10-02-24 FULL SHOW - JD Vance Went From Weird To Hot Last Night

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we will take you right up to KOA Sports And
oh boy, do we have a lot of stuff to
talk about from last night. So let's jump right in,

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shall we? Yes, we shall go. Find the blog. It's
easy to find. Go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
dot com and then look for the headline that says
ten two twenty four blog jd vance went from wear
to Hot last night. Click on that and here are
the headlines you will find within weird, Weird, too hot, Hot, Yeah, weird.

Speaker 6 (01:07):
Tat I did going in office half of American all
with ships and clipments and say that's going to press platch.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
Today on the blog whether Wednesday is today? At twelve
thirty jd Vance look Presidential last night scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
What did the media think of the debate? And now
jd Vance is hot scrolling, But those moderators though, scrolling scrolling,

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if you read the Associated Press story, scrolling scrolling. There's
a lot of video on the blog today, a lot
of Twitter stuff. The port Workers' Union is fighting to
keep things inefficient. Griswold is the worst Secretary of State
I've ever seen. Does a roar have another gang infested
apartment complex? Denver Communists urge violent overthrow. Aron's missile attack

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was a dud. This This is the text message I
read yesterday from an Israeli citizen. Denver has a fancy
hotel that's being noticed. Too many leaf papers are spoiling
the view. Wait until you hit fifty gaming the interview
with Ai CNN asked kids about the election, and it's
not good for Democrats. A trick play that works like
a charm by far the funniest meme from last night's bunch.

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Global entry just got more expensive. Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. So, as you
can tell, I watched the debate last night and I
need to walk you through my feelings about last night's debate. Now,
we've had a lot of fun doing the KOA cast,
But Chuck asked me on Monday, so you guys aren't

(02:43):
doing a KOA cast for the VP debate. I'm like,
I am no, and I don't want to. The last
two debates have been so awful, just so awful that
last night Chuck and I we had started watching the
next episode of Tulsa King, and all of a sudden,
I was like, oh crap. At seven o two, I
was so looking forward to the debate that I tried

(03:04):
to put it out of my mind because I just
didn't want to sit through another two hours of crap
of politicians not saying anything substantial. I was not in
the mood. So imagine my surprise when I turned on
the debate last night and I saw two men. Now,
let's just admit it. Tim Walls did not have a

(03:27):
good start. Did you watch the debate last night?

Speaker 7 (03:29):
Rod?

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Did you watch? Did you see the beginning? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Did he not.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Remind you of like Chris Farley in the very beginning,
like trying to think of words to say. It was
just so uncomfortable that as he was talking, I just
honestly I told ross Is. I was like, oh, please God,
Please God, don't let this be the whole debate, like,
I can't, I can't if he can't get it together. Luckily,
he did get it together and he started to make
a lot more sense after that first answer. But the

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damage out of the shoot was significant. But then they
go to JD. Van's first question, of course, about what
happened with iron firing missiles at Israel, and he started
out by saying, I'm absolutely going to answer that question,
but let me introduce myself to the American people. And
he did a great job. And let me tell you something,
last night, JD. Vance was smoking hot. And I'm not

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gonna sit here and tell you like I'm not I
don't have posters of Jdvance in my house or anything
like that, because politically that is going to matter. Politically,
that is going to get some people to vote for
the Trump Vance ticket, because some people aren't just that shallow. Hey, Rod,
you you would not believe how many people after Bill

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Clinton got elected, women were like, oh my god, I
just elected him because he was so good looking and
so oh he's so dreamy. So there's a certain part
of the population that is going to vote for him.
I saw the funniest tweet last night that said, my
fifteen year old daughter is now in love. She just
made jd Vance her screensaver on her phone. So to

(05:01):
say that it doesn't matter is just you're not paying
attention and in erase this close. I'm not saying that
he's gonna win because he looked great last night, but
it is not gonna hurt at all, not one bit.
So he looks great, that's thing number one. But then
he starts talking and you have to think about how

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jd Vance has been presented to the American people if
you don't pay close attention to politics, if you don't
pay close attention to what's going on. Remember it was
Tim Walls that named jd Vance weird, so that was
the big you know, he's just weird, he's weird. Well,
last night he didn't look weird at all, not the

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weird about anything. And as the debate went on, Tim
Walls definitely got better, he definitely got stronger. He made
some really good points, and I think that taking out
a few glaring issues, it was fairly even. But the
glaring issues were really glaring. That opening disaster for Tim

(06:04):
Walls released at the tone and when they asked Tim
Walls about his lie. Now, if you read the news
media today, he says he misspoke about being in Tianaman
Square when the Chinese government rolled in, literally rolled in
to kill protesters and stop democratic protests from occurring. So

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what a play for you, Tim Walls, member of Congress
at the time, regaling everyone with his memories of Tianaman Square.
Just listen, does this at all? Hang on one second,
let me do that, young man.

Speaker 8 (06:43):
I was just going and going to teach high school
in Fosan and Guangdong and was in Hong Kong in
May of eighty nine, and as the events were unfolding,
several of us went in and I still remember the
train station in Hong Kong.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
It was a large number of especially European I think,
very angry.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Well wait a minute, so we know for sure he
wasn't there. He wasn't there at all. And this is
in the congressional record, by the way, I just want
to play that part for you again. Does this sound
like a misspeak?

Speaker 4 (07:15):
That's we're unfolding. Several of us went in, and I
still remember the trains. I still remember the train station
in especially Europeans. I wasn't in very angry that we
would would still go after what had happened, But it
was my belief at that time that the diplomacy was
going to happen on many levels, certainly people, the people,
and the opportunity to be in a Chinese high school

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at that critical time seemed to me to be really important.
And it was a very interesting summer, to say the least,
because if you recall as we moved in that summer
and further on in the news blackouts and things that
went on, you certainly can't black out news from people
if they want to get it.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
And I can still.

Speaker 8 (07:51):
Clearly remember the fall when the Berlin wall fell and
what was happening.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
We don't know if he was anywhere. He actually was
unconscious while the Berlin Wall fell, but he said he there.
Now Tim Walls has now been forced to admit that
he was not in Hong Kong when the Tianaman Square
massacre occurred. He was not there. He didn't get there
until August, and that happened in May or no June,
maybe I don't know the exact day. I think was

(08:16):
June June fourth, actually because that's also his wedding anniversary,
and the news media is just covering like, oh yeah,
he he stumbled over his answer about misspeaking or misrepresenting. Now,
if Donald Trump had said, you know what, I was
on the ground, I remember Europeans in the train station.

(08:38):
I remember. Do you think the news media would say
he misspoke or do you think they would say he lied?
As a matter of fact, one of my friends said
one of the headlines she saw was Vance lied and
Wall's something I don't know. So they're willing to say Vancelede,
hang on lied Wall. I'm seeing if I can find

(09:02):
the headline here. Yeah, I'll see if I can find
that actual headline. But they say it's no problem saying
a Republican lie. But boy, they're not willing to say
that he lied about being there when he clearly clearly
lied about being there. And how does the campaign not

(09:24):
prepare him for that question? How how does the campaign
not do something to let him know that you know
this question is going to come up, there's a zero
percent chance it's not going to come up, So how
do you answer it? And I thought about this long
and hard. I think the only way out of that

(09:45):
for Tim Walls would have been to say the following.
You know what, when I was in Congress, I was
trying to make a point, and I self figgrandized, and
I tried to make myself seem bigger than I actually was,
and I fabricated a story about being at Tanneman Square.
And I'm embarrassed by now, but it was me trying to,
you know, let people know how important that was, how

(10:08):
you know what a big deal it was. And for me,
when something like that happens, it's so egregious. You have
no choice but to just fall on your sword and
throw yourself under the bus. Because we all know it
was a lie. I mean, everybody knew it was a lie.
And yet he called himself a knucklehead, said he could

(10:31):
be a knucklehead sometimes and sort of, but never admitted
I just lied about that. I misspoke. He said. There
was not a misspeak, not even close. There's no misspeaking
about that. It was a blatant lie. And the media
is just like, okay, now. The biggest losers last night

(10:53):
were the moderators. Nora O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan were an
absolute embarrassed and unlike Trump, who let himself get rattled
by that kind of stuff. Jd Vance was just like, Hey,
since you're going to fact check, let me tell you
what the facts are, turning off his microphone when he

(11:13):
was trying to clarify the record after they fact checked him,
after CBS had said in the debate rules that they
would not be live fact checking. Was just a terrible,
terrible mistake, an absolute terrible mistake. The one area where
I thought Margaret Brannan did a good job was pressing
Tim Walls on his non answer. There were a lot
of non answers last night from both sides, but they

(11:35):
were definitely more polished non answers than non answers that
we've seen before, which leads me to my last point
about this. Not my last point about the debate overall,
because I got a lot more to say, but I
want to make this point. Last night, I came away
with a feeling of hopefulness that there is hope for

(11:59):
our pots politics, that there are people who can get
on stage and debate in a way where you get
to hear substantial conversations about policy, where they can go
back and argue the point against the person they're having
a debate with where they can do it civilly, where
they can do it in a positive and upbeat manner,
where it doesn't have to be name calling and it
doesn't have to be nasty, and frankly, jd Vance gives

(12:22):
me help for the future of the party. I mean
he really does, because he's great at articulating conservative positions.
He's great at it, and he's great at going on
the attack without seeming like an a hole. That, my friends,
is a gift. Traditionally the role of the vice president
candidate has been to be the attack dog. That's traditionally

(12:46):
what we've done here. Donald Trump upset that apple carte greatly,
and as a matter of fact, when he shows Mike Pence,
I was like, there's no way Mike Pence is going
to be the attack dog. So he's kind of the
straight man to Trump's attack dog. And last night we
saw Jade Vance as the straight man, the man with gravitas,
the man with you know, seriousness about these things, but

(13:07):
a man who could clearly articulate what it was that
the Republican Party and Donald Trump were trying to do.
So yeah, Mandy Vance just turned a generation of women
into traditional gals. You know what's funny is that Jade
Vance's wife is beautiful. I think she's gorgeous, and they
have these beautiful kids. They're almost like the Republican version

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of Camelot in the way that they're just super attractive family.
Only instead of being kind of the old money Camelot
that the Kennedy's represented back in the late sixties, they're
more representative of America. You've got a guy who he
married a first generation American woman. He came from grinding

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poverty and went into the military to get the GI bill,
then went to Harvard Law School. I mean, the stories
that they have are farm a representative of the United
States of America than the actual Kennedy family was far more.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
And he's representative of the United States. Love for the
show Game of Thrones because he's got white Walker eyes.
Those those eyes are too blue.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Now, they're they're piercing. That's why I'm telling you, that's
why he looks so dreamy last year. Are too blue.
They were piercing last night. I mean they were they
were seriously blue.

