I mean we'll obviously talk about that.

Speaker 9 (01:38:00):
Talked this controversy with this quarterback at UNLV. I don't
know if you saw.

Speaker 4 (01:38:04):
I did not see that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:38:05):
So he was promised, he was he's.

Speaker 9 (01:38:08):
The quarterback, right, So he promised about one hundred thousand
dollars at least according to him, in nil money, and
there was a verbal agreement and they decided, well.

Speaker 4 (01:38:19):
We'll give you three thousand, and so he's like, well,
that's just yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:38:23):
So they get so, they get off to a hot start,
they're off three and oh, and he's just like he
was asking, he's asking, and they keep delaying, delaying, and
finally they say, all right, take it or leave at
three thousand, that's all we can give you. And he's
like that, I'm just gonna red shirt and I'm not playing.
And it's remarkable because un lv's off to this incredible start.
They're they're winning meaningful games like there they might have
a chance.

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
To be They've never never heard about how Alabama's done
it for years, and that's what's so weird.

Speaker 4 (01:38:46):
I don't kid kidding me.

Speaker 9 (01:38:48):
Yeah, And some people were like, oh, This isn't what
the system designed for where we don't have no system
in place.

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
This is all new.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
We're putting the meat on the bones. Yeah yeah, all right,
let's do this real quick.

Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
And now it's uh for the most exciting segment all
the radio. And it's kindly all right? When is our
dad joke of the day, please, Anthony?

Speaker 6 (01:39:08):
My anatomy class had to assemble a human skeleton. I
hid one of the arm bones as a joke. No
one found that humorous.

Speaker 4 (01:39:15):
Yeah, today's I saw that one coming a mile away.
By By the way, what's the word of the day.

Speaker 7 (01:39:21):
It's a meliorism.

Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
Meliorism e l io.

Speaker 3 (01:39:26):
Yeah, I recognize it because we've had this word before
and I cannot remember.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
It is something that causes a problem or disruption, ran No,
I have nothing.

Speaker 6 (01:39:35):
Refers to the belief that the world tends to improve
and that humans can aid in its betterment.

Speaker 4 (01:39:41):
All right, tamiliarism.

Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
Where in Europe can you find a statue of musician
Bob Marley sculpted by Devor Dookie.

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
In Europe?

Speaker 5 (01:39:50):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:39:51):
Oh, you're not going to get this, so I'm just
going to give you the answer.

Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
In the tiny Serbian village of Banatski Sokolok. Well, Marley
never traveled to Serbia. His fans off then visit to
take a picture with a statue. Because when I think
reggae music, I think Serbia. It's like a hand in glove.
I mean, you know right there? What is their category?

Speaker 7 (01:40:09):
The gig economy?

Speaker 4 (01:40:11):
Okay? Does it have the word gig in it? No? Okay,
giggby smaller than its cousins.

Speaker 6 (01:40:16):
The shuffle model of this music player IDRE in ninety five,
this type of disc debuted.

Speaker 4 (01:40:23):
It looked like a CD.

Speaker 5 (01:40:24):
But could.

Speaker 7 (01:40:27):
I said my name on?

Speaker 9 (01:40:30):
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:40:30):
What is a laser disc?

Speaker 6 (01:40:32):
Now's the question what it has? Laser disc in parentheses?
I don't know if that counts as If it's in parentheses,
that'll take that. I was looking for a DVD, but
a laser Oh, okay, there you go.

Speaker 7 (01:40:42):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:40:43):
One common looky one commandment that applies to its Galaxy
S two tablet, thou canst upgrade to one hundred and
twenty six gigs with a micro SD expansion.

Speaker 7 (01:40:57):
Man who makes the Galaxy man O?

Speaker 4 (01:41:01):
Is Samsung? Correct?

Speaker 7 (01:41:02):
That's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:41:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:41:04):
The Bolt DVR from this video recording Pioneer unifies your
TV watching with its minimum five hundred gigabytes hard drive.

Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
No clue.

Speaker 7 (01:41:14):
Think about that cute cartoon character. What's the t BO? Correct?

Speaker 4 (01:41:18):
There we go, Oh, weird tie. Here's the deal in videos.
G fours GTX titan Z.

Speaker 6 (01:41:23):
One of these has twelve gigs of memory and is
billed as a gaming monster.

Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
Mandy, what's a desktop computer?

Speaker 6 (01:41:32):
Wrong?

Speaker 4 (01:41:32):
Dang it? What is it?

Speaker 7 (01:41:34):
What is a graphics card?

Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:41:36):
And you've gotten right words?

Speaker 6 (01:41:38):
That's right?

Speaker 3 (01:41:41):
Yes, because I still believe that I still won that
other one because you didn't know Guy Smiley was anyway.
Kae Sports coming up next. We will be back tomorrow
for a big half hour show.

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
Don't miss it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
It will be twenty one minutes of absolute bliss tomorrow
at Nude.

Speaker 4 (01:41:58):
Keep it right here on KOA