Speaker 9 (14:26):
Too much.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
He had been crying. Do you know what he had
not been crying? Isn't that when crying no he had
not been crying. They're just that blue. He's getting real
emotional rock this debate. Mandy, what's the difference between misspeaking
and lying, Well, it depends on who's doing it. If
you're a Republican, misspeaking is always lying. If you're a Democrat,

(14:47):
misspeaking is just a simple mistake where you said the
wrong words. Now if they were a lie, well that's
just a misspoke. I just misspoke. It's fine, it's fine,
Mandy o'donald and Brennan are losers to a certain population.
Like However, like Kyle Clark, they will be given cover
and be celebrated enough where there's no real consequences for them.
There's not going to be the consequences because everybody in

(15:08):
the newsroom agrees with them. Last night, when Nora O'Donnell said,
and now we're going to talk about the number three
issue of concern to voters, the state of our democracy,
I was like, what now's live tweeting? Last night? If
you didn't follow me on Twitter, I was live tweeting
all kinds of stuff. But I stopped live tweeting so
I could then go to the internet and look at

(15:30):
every piece of polling data I could find about what's
important to voters. Do you know what's important to voters?
I know because I looked at all the poles last night. Inflation,
the economy, immigration, crime, none of those things. I didn't
even find one poll where the state of democracy was
in the top ten. I didn't see one poll where

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January sixth was in the top ten. The only people
that that matters to are the Democrats and the Democrats
in the media that he saw last night. I mean,
come on, Vance needs to lose the eyeliner you guys,
jd Vance does not wear eyeliner. He has extremely thick eyelashes.
Stop buying your guyliner from Derek Carr. J. No, he's not.

(16:12):
He doesn't. He has very thick eyelashes. It makes it
look like he's got I mean, should he trim up
his eyelashes so people would stop with the eyeliner stuff?

Speaker 6 (16:20):
I mean, Ben Albright was here last night, so he
didn't provide it to him. Derek Carr is busy playing
in the NFL right now.

Speaker 5 (16:29):
I did not expect a Ben shot at twelve twenty two,
right there, Well done? Kiss has been all bright Mandy
hashtag weird gay bears for Vance, don't be surprised when
forty of the LGBTQ population vote Republic in this election.
I'm telling you, guys, I'm telling you that that it

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doesn't matter to me, like I don't care, but but
it matters to a certain sort of segment of the population,
and this is going to be a tight race, and
that would be hilarious.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
I just want to refuse to believe, refuse that the
majority is that shallow.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
I know I'm probably wrong, but I'm gonna I'm not
seeing the majority. No, no, no, okay, clear, okay. Let
me make sure this is a small percentage of the population,
but this racist tied. Do you look at the polls
right now? That small percentage of the population could make
a difference. Yeah, no, about no, a majority of people,
but enough enough people. Mandy an acquaintance or mandyce sounded

(17:34):
like he was trying to sell reverse mortgages to widows.
Interesting take, Interesting take. Mandy an acquaintance of mine, claims
ninety percent of Iron's missiles got through and did significant damage.
Apparently this is the line in some circles. Well, I
talked to someone who lives in Israel I didn't talk
to them. We chatted back and forth, and that is

(17:54):
not accurate. As a matter of fact. When I said,
how you know what's going on with the rocket attack,
they said, oh, we don't care about the rocket attacks.
That happens every day, like it doesn't matter. We were
all on our bomb shelters. It was fine, it doesn't matter.
And what they said was what has unnerved the Israelis
worthy on the street attacks at the train station where
the guy's gone off a train to train with a

(18:16):
gun and just started shooting. So now everyone in Israel
is walking around with a firearm. Can we go back
to that sentence? What we were all on our bomb shelters.
It was fine. Yeah, No, I know how casual Israelis
are about bombs, about rockets, because they deal with it
every day. It never stops. We're paying attention to it

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because it's a hot war. This is every day for them,
and it's just they're sick of it. By the way,
yesterday I read on the blog. I read on the
show a text message from a friend who lives in
central Israel, and it was her expressing her frustration with
the way that things are going. And if you want

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to know how the Israeli people feel. Right now, go
read that text on the blog while we take this break.
We'll be right back with Weather Wednesday coming up next.
Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one. I'm sorry, Dave Fraser.
I was discombobulated there for a moment, but now I'm back.
How are you?

Speaker 7 (19:13):
I'm good?

Speaker 9 (19:14):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (19:14):
I am well now that I am back on the
show and a little bit toasty today. When are we
getting our fall? Are we just going to go straight
from ninety degrees to snow? Because I feel like that's
what's going to happen here.

Speaker 7 (19:28):
It could, Mandy. Honestly, the pattern we're in, I just
don't see any breaks coming for the next ten to
maybe thirteen. I think we could put at a ten
percent chance of a shower in our forecast, maybe a
week from this Saturday, which would be what the twelve thirteenth, Yeah,
well that weekend. So yeah, it's just that we've got
this persistent high. The jet stream with the storm track

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is way too far north. There's just not a lot
going on, and sometimes in these patterns, what can happen
at this time of the year, days are getting shorter
as the cold there gets bobbled up and eventually it'll
break loose and come our way. But that's a building process.
So this dominant high that's just kind of keeping us dry, sunny,
and kind of ebbs and flows from warm to seasonal,

(20:11):
from warm to seasonal. That's going to continue in the
seven day and in the ten day forecast with no change.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
So it sounds like I need to water my trees.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We just did a We did
a story on that yesterday because people were asking, you know,
it's this kind of year where the conversation usually would
start with the cooler nights about length of the appropriate
time to blow out the sprinklers. But with the dry
pattern we've been in September was you know, a little
below normal for moisture. We really only had the one
good weekend of rain. October looks to be dry for

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the next ten days. You're not going to get a
lot of growth. So in other words, you're launch is
probably looking pretty good, but it's not growing like it
does in the summer. So when you moway get the
tiniest little clippings, but your trees and your shrubs and
stuff are definitely gonna want that drink. You just don't
need to water as much. We talked with Denver Water
and instead of doing every three days, suggesting maybe every

(21:01):
you know, once a week or maybe twice a week,
just to keep the moisture flow going. But overall you
shouldn't have to panic and run it like you would
in the hike eat of some summer.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
You know, I understand that about the you know, about
watering just a couple of times a week, but for
those of us that live in neighborhoods to throw out
water restrictions, right, so it's like you have to water
on the right day or the water police are going
to come get you. Actually, we don't have water police,
but it's it is interesting that a more efficient way
would be the water a couple times a week and

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then call it a day. But that's not what is
allowed in some situations.

Speaker 7 (21:37):
Yeah, I think I think my personal you know, in
talking with people at Denver Water for twenty years. Listen,
we're semi arid climate. Water is a precious commodity anywhere
in the country, but certainly more so here in the West,
and we struggle with drought from times. We're dealing with
that now, so you know, to be fair, and everybody
you know wants to keep their lawn in their yard
looking great. Every third day should be ample. And it's

(22:00):
just a matter of everybody has different watering systems. So
some had sophisticated timing systems where they can set it
for every third day to match whatever the schedule is
for the hoa or the neighborhood. Others they may only
be able to do it. Some have to do it manually.
But just if you can just do it every three days,
that's probably ample, and you're going to save money. And
you pok a book too. Need to overwalk.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
So let me ask you a couple of questions. I
was out walking the dog yesterday and today we got
some hazy skies. What's going on with that right now?

Speaker 7 (22:29):
So there was a fire just east of Salt Lake
City and a little bit of that smoke, not a lot,
A little bit of that smoke kind of got pulled
into the atmosphere. So as you were looking from a
great distance, you probably did notice a little bit of haze.
I can see I hinted it today. It's just not
the wildfire smoke we were dealing with earlier in the
summer where the fires were just huge and massive, and

(22:51):
the smoke was thick and made it all the way down,
and there were health concerns. Just enough of the haze
on the horizon that you're right in your eye probably
picked it up.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
So I got a couple questions from listeners on the
text line now, and one of them came in some
time ago before I started talking about last night's debate.
Here it is where does Dave get the data to
determine the average high and low temperatures for a particular day.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
So the average records are kept by the National Weather Service.
You can find them on their website. It is a
record database that goes back to eighteen seventy two when
records were first started to be kept here in Denver.
The official station has moved four times during its history.
It is now housed out at the airport Denver International

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or den depending on your preference. And so we go
through that record database and in there you can find
the daily records. You can look at months, you can
look at yearly records, you can look at streaks. There's
all sorts of climatological data that is in there. So
for instance, today we're looking at two records one is
if we reach ninety degrees, which we think we will

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between two and three, we're sitting at eighty six, we
would set a new record high for today October second,
beating the old record which was set back in two
thousand and five. And if we hit ninety degrees, it's
the latest ninety degree temperature that Denver has ever recorded
in that record keeping history of eighteen seventy two, gone

(24:20):
all the way back to that time. The old record
was yesterday.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Yeah, there you go. So somebody's asking this question, when
are the leaves going to fall? This is an interesting
question because I just noticed yesterday as I was driving
around and really starting to see in the metro, we're
starting to see leaves change, right, So this is like
it happens so fast, and usually when they get really pretty,
that's when we get our first snowstorm to knock all

(24:45):
the leaves off. So we have nice leaves for like
ten minutes. That's not going to happen this year. So
somebody said, don't want a ton of tree damage. Always
seems like they hang on just a couple of days
too long. But we're not in danger of having any
snow or big weather knock our li off this yere.

Speaker 7 (25:01):
Yeah, those are the two things we look for. One
would be a wind event, which would clearly strip the
trees of their leaves, because they're getting to that point
where they're dropping. I mean the leaves are dropping out.
I'm looking on my window. Neighbor's tree is hanging over
my fence line, and the leaves are dropping a little
bit here and there. There's some neighborhood trees where you
can see they turn to red, and you drove down
the streets and you can see the leads bees. So

(25:22):
they're already doing that. They're struggling a little bit with
the drought, but the trees and the grass and the
you know, the natural vegetation everything, even though we're warm
and dry, the cooler nights of the signal to it too.
It's that time of the year to start thinking about
going dormant, right, So they tend to shed their leaves
and so we're going to see that. The other thing
would be like you're talking about, We've had that happen
in early October where we will get a blast of

(25:43):
cold there and the trees have not leaped out, and
that can cause damage in certainly a heavy wet snow
if the trees are still holding their leaves, would cause
problems with broken branches. So right now you are correct,
we just don't have those threats. So just watch them
gently fall and you know, bow them up.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
As you got a couple of hurricane questions for you. Obviously,
Helene has been the big topic of conversation as it's
done just brought incredible destruction in the Carolinas and in Tennessee.
This question is why do hurricanes move east to west
when the normal storms move west to east.

Speaker 7 (26:18):
So the flow where the hurricanes form in the Atlantic
South think of Florida, is in the opposite direction. You
have to come north of Florida for the flow to
go the other way. So west to east is our
dominant flow across the country jet stream where we usually
bring storms in from the west or the Pacific northwest
and then move them in an easterly direction, sometimes southeasterly,

(26:39):
sometimes northeasterly. But the general flow in the mid latitude
where the United States sits is west to east. However,
as you transition south and get down then you enter
into a part of the flow where you've between there
like the tip of Florida, Florida itself and to the equator,
where the flow goes the other way. So the forms
of the storms hurricanes forming the Atlantic, the flow is

(27:02):
to bring them towards to the west, towards Florida, into
the Gulf of Mexico, and as they turn towards the US,
then they get caught up in the predominant flow and
turned back to the east. And that's what happened with Helene.
Alene came up through the Gulf across Florida and then
was pushed to the north and east, and that's why
it hit where it did across Asheville and parts of Tennessee.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
Here's the question for you, Dave. Is the rain in
a hurricane salt water?

Speaker 7 (27:30):
Well, salt particulars helped to make it more efficient, but
the salt itself will be wrung out if you understand. So, yes,
salt water is fueling the hurricane. Remember we talked about
what's called condensation nuclei, smoke, dust particles, salt particles. They
allow the rain drops to adhere to those particles and grow.

(27:50):
So salt water is part of the machine that is
fueling it. But the rain falling has been purified as
the salt is being wrung out, where does the salt go?

Speaker 5 (28:00):
I mean, here's the thing, Like some of that moisture
is getting is evaporated. So what happens to the salt
when I guess the salt gets left behind? That's how
they actually harvest.

Speaker 7 (28:09):
Salt dissolved yet. And listen, we're talking about microscopic party, right,
we're talking. We're not talking about something's coming out of
your salt shaker.

Speaker 9 (28:17):
Yeah, we're talking.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
About the finest of particles that are mixed in with
the atmosphere.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
For the person who asks, what am I going to
get rained for a wheat crop? Not anytime soon, right, Dave?

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Nope, Yeah, no.

Speaker 7 (28:30):
Unfortunately, I feel for anybody trying to do that late
season we cry out any of that kind of stuff.

Speaker 9 (28:36):
We just don't have it.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (28:38):
Unfortunately, we're just stuck. We've got no big storm coming
down the west coast to bump this big high pressure
which is sitting to our south and west. We need
something to move in, powerful cold front, powerful storm center,
something to just move it along. And like I said,
the long range models, I can tell you I looked
at them. I do every time before you call me.
The long range model models for the month of October

(29:00):
aventy percent chance the temperatures will be above normal and
a sixty percent chance that moisture will be below normal.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
All right, there we go. You can of course see
Dave's full forecast at Fox thirty one.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Our partner.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
Again, great to talk to you. We'll talk to again
next week, my friend.

Speaker 7 (29:14):
I have a great weekend.

Speaker 10 (29:15):
All right.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
That is Dave Frasier. We'll be right back. Some of
them are really good, really really good. There's one superior
one to all.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
Which one is that him looking at the camera and
giving the uh the John Krasinski the office space one
hundred Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
Yeah, yep. That of course was the meme of the
night last night. Now, I do want to share something
with you that a listener just sent me via the
text line. You can always text us at five sixty
six nine zero on the Common Spirit Health text line.
I just want to read this this well, I'm going
to read a little bit of this from you, just

(29:51):
to give you an idea of what I was talking
about when I said jd Vance looks smoking hot last night,
and it's going to move the needle for some people.
A majority not everybody, but it's gonna move the needle
for some people. Headline, be ready for this. Vance's baby
blues may have just flipped the left's most loyal demographic.

(30:11):
Now listen to this from the Daily Caller. You're not
even ready for what I'm about to read you. As
a group, gay people may overwhelmingly hate Donald Trump, but
they couldn't help but fall in love with JD. Vance
on the debate stage Tuesday night. In the words of
Gay America, he came out looking snatched. Now, these poll

(30:33):
Mummer numbers might be made up, but they're making fun
of a very real phenomenon. Gay Twitter absolutely lost their
minds for Vance last night. Some said he'd make a
hot as you know what, VP, while others said he
is giving the gaze everything we want. Some speculated the
pink tie was sending a signal wink wink. What that

(30:53):
signal is I can't share here, but the consensus was
overwhelmingly suggested, as noted concerned of activists and gay man
Andy No noted, I was not expecting gay ex responses
to the VP debate to me, so triple X, but really,
who can blame them? Vans has come a long days
for a long way from his days as a chubby

(31:14):
Ohio teen. He's dropped significant weight recently and is likely
working out if his chisel jawline has anything to go by.
His eyes are the color of a Mikinos blue, and
the new Saltan pepper beard only makes him look more distinguished.
That's nothing to say of how he outright dominated Tim
Walls on stage, all with a hint of playful charm.

(31:34):
If this is what it takes for gay America to
vote for a MAGA ticket, I'm all in. So Senator Vance,
give the gaze what they want. Maybe next time, take
that shirt off before you get in the pool. Okay,
So that is an article for the Daily Caller, and
I don't want to think that it matters. I mean,
you should have seen the horror on a Rod's face

(31:56):
when I said, you know, he looked hot, and that's
going to move the needle for some people. But the
reality is that's going to move the people the needle
for some people in this election, which is a very
very tight election. So yeah, I'd love to know what
you guys thought if you watched the debate. First of all,
if you didn't watch the debate, how much have you

(32:18):
watched of it this morning? That's the first question, because
in the next hour we're going to get into some
of the sound bites that I pulled. I have a
bunch of audio on the blog and I want to
play some of that. And I just wondered, how much
of the snippets are you seeing and what is your
algorithm showing you, because my friends on the left are

(32:38):
getting a much different message today, much different. Yes.

Speaker 6 (32:43):
Impartant question is JD. Vans the best example of what
a beard can do for a man?

Speaker 3 (32:49):
You know what?

Speaker 5 (32:50):
I love facial hair. Beards just, first of all, make
you look more manly, period. And if you can't grow
a beer, guys, I'm not mad at you. I'm just saying,
beards make you look more manly, you know, just like
lipstick makes women look more feminine. You know, just one
of those things. And yeah, I it looked great, and

(33:15):
I'm telling you that's gonna matter. Mandy. If this is true,
why is no one talking about it? Oh, Idaho farmers
are on strike because the state has turned off their water.

Speaker 6 (33:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
I hadn't heard anything about Idaho farmers, Mandy. I thought
Sean Hennedy shredded Jared Polis in the spin room last night.
Apparently Governor Polis was on Fox News, and I guess
he didn't look nearly as you know, constipated as he
did during our interview. He seemed to be enjoying himself.
Somebody sent me a message last night and said, so,

(33:47):
Mandy Polus is in the spin room. Does this mean
he's running for president?

Speaker 11 (33:51):
No.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
The fact that Jared Polis has spent let me see here,
rough numbers fifty million of his own dollars to get
elected to several different offices, that's the indication that he
is running for president. Just saying seventy two male heterosexual
neither one of them does it for me. Just saying, well,
you're not who I'm talking about, mister. I'm talking about

(34:15):
people that are like this person that I got a
text on earlier. Let me see here, let me find it.
When I was eighteen, all the girls in my dorm
floor loved JFK's looks versus Nixon. I'm talking about those people,
the dorm floor girls, the women. Anyway, Mandy, he's so hot.

(34:41):
I watched the debate and thought he could be our
president in twenty eight I did. I did feel a
little bit of that as well, Like I felt like,
if this is the future of the Republican Party, I'm
feeling pretty good about things for a party i'm no
longer a part of. When we get back, we're gonna
get into some audio and talk about some stuff and
all kinds of things coming up next.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
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Speaker 5 (35:26):
All right, my friends, I've now reached out to some
gay people to find out whether or not jd Vance
won over the hearts and minds of the LGBTQ community.
Rich Googen him will be joining us in a few
minutes to talk about that. But a lot of people
talking about police in the spin room after the debate,
and I don't know, and I can't I cannot get

(35:47):
your tone or tenor from the text line. But it's
not crazy that Jared Poulis would be a part of
that because number one, he is going to run for president. Okay,
I'm gonna say it again and again and again. In
twenty twenty eight. Jared Polis is going to run for president,

(36:07):
so while he is still governor, he has to cement
himself and his name I D by doing things like
going to the spin room. Now, how did they choose him?
I don't know. I have no idea, but this text
message just made me laugh really really hard. And it
just said Vandy omg Vance attracts more gaze than Polis. Well,

(36:29):
I mean, have you seen them side by side. No
offense to our governor, but you know, come on, JD
grew on me last night, really got my attention. Forgot
the word weird. Yeah, I watched all but five minutes
of the debate. I think Vance, being so polite and
well prepared through Waltz off his game. He seemed lost
most of the time. Yes he did. I do think

(36:52):
that after the first answer, Tim Walls did pull it together.
And I think that the first answer was so bad that, uh, yeah,
you it's hard to forget, really hard to forget Mandy.
I've been watching Vance as a guest on Gutfeld for
a while. When he looks into the camera and smiles,

(37:13):
it's all over for me. And oh yes, he is
very warm and intelligent. He can talk about Trump better
than Trump can. And that was an interesting thing that
happened last night. And I'll see I should have found
it on a break, but I I retweeted this last
night on X what am I supposed to safety? We
ever decided reposting whatever? It's so boring, so boring. I

(37:39):
reposted it last night because it was so funny and
and it was so true, and it was simply that
it was like they repackaged Donald Trump into a kind
of a super version of himself. So let me see
if I can scroll down and find that very quickly,

(38:03):
and I'll find it on the break. So it was
just very, very funny. But Katie Vance did a better
job articulating Donald Trump's positions than Donald Trump has. That
debate last night, I'm just gonna say it. I was
thinking about this. I think that might be the best
debate since maybe twenty twelve when Obama and knit Romney
debated and they had a really substantial debate where Kendy

(38:25):
Crowley decided to fact check nt Romney incorrectly during that debate,
You remember that one, That was a solid debate where
there was a lot of policy talk and stuff like that.
I feel like since then, and part of it is
the fault of Donald Trump. Part of it is the
fault of the Democratic Party losing their minds over Donald Trump.
But we even had good debates, and last night it

(38:46):
was a good debate, a very good debate. This tech said, honestly,
the VP debate so far is much better than the
entirety of the last presidential debate. Two people actually answering
questions is refreshing, and it's sad to see that this
isn't the norm. And so, yeah, that was exactly right,

(39:07):
exactly right, and jd Vance did what he needed to
do and then some So I cannot find that one comment.
A lot of people pointing out that jd Vance just
turned forty, I mean just turned forty, so he's going
to be here for the long haul. You know who's
got to be the most frustrated about Jade Vance's performance

(39:29):
last night is Ron DeSantis. Because Ron DeSantis was the
wrong kind of politician to go up against Donald Trump. Right,
He's just not that guy. Ron DeSantis is very very
very smart. He's super wonky and nerdy, and last night
he saw someone who could do all of that but
do it with charisma, and that is the problem. The
charisma that he doesn't have clearly did have last night.

(39:54):
So dag nabbit, I wish I could find this tweek
because it was so perfect. It was just so so
incredibly perfect. A couple things last night that got said
that I was very frustrated by when Tim Walls this
is the new line by the Democrats, by the way,
because I've already seen it happen in like a bunch

(40:14):
of different Twitter feeds today. Their new line is crime
is not out of control because criminals are not being
prosecuted and kept in jails. Crime is out of control.
It's just the guns. That's what Tim Walls said last night.
It's just sometimes it's just the guns. So Aaron, I
think we need to do an experiment. Okay, we need

(40:35):
to get a pile of loaded weapons. Okay, pile of
loaded guns, and we're gonna put them right here in
the middle of the table, and we're just gonna see
which one of those guns decides to shoot somebody. We're
just gonna if it's just the guns, then a pile
of guns could do a tremendous amount of danger like
that would be terrible. It's never just the guns, No,

(40:57):
matter what Alec Baldwin tells you, they don't fire them.
And I don't know why we have such a cultural
rot in our society. I feel like we've talked it
to death, but we have gun issues that go well
beyond the means of murder. And does anybody think to themselves,
you know what, if we didn't have any guns in society,

(41:17):
we would be peaceful. We would all get along, everybody
would love their neighbors. Everything would be fine. Because that
just I it's not real.

Speaker 7 (41:26):
To the text.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
Ronda Santis is also hot, but is he hot to
the gaze? By the way, I got this text message
over the break right after I talked about that last
story from the Daily Caller about the LGBTQ community loving
jd Vance and someone sent me a text that said, uh,
how dare you?

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Now?

Speaker 5 (41:47):
I got to go back, click here and click there
that said, how dare you say that jd Vance is gay? Anthony?
Did I remotely say imply infer that jd Vance was
playing for the other team?

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Now?

Speaker 3 (42:01):
No? I did not, No, I did not.

Speaker 5 (42:03):
I talked about how the gays love jd Vance And
as a matter of fact, let me get my friend,
do you have Rich Umber Rich's number, do you have it?
Go ahead and give him a call. Get him on
the phone, because Rich is, as a gay man, probably
able to you know, speak to this big gay issue
more than your average bear. So we'll call Rich Guggenheim

(42:25):
from Gay's Against Groomers It's in the name, and find
out if this is going to be the thing that
seals the deal for the gay community and the Trump ticket.
What's interesting to me is that aside from the trans
kid issue, like Republicans and this is one of those
anecdotal stories and maybe you've had a different experience, but
my Republican friends, like we don't talk about homosexuality or

(42:50):
gay rights or any of that. It's just gay marriage
has been codified by the Supreme Court. We're probably going
to vote to take it out of our constitution here
in Colorado. Gay folks now have the rights of other people.
Uh So, what's the problem? Nay, history is the problem.
Rich Guggenheim the token gay for the show right now, Rich,
I need your gayest opinion on this thing because I

(43:13):
shared the Daily Caller article about the gays finding jd
vance dreaming. Are you finding this to be consistent across
the gay community yourself today, I think.

Speaker 9 (43:24):
That there's a lot of us, you know, Mandy, I'll
just say I don't want to be surprised if we
saw the number of gay people who vote for the
Republican ticket this time around jump from what they usually
say is about twenty five percent close to forty percent.
And you know, it helps that jd Vance definitely has
that daddy bear type vibe. And you know, if we're

(43:46):
going to insinuate anything about anybody being gay, if you're
going to insinuate that Jadi Vance is going to be gay,
he's definitely going to be the dominant, dominant man in
the relationship where Wall is off the total bay a Mail.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
Well, I don't think we need to delve into if
they were in a gay relationship that that deeply, But
I mean, you know, in all seriousness, Rich, this is
the thing. I understand why gay people turned away from
the Republican Party in droves when gay marriage was a
huge issue. Right, I understand one hundred percent. I have sympathy.
I have empathy for all of that stuff. It's why

(44:23):
I was an advocate for gay marriage for as long
as I've had a radio show, Right because it was
just wrong. But now you have a gay community that
has the exact same rights with marriage. I think most
Republicans just don't care about the issue anymore because their
fears of somehow creating this huge problem have not that
turned out to be unfounded. So what would it take

(44:45):
in your view to bring Because I know a ton
of gay conservatives right, a ton of people that on
pretty much every issue they lean to the right. But
the history of the Republican Party in gay marriage is
what's keeping them from being a part of of that party.
So what do you think the Republican Party could do
should do to gain those gay conservatives who are just

(45:09):
kind of going about their business in life, and get.

Speaker 9 (45:12):
Rid of Dave Williams. But seriously, the messaging. The Republicans
have done an abysmal job with messaging, and they have
allowed the Democrats to drive the truck for far too long.
And it's unfortunate that it had to come down to
us within our own community saying like, wait, we have rights,
the same right to lose half of our staff and

(45:33):
divorce as straight people. And that's what it comes down to.
We fought for and we won, and at the end
of the day. I think Republicans don't care because we
have conservatives. Our ideology is that freedom and liberty belong
to all of us. Yes, Republicans haven't really talked about that. Look,
you have the same rights and you have the same freedoms.
And if Republicans really wanted to do some fantastic messaging,

(45:55):
they could get out there and say, look, we support you,
and right now the pack on your rights and your
freedoms are coming from inside the House and from the
party that claims to be advocating for your rights. And
that's just simply not the case. So they got to
get ahead of it, and they got to take the
whale from the Democrats. And you know, that's the thing
that I think a lot of us conservative gay people

(46:16):
are seeing with Jadie Vance's this is a guy who
has strong leadership skills. Unlike his opponent, he has strong policy.
We're not voting for personality, we're voting for policy, and
he can hold his own and those are important things
that we look at when we look for people who
are going to be leading not only our country, but

(46:37):
the entire free world. And that's something that I think
is super important to all of us. Although I will
not lie like his saltans ever beard in that side,
I looking into the camera, it was kind of like, what.

Speaker 5 (46:48):
Talk to me, daddy? I just you know, I said
that to a friend of mine. I was like, he
looks so good. It was unbelievable. Now, the photographs of
the debate that are shot from the side are not
nearly as compelling as the camera view was last night.
And I would love to say this doesn't matter, Rich,
but I know there are shallow voters out there who
will be like, oh my god, he's so hot, I'm

(47:09):
voting for him. How much of that right?

Speaker 9 (47:13):
It guess when it comes to that. But I think
it's not just that. I think it is the factor that, like,
he is a good looking he's young, he's got energy,
he's got vibrants, he's got great stage presence, but he
actually comes with substance, unlike this washed up opponent that
he's running against. That it's just I'm sorry to say it,

(47:33):
but I just felt like it was like looking at
a cold pet fish on the stage standing next to him.

Speaker 5 (47:37):
Yeah, he did not he didn't compare well, that's that's
for sure. Rich Gugenheim, what's going on lately? With gays
for gays against groomers, Gays four groomers. I just made
that mistake. What are you guys up to now? How
did the rally go?

Speaker 7 (47:51):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (47:51):
That's coming up this weekend this Saturday at ten am. Yeah,
we got our co founder Sasha is going to be
out here at the rally also, so super exciting if
you want to come. This is such a great event, Mandy.
This is about telling people to leave the kids alone. Honestly,
that's what it's about in the harms of this gender

(48:11):
ideology isn't just for women, it isn't just for children.
This harms us as gays and lesbians as well, and
I'm going to be speaking to that at this rally,
so you know, they can follow us on the socials
Gag Underscore Colorado. And for those of you who cannot
attend it, which we hope you will bring your friends,
especially if they're liberal and live streaming it also, we're

(48:34):
going to be live streaming it from our ex accounts.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
Excellent, Rich Kugenheim, it's so good to talk to you.
Thank you for being the gay representative on the show today.
On this article from the Daily Caller, which was so funny,
absolutely hysterical. I appreciate you man.

Speaker 9 (48:48):
Thanks Mandy, thank you.

Speaker 5 (48:50):
Somebody's given me guff.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (48:51):
Of all the wonderful things you could talk about regarding Dvance,
you stoop to the low level of talking about is
hotness to gaze losing respect for you? Will you missed
the first hour of the show then, where we talked
about all of the things that happened last night. Now
some of the things that happened after. I want you
to listen. I want you to listen to the mediate
reaction to last night's debate. Okay, so just listen to

(49:14):
how the various news networks we're going to start. This
goes from Heraldo Rivera first, and then we go to NBC,
and then we go to News Nation, and then we
go to CNN, and then we go to MSNBC, and
oh boy, it's going to be worth the wait for
the minute that you have to listen to everything else.

Speaker 10 (49:33):
There is no doubt in my mind, however, Governor Walls
did in terms of sincerity, that Vance won this debate.

Speaker 5 (49:42):
Just got little Walls have a problem with the truth. No,
And they were talking.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
At one point, Vans wanted to correct something about how
Haitians got into this country and he was right, and
the moderators.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
Wouldn't let him correct it. It's very interesting.

Speaker 10 (49:56):
But at the beginning, the two issues driving the campaign
right now are Harris has a big depicit on Harris
has a big depicit on immigration, and Republicans were happy
tonight and Democrats a little bit nervous that on those
two issues, Vance carried it.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
Uh jd Vance is a much more experience at public speaking,
at defending himself, at pivoting.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
It's the audacity.

Speaker 9 (50:18):
I agree with you, this is your sign, and no
one knows how to cover the audacity.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
The audacity is is it? Someone should stop it? Stop stop?
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 9 (50:30):
And they should have They should have dropped that bomb, right,
I mean they should have just.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
We this is a debate.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
This may be the only chance people have to see the.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
Difference exactly, exactly. This is what MSNBC wants, right. They
don't want a debate where two people stand up, they
make their comments, they have chance to Rebut the moderators
aside that, which were they were hot garbage. Both men
performed pretty well. Tim Wall's just had some really disastrous

(51:00):
moments that moved the win call him to jd Vance
pretty soundly. I mean, you would have to be a
naked partisan. I don't know if you guys are on
x dot com, but there's a kid I guess he
worked in the Biden administration for a hot minute. He's
like twenty something years old. His name's Harry Nissan. Harry
is like the bagdad Bob of the Democratic Party. And

(51:24):
last night I'd checked in on Harry to see what
he was doing, and it was like, oh my god,
Tim Wallson's wiping the foot with jd Vance. I can't
believe out that he's beating him. So unless you're Harry Nissan,
you know that jd Vance won that debate last night.
But really, I would say that if you're a person
who wants to hear policy positions and discussions and understand

(51:46):
why these two candidates and two candidacies and two teams
are coming at this from different places, this was a
great debate, big time, Mandy. This whole topic of conversation
is insulting the gape when you say they'll vote for
a hot man for that reason alone. Really, Mandy, I
didn't say that. I read the article from the Daily

(52:07):
Caller that I believe was written by gay person, and
I don't think all gay people are gonna vote for you.
Guys have to learn when something is tongue in cheek
on this show. Do you really let me ask you, Texter,
do you really think that all gay people I said
and believe that all gay people are going to vote
for Jadvance because the way he looked, it's not at

(52:27):
all what I said. Just like I said, there's a
small percentage of the population that will vote because of
how jd Vance looks, but not all of them. I mean, you, guys,
sometimes stuff is funny. Sometimes stuff is just silly, and
a column or or story in the Daily Caller about
jd Vance winning the gay vote is funny. So let's

(52:48):
just let it be funny, just for a second, just
for one single second. Last night, this was really where
Tim Walls had I had the most trouble last night,
where he genuinely lost the balls.

Speaker 12 (53:05):
You said you were in Hong Kong during the deadly
Teneman Square protests in the spring of nineteen eighty nine.
The Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets are reporting
that you actually didn't travel to Asia until August of
that year. Can you explain that discrepancy.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Yeah, well, and the folks out there, it didn't get
at the top of this.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
Look.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
I grew up in small, rural Nebraska town of four
hundred town that you rode your bike with your buddies.
Still the street lights come on, and I'm proud of
that service. I joined the National Guard at seventeen, worked
on family farms, and then I used the GI Bill
to become a teacher. Passionate about it a young teacher.
My first year out, I got the opportunity in the
summer of eighty nine to travel to China thirty five

(53:48):
years ago. Be able to do that, I came back
home and then started a program to take young people there.
We would take basketball teams, we would take baseball teams,
we would take dancers, and we would go back and
forth to China. The issue for that was was to
try and learn. Now, look, my community knows.

Speaker 5 (54:05):
Who I am. They saw where I was at. They look.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
I will be the first to tell you I have
poured my heart into my community. I've tried to do
the best I can, but I've not been perfect, and
I'm a knucklehead at times. But it's always been about
that those same people elected me to Congress for twelve years,
and in Congress, I was one of the most bipartisan people,
working on things like farm bills that we got done,
working on veterans benefits, and then the people of Minnesota

(54:31):
were able to elect me to governor twice. So look,
my commitment has been from the beginning to make sure
that I'm there. I joined us that to make sure
that I get this right. I will say more than anything.
Many times I will talk a lot, I will get
caught up in the rhetoric, but being there, the impact
it made, the difference it made in my life.

Speaker 5 (54:50):
I learned a lot about China. I hear the critiques
of this.

Speaker 4 (54:53):
I would make the case that Donald Trump should have
come on one of those trips with US. I guarantee
you he wouldn't be praising Chiji ping about COVID, and
I guarantee you he wouldn't start a trade war that
he ends up losing. So this is about trying to
understand the world.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
It's about trying to do.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
The best you can for your community, and then it's
putting yourself out there and letting your folks understand what
it is. My commitment, whether it be through teaching which
I was good at, or whether it was being a
good soldier or was being a good member of Congress.
Those are the things that I think are the values
that people care about.

Speaker 12 (55:24):
The governor just gave me manage the question. The question
was can you explain the Nancy.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
All I said on this was is I got there
that summer and misspoke on this, So I will.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
Just uh huh, that's what I've said.

Speaker 9 (55:38):
So I was in.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
Hong Kong and China during the democracy protests went in
and from that I learned a lot of what needed
to be in governance.

Speaker 5 (55:50):
Now elied And if you just said, look, you know what,
I misrepresented myself because I really wanted people to know
how important it was or something anything. But the internet
is forever. I have the video on the blog of
him in Congress sharing his memories of being at the
train station. It wasn't like, like, honestly, you guys ever

(56:10):
have this experience where a concert comes up on Facebook
from like ten years ago and you're like, holy crap,
I did see Tom Petty. That's kinda I mean, that's
when you forget how something. But when you say I
have these memories of being in the train station and
Europeans were angry with us for going to each other.
I mean, that's not a misspeak, that's a lie. He

(56:31):
should have owned it. People would have liked him even
better if he owned it, but he didn't, and that
the Harris campaign just left him out, just hung him
out to dry on this, and somebody should have to
pay for that. When we get back, let's talk just
for a minute about the failed yes, I said failed
attack on Israel yesterday. I'll explain after this the audio

(56:53):
of Jared Polus on Hannity last night, and it's thanks
to listener who sent it to me because it is
everything you think it would be and more. So we'll
do that a little bit later. I do want to
talk about the failed attack on Israel yesterday, and yes,
indeed it was a failed attack. One person was killed.

(57:13):
And did you see this on X yesterday? A Rod
the video of the Palestinian man in the West Bank
being killed. Oh, it was one of those things that
popped up on my Twitter feed before I knew what
it was, so I saw it. I don't like to
see stuff like that on my Twitter feed. I usually
unfollow whoever posts that stuff without letting me. Know, there's

(57:35):
a guy standing in a normal street and all of
a sudden, a rocket literally falls on his head and
kills him. It looked like a cartoon only except it
was a real, live human being that ceased to exist.
Happened to be a Palestinian man. So I've now got
several different sources within Israel that I am in touch
with and trying not to give up too much information.

(57:58):
I know that sounds so paranoid, but they're at war
and their safety is more important to me than anything else.
So you're just going to have to trust me. I
don't normally do that and just say, look, you're just
gonna have to trust me. But overwhelmingly the rocket attacks yesterday,
even though they were ballistic missiles, they arrived in twelve
to fourteen minutes. They assumed Iran assumed that they were
going to be able to get through the Iron Dome.

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For the most part, they did not. There were buildings
that were hit, there was damage that was done. A
lot of shrapnel fell in the street, in the streets,
and you have to understand, when the iron Dome hits something,
it blows up whatever it is. But all that shrapnel
still hits the ground. A lot of times people are
injured by the shrapnel. But yesterday there was another attack

(58:41):
that isn't getting as much play, but it was far
more damaging, not just in the loss of life, but
also psychologically to the Israeli people. So one of the
people I was talking with and I said, well, god,
the rocket attacks, and they're like, no, don't worry about it.
We're fine. We all just go to our bomb shelters.
That's so common that they're not even rattled by that.

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But when someone got off public transport and opened fire
and killed seven people and wounded a bunch more, that
rattled the Israelis. So now everybody's walking around with a firearm.
And you have to understand, every Israeli has to serve
two years in the military, and because of that, they
are all trained. Now that doesn't mean that they walk

(59:25):
around carrying guns. They do not, by any stretch of
the imagination. But when you have an entire population that
has gone through military training and knows how to operate
a firearm, When I say everybody's walking around with firearms,
it just got a lot more difficult to get off
public transport and shoot somebody. It just did so net

(59:46):
Yahoo has already indicated that he plans on striking the
Iraqi oil either the port. They don't have any refining
capacity in Iraq anymore, so it would have to be
their exports. And if they do that, you guys, get
ready for a massive oil shock. Iran is still facing
a ton of sanctions, but they're still selling their oil

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all over the world. And if you're getting Iranian oil
right now and they blow up the port that allows
them to offload that oil, this is going to create
a huge shock around the world. There are a couple
things happening right now that look like they can have
a very big impact on our election. One of them
is the port strike. If the port strike goes on

(01:00:28):
the Long Shortman's International Longshoreman's Association, that's it ISLA. They're
on strike now. They want a ridiculous seventy seven percent
raise over the next six years. But more importantly, they
want to make sure that automation doesn't take their jobs. Now,
automation is a double edged sword. Automation does get rid

(01:00:53):
of jobs. How many jobs we don't really know, And
I don't understand why. Last night, after I got done
googling whether or not people actually care about the state
of the democracy and polling, and they don't, by the way,
regardless of what Nora Donald said last night, people don't
care about that right now. It's not even on the
top ten of things that are people, you know, important people.
So after that, I went started looking about automation around

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the world, and the most efficient ports in the world
have embraced automation. But guess what, they still have human
beings because human beings still have to oversee the automation.
And when you're talking about a port, if you've ever
if you've ever had the opportunity to go and watch
how a port operates. I stayed in a hotel one

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time that was right by the Port of Miami. The
hotel was not even there anymore, but it was right
by the Port of Miami and I was born. I
was a flight attendant. We were laying over and there
was nothing around us to do, and I didn't want
to pay for a cab. So I'm sitting in my
hotel where I'm looking out the window, and I watched
how the port operates. It's fascinating. It's like a giant
game of Tetris. Right, They've got a big stack of

(01:01:59):
content over here, they got to move them over here,
they got to stack them on the shop. It's it's
just a fascinating sort of ballet of movement. But you
can look at that, and this was thirty years ago,
so surely there was no automation. This was all dudes
doing this, right, But you could figure out very easily
using the sort of technology that Amazon is adopting in

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warehouses now, where they now have on Amazon warehouses where
they have robots that pick all of the items, they
go and grab whatever it is the order has, and
so you could imagine that technology still being you know,
or be being used. And this is what the longshoremen
don't want. They don't want automation. They want to make
sure that automation is not part of the future. What

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they're arguing for, in reality is a less efficient system
that they control. And so if they remain on strike,
and Joe Biden is shown absolutely no and I mean
no interest inforcing lawng shortman out of this strike, I
mean no, he's not even leaning on them, mister nineteen

(01:03:05):
fifties pro union Joe Biden guy. He's like, these guys
are great. But the problem is is that if we
start going into stores and see seeing, you know, empty shelves,
we are reminded of COVID. We then everything gets more
expensive because they're in a scarcity situation. The patio furniture
that you ordered, or the new Christmas tree that you ordered,

(01:03:26):
it's not going to come in. That is terrible in
this election cycle. So we've got that, We've got this
oil situation because of Israel bomb's Iraqi's port. Then that
creates an oil shock throughout the economy, just in time
for ballots to drop. I mean, you guys, there's so
many things in the world that are happening that could

(01:03:46):
influence this election, and as an American, I don't want
any of them to happen. I don't want to pay
higher prices. I don't want to face empty shelves. I
don't want to pay more for gas. Or from a
strictly political perspective, the stuff going on around the world
far more likely to get Donald Trump re elected than
anything he could do himself. Mandy, do the longshoreman not

(01:04:07):
realize by going on strike it only furthers a company.
Look at automation, they're operating like a modern day mafia. Correct.
The problem is is that they have such a monopoly
on how the ports operate right now, and the shipping
companies haven't done anything to change that really, So now

(01:04:28):
if you want stuff off ships, you got to go
through the long shoreman. We'll see what happens next, Mandy.
They deserve the rays us hard working men and women
doing physical jobs that are essential to society in our
way of life. We sacrifice our health and families to
do these jobs for people like Ross and yourself. We
don't deserve more money. Well wait a minute. First of all,
have you seen what these longshoremen actually do. They're not

(01:04:50):
slinging bags of dog food off of a ship onto
the dock. They're driving forkliffs. They're driving massive cranes. They
drop down and pick up the containers with This is
not the long shortman of old, where they're out there
he even ropes to throw them to the chips as
they come into It's not that way.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:05:11):
I'm not saying there's not a physical aspect. This isn't
like construction work, right. I don't know if you'll ever
be able. Maybe we will at some point in the future,
I don't know, but you can never take the physical
labor out of construction work. Right, if you're a master carpenter,
you are going to have to use your body to
do your job. Long shortman. No, no, no, no, not

(01:05:31):
at all, not like it used to be. Man, Mandy,
are they gonna bomb Iran or Iraq? Did I say Iraq?
I think I did. I'm sorry about that. Iran. Mandy,
you're glad I have my electric car. Well, until the
price of natural gas goes up and your electric car
that has to be charged using fossil fuels has to

(01:05:53):
pay that just throwing that out there, Mandy, Joe Biden
I used to be a long shortman and they're good guys. Yes,
I'm just maybe that was Tim Walls. Yeah, Mandy, this
all does mode well for Trump, and thank you to
all of you for correcting me. It's not Iraq, it's
Iran that we're talking about. Mandy. I'm a nurse with

(01:06:15):
a master's degree. I would give anything to make close
to what the long shoreman make. But you're just a nurse.
You don't have to use your body. Oh wait, you do.
It's not like your job is life or debt. Oh
wait it is. Huh yeah, hmm. Interesting. We'll be right
back Manny, do you know the origin of the word
long shoreman? Do you know the origin a rod of

(01:06:36):
the word long shoreman? No, nor did I, But Andy,
it originated as man along the shore or a long shoreman.
Huh now, Andy, that could be a complete lie. I
don't know, but it seems legit. This is another example.
If you say something with enough authority, people will believe you.
And the person who just texted is this the Mandy

(01:06:58):
Conald text line? Yes, it is this text Amanda. You
mentioned Amazon. It started as a bookseller and did it
with automation. You could have a fiction book next to
a nonfiction book. That's how they grew or wasted. Space
didn't matter the product. If there's space, puts something there,
know where it is, and get it when ordered. Very
simple if you think about it. The strike is the
elimination of their jobs, but they believe the union doesn't

(01:07:20):
give a crap about them. So, Mandy, many professionals, nurses, therapists,
and even teachers with second degrees can't make anything close
to what longshoreman wages. And I heard that the college
interests have declined for the trades. Wow, especially for young men.
We need to have somebody on about that. I'm actually
here for this for a couple of reasons, and I'm

(01:07:42):
talking about the fact that more and more young people
are going into the trades and are seeking a trade
career instead of going to college route. There's a couple
of reasons why number one trade school is a fraction
of the cost and a fraction of the time of
actual college. But here's why I think it's just an

(01:08:02):
incredibly brilliant idea for young people. There's certain trades out
there that the people that do them are all getting
getting ready to retire, right because we lost a whole
generation where everybody was told go to college, go to college,
go to college, go to college, and now we don't
have certain tradesmen, people who work machinists, things of that nature.

(01:08:25):
A lot of those guys are in their late fifties,
early sixties. They're ready to retire. There's no one to
take over their companies, there's no one to take over
their jobs. I read an article this morning, and I
don't remember if it was the Washington Post or the
Wall Street Journal, and it was about the potential wealth
transfer that is about to happen in this country from

(01:08:48):
the boomers to millennials is about to be huge, but
not in terms of inheritance. You have all of these
baby boomers that own companies. They own business is, they
own retail establishments, they own machine shops, they own painting companies,
plumbing companies, and they're looking to sell them and you've

(01:09:09):
got to have the right people to buy them. And
so this is this is very interesting, the way kids
are looking for a way to not have a huge
amount of debt and make a lot of money. My
old hairdresser in Florida is a great example of this.
She got out of high school, didn't know what she
wanted to do in college, so she went to hair school.
She went to cosmetology school, learned how to do hair.
Once she became a hairdresser, she was amazing at it.

(01:09:31):
She decided to go back and get a college degree.
Ended up not only getting a bachelor's, getting a master's
getting a doctorate while she was cutting hair. So zero
debt coming out of school because she was paying as
she goes. And now she has a big muckety muck
position overseeing a lot of other people who are teaching
other people how to do hair. I mean, it's like

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the trades are a great way to either make a
great living or to if you decide you do want
to go to college and you do have something you
want to purson too, the trades are a great way
to pay for that in real time and come out
of college without a giant pile of debt. Mandy, my
husband's an electrician and is getting ready to retire. Exactly

(01:10:13):
my point. Longshortmen are on the boat. Steve adores are
on the pier and removing things in the boat. No
one under seventy knows what a Steve ador is, and
I tell them it's what my boyfriend does. And you're right,
his non union company can't get any young men to
work outside in one hundred and twenty degrees to minus
twenty degree weather, correct, because we gain a generation of

(01:10:36):
softies here when we get back. Let me see what
else I've got so much stuff about. I've got a
bunch of good videos and a bunch of memes on
the blog last night, but I have to talk a
little bit about the moderators. I'd love to hear from you, like,
what if you watched it, if you didn't, if you
didn't watch it, how much of it have you seen today?
Just curious and what are you seeing because I'm going

(01:11:00):
to share something from the Associated Press where they're absolutely
covering for Tim Walls. And I'm thinking to myself, if
people don't watch the debate, which most people don't, and
they're just getting the coverage, they're not going to get
a feel for what actually happened. We'll do that next.

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Welcome to the third hour of the show. I'm your host,
Mandy Connell here for the last hour with a rod.
We're taking you right through a busy broadcast day. I
want to play the the Jared Poulis on Sean Hannity

(01:11:53):
last night. So Jared Polis will be running for president
in twenty twenty eight. I'm telling you right now, dude's
ready for president and he is out trying to raise
his name ID in places that he currently doesn't have
great name ideas. So he thought it was a good
idea to go on Sean Hannity last night as part
of the spin team for Tim Walls, and this is

(01:12:14):
what it sounded like. All right, joining us now.

Speaker 13 (01:12:17):
I can't believe the Harris campaign offered a surrogate, but
they did.

Speaker 9 (01:12:21):
And we're very glad to have.

Speaker 13 (01:12:23):
Democratic Colorado Governor Jared polis Is with us. I love Colorado,
love the people of Colorado. Rocky Mountain High which you'd
go red instead of blue?

Speaker 7 (01:12:33):
All right?

Speaker 13 (01:12:33):
I want to ask you serious questions and see if
you're going to give me straight.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
Answers, and I'm going to give you time to answer.

Speaker 13 (01:12:40):
Great Kamala Harris sponsors the co sponsor with Bernie Sanders,
the New Green Deal ninety three trillion dollars, The New
Green Deal, which is a cradle to grave, womb to
the tomb government sponsored, covered everything, and we don't know
with thirty five days before election day, she still supports it.
She spots today, do you think the New Green Deal

(01:13:02):
is good for America?

Speaker 11 (01:13:03):
And the fact that she co sponsored that, I'll answer
that very clearly, Sean.

Speaker 5 (01:13:06):
And first, thanks for having me on. I appreciate you here,
and you know, fair chance. Why are Democrats afraid of me?
I'm a nice guy. I know, I'm not afraid.

Speaker 11 (01:13:13):
Hey, look, Donald Trump once supported single payer healthcare and
he said, so, well was that, uh, you know, it
was the nineties, I mean right nineties.

Speaker 13 (01:13:22):
He's Hillary Clinton on his wedding.

Speaker 11 (01:13:25):
Look, well, well, yeah, I'd love to I would have
loved to have Hillary Clinton my medwa. But but look,
here's the deal, and she does not support all the
policies of the Green New Deal.

Speaker 5 (01:13:36):
When did she stop supporting him?

Speaker 13 (01:13:37):
And why doesn't she say that?

Speaker 5 (01:13:38):
And why doesn't she do interview?

Speaker 11 (01:13:39):
Will look like any bill, it's a it's a big
complicated bill. Does she support investments in clean infrastructure?

Speaker 5 (01:13:45):
Some of them were in the American Recovery sponsored it?

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
And she said very clearly she.

Speaker 11 (01:13:51):
Doesn't support Bernie Sanders. The Green New Deal was sponsored
it with Bernie right, and Donald Trump was for single
payer healthcare.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
So I'm the ninety nine that's a long time ago.

Speaker 13 (01:14:01):
How are you going to explain this away? She co
sponsored with Bernie Medicare for all, government health care for
all with no right to private health insurance. That's her words.
She would get rid of it, and you can't if
she's not answered. Does she still stand by that? And
I think we have a right for her to answer that.

Speaker 11 (01:14:19):
Don't you believe she has answered in Sean Wynn absolutely
win is how mose to abolishing private incell? Well, she
said it in time again, She's not for abolishing private insure.

Speaker 5 (01:14:28):
She did not say it over and over again.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Look, she's never said it.

Speaker 11 (01:14:31):
I'm for expanding Medicare. I think Kamala Harris is for
expanding Medicare, but she's absolutely not going to abolish anybody's
private insurance.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
I assure you that Kamala.

Speaker 5 (01:14:41):
Harris would do the same in this share.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
I've never heard her do that. But you're a nice guy.

Speaker 5 (01:14:45):
I'm not going to push your harder.

Speaker 13 (01:14:47):
Why does she think it's courageous to never say the
words radical Islamic terrorism or illegal alien?

Speaker 9 (01:14:53):
Why is that?

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
In twenty nineteen who.

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
Attacked us on nine to eleven.

Speaker 11 (01:14:57):
Yeah, I don't follow her every word, but yes they were,
there were show they were radical Islamic terrorists.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
She said the Americans.

Speaker 13 (01:15:05):
Should have the courage to never say radical Islamic terrorism
for illegal aliens.

Speaker 11 (01:15:10):
Well, look, I think what she was trying to get across,
and we're all imperfect in how we do it is
is there's good Americans who are of the Louslim faith.
You know that, I know that you're probably radical friends,
who are radical members of any faith who used their
faith as an excuse to exact violence and other people,
and attacking us in Americans is inexcusable, illegal. And she's
a former prosecutor, She's prosecuted people for hate crimes. She's

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prosecuted people who engaged her backs of violence.

Speaker 7 (01:15:34):
Nobody talks about it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:35):
No, wait a minute, I just want to point out
Jared Polis is not answered to either of the questions.
He did not provide any documentation. And if anybody in
this listening audience can find where Kamala Harris said she
is no longer in favor of getting rid of private
health insurance, please send it to me. And I'm of
the ilk that I am fine with people changing their

(01:15:56):
opinion on stuff, but she had got to explain how
and why and the answer can't just be because it's
politically expedient, right, But I'll let him continue not answering
the questions, not.

Speaker 13 (01:16:07):
Hate crimes, radical Islamic terrorism, the terrorists that attacked us
at nine to eleven and Israel on October seventh. All right, next, question,
and Kamala wants to decriminalize her words.

Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
I have the Kamala files.

Speaker 7 (01:16:20):
It's on my website.

Speaker 5 (01:16:21):
You can listen to it.

Speaker 13 (01:16:22):
Decriminalize the illegal immigration. She wants to offer free food, housing, healthcare, education,
free taxpayer funded sex change surgeries, a path to citizenship,
and she's never denounced that either. Do you think taxpayers
ought to be paying for all of that for people
that don't respect our laws, our sovereignty, and our border.

Speaker 11 (01:16:44):
S In any discussion of immigration, it starts with securing
the border shown and we've got to secure the border.

Speaker 5 (01:16:51):
There's a biparty s.

Speaker 13 (01:16:52):
Taxpayers pay free housing, healthcare, education, and sex change surgery
or illegal immigrant times.

Speaker 11 (01:16:58):
You're talking in a different way Americans. Americans don't get
free housing. You know that there's not free young We
have housing vouchers for some level tas. No, first of all,
she will secure our border. Donald Trump wants to a
political issue rather of course I do.

Speaker 13 (01:17:15):
Okay, I will bet you any amount of money that
I can play those words and horror in her own
words saying that she supports all of that.

Speaker 11 (01:17:22):
Well, I mean, look, you can play a lot of
words that I wish you did more of Donald Trump
saying things that are totally important when he's been on
every side of every issue in kamaliss So what I'm
saying is everybody and taxpayers should pay for housing, health care, education,
and sex change forbody.

Speaker 5 (01:17:37):
You know what's interesting is listening to Jared Pohl is
trying to get out of this while we are doing
all of those exact things, not the sex changes, not yet,
but we're paying for all of that stuff for all
these people that have come over the country into the
country illegally. But I'll let them continue. It's almost over.
I promise that as.

Speaker 11 (01:17:54):
Somebody who's been governor of Colorado and been in Congress,
I trust Kamala Harris to secure the board.

Speaker 5 (01:17:58):
You support those powers. I think we should secure the border.

Speaker 11 (01:18:02):
And then you know, do I support work permits for
immigrants we need in our economy. Sure, right, we got
to fix the whole thing, but it starts with securing
the border. Kamala Harris's plan is by partisan we'd add
border patrol, agents, would ad technology would actually secure.

Speaker 13 (01:18:14):
It rather than keeping it as a political issue, set
or all of these things. Then you just want to
just deny that she said it, because she did say it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
All of them.

Speaker 11 (01:18:21):
Well, I think Donald Trump said a lot more nutty
things more recently than Kamala Harris.

Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
But I think people.

Speaker 11 (01:18:26):
Evolving grow and she is a leader who will respond
to the time.

Speaker 5 (01:18:29):
She's going to be a ragmatic She has.

Speaker 11 (01:18:31):
Supporters from across the politicals to Jeff Flake, and she's
just going to represent all of them.

Speaker 13 (01:18:35):
We had nearly six hundred riots in this country and
after a police precinct in Minnesota, Minneapolis was learning around
four days later, she supported a mail fund. She tweeted
out and then said on Colbert the rioters aren't going
to stop. They shouldn't stop, and we're not going to stop.
Did you support insurrection that day?

Speaker 11 (01:18:52):
I think she's the kind of president that can bring
people together rather than divide us and play people against
one another.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
They're not going to answer, are you.

Speaker 5 (01:18:58):
I think she can heal, yeah, answer or anything. And that,
my friends, is why he's gonna run for a president.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
He is.

Speaker 5 (01:19:07):
By the way, the comments section under this video on YouTube, Wow,
let's just say not a lot of polist fans in
the comments section. I mean, man, yeah, yeah, Now I
realize it's on Fox News' YouTube channel, but yeah, not
a lot of love, not at all. I would not

(01:19:31):
want to be a surrogate. Is that a job you
would want? Like, I mean, this is the thing, Like,
would you want to have to go and explain someone
else's choices, words, behaviors. There's no way I would do that,
especially when you're I wouldn't do it for Donald Trump
because I just I don't. I don't want to try
and explain things that I think are ass nine And
I certainly wouldn't do it for Kamala Harris, who has
held every position on everything, and not in the nineties.

(01:19:56):
I'm talking in twenty nineteen. He held every position on everything.
Didn't Biden make Kamala the borders are now? Remember the
media has corrected that now, even though they called her
the borders are for years until she failed at it,
and now they're like no, no, no, no no. Her
job was to attack the root causes, the root causes

(01:20:19):
of things, the root the causes, Mandy. As the kids say,
Paula said nothing but yeappen correct, correct Mandy. It sounds
like Sean Hannity is trying to strangle baby President Jared
in the crib. Oh maybe not true. Trump supported single
healthcare during single payer healthcare. During the twenty sixteen debate,

(01:20:43):
when he talked about how great the Canadian and Scottish
healthcare systems were, he supported single payer health care. By
I mean he actually said we want single Did that happen?
I don't know. I'm gonna find out. I don't remember that.
And since he tried to repeal Obamacare several times, I'm
not sure that I'm buying that. Mandy is handedy usually

(01:21:08):
this sharp. I've kind of started tuning him out over
the last few years. I'm not a handity fan, I
admit it. I don't watch, I don't pay attention, so
I don't know. Maybe it is maybe maybe maybe handity
fans in the audience. Is that how his standard is
as of late? You can text us at five six six,
I know, so let me understand it says this text

(01:21:28):
or this guy who tried to build the wall doesn't
want to secure the border. Okay, are you the sort
a rod who's gonna drive up into the mountains to
see the leaves change? That's something you're gonna do little
Sunday drive. Well, you can't because you're working the Broncos.
So no, you just don't have any free time to
do that free time.

Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
Well, it seems like you.

Speaker 5 (01:21:51):
Might be lucky because apparently we are loving our leaf
peeping to death. People are complaining that trying to go
up and check out the leaves. Heather Vigil, this is
where our friends at Fox thirty one. For twenty five years,
Heather Vigil has taken us two eighty five to Guenela
Pass to see the fall leaves. But this year, she said,

(01:22:13):
conditions are worse than they've ever been. She and her
husband would take two eighty five to the mountains for
autumn picnics and to enjoy the fall colors. They usually
take the trip multiple times a year. However, this year's
drive was much different. They left on Saturday morning at
about nine thirty am. She said it was like driving

(01:22:33):
in la and it took them five and a half
hours to get to Georgetown. You guys, the traffic has
been a problem for many residents this fall, as some
have reported illegally parked cars and gridlock conditions on the
way to Guanela Pass. While Vigil notes the bumper to
bumper traffic, she also said the conditions were just disgusting.

(01:22:59):
She said, we've never ever seen it this bag. The
porta potties were overflowing, and piles of dog relief bags
were everywhere. Illegal parking, broken side mirrors, people and dogs
walking in the middle of the road, not allowing cars through. Well,
why can't we just act right?

Speaker 7 (01:23:18):
Really?

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
She thinks Colorado will end up with a timed entry
passes to see the fall leaves, which will be frustrating,
much like they've had to do at Rocky Mountain National
Park because we've loved it to death. Now I am
supposed to drive to a down South this week, and
I love driving down to eighty five, But now it's

(01:23:40):
given me pause. I don't know. I don't know if
I want to go down to eighty five, might have
to just go down twenty five, which is much uglier, drive,
much uglier. So I just thought that was interesting. I
wonder if any of you have had that experience. I'm
going to be perfectly frank when I say, coming from
the East Coast, I am not dazzled by aspens. Aspens

(01:24:04):
are all one color. If you go up the East Coast,
you see like a coat of many colors. You drive
in like the Blue Ridge Parkway. Well you can't now,
maybe you could drive in the Blue Ridge Parkway, I'm
thinking about where it goes. But you drive up on
the eastern coast and you get all of this just
gorgeous color. So the first year, first two years we
were here, I was like, oh, let's go look at

(01:24:25):
the leaves. And we went up and I was like, look,
they're all yellow. Neat wasn't dazzled.

Speaker 6 (01:24:31):
I don't know if I should say this on air,
but I'm gunna call it for Colorado is an overrated name.
The Pacific Northwest. Yeah, in New England, you're talking about
the right time of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:24:41):
Wait, way more colorful. We have colors in our rocks, though,
are rock formations, red rocks and things of that nature.
I mean, we do have for me color for Colorado.
I always think, like the broncos are orange and blue, right,
that's her colors. Beautiful. That's because we get that in
our sky at sunset so often, where you just see
these incredible blue skies, just streaks of orange. I feel

(01:25:03):
like that's where colorful Colorado comes from. Not necessarily are leaves.
I know, Pacific Northwest, I know I've been there. Mandy
went to Guanila Pass on a Wednesday and The traffic
was crazy. I've never seen it like that. Georgetown was packed.
Porta potties were gross. Mandy. I was there on Saturday

(01:25:24):
around eleven. It was busy but not bad. Parks were clean. Mandy, me,
the wife and the dog drove to a great trailhead
and hiked a trail to see the colors. It's wyoming,
so no crowds. Yeah, that would be different, Mandy. I
would like to know how many out of state plates
were on that drive. I don't know, you guys, a
lot of people come here and rent a car that
still has a Colorado plate. Mandy. Would you discuss local, national,

(01:25:49):
and international news issues?

Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
You rock?

Speaker 5 (01:25:51):
Well, Thank you very much for that, Mandy. The first
words out of Jared's mouth to Sean Hannity's first question
about Kamalist support of the Green New Deal, where I'll
answer that very clearly. Well, alrighty then, Jared, we're all
still waiting. Yeah, Mandy, you get the healthcare, you pay
the bill. That's single payer, right. Well, we actually have
a third party payer system pretty much now, and that

(01:26:13):
is a big reason that we have distorted the market.
As a matter of fact, let me dip into that
when we get back. It's kind of boring, but it's
also really important as we move to third party payers
for a lot of our stuff in life. I'll explain
when we get back some really funny memes from last
night's debate, so you can check that out. We just

(01:26:35):
had a text message a few minutes ago, and I
don't it's already rolled through, so I can't tell you
exactly what it said. But somebody said, why would Jared
Polus go on with Sean Hannity Fox? Voters are not
going to vote for him. The thing you have to
understand about those decisions, it is all about raising his
name id, because nobody outside the West that's not a

(01:26:56):
Democrat knows about Jared Polis and he's done a great
job of spinning the yarn, and it is such a
yarn that he is some kind of libertarian. So now
he just needs people to know his name. You'd be
shocked at how much name id matters in getting someone elected.
So that's why I went on Hannity and tried to
spind Kamala Harris. But yeah, no, a lot of you

(01:27:17):
are sending me alternate routes and things like this. We
live like at the foot of Kenosha Pass. There were
definitely more people this year, but not out of control.
It's good for the local economy, so we tolerated. But
I want to talk about third party payer systems for
just a second. I don't remember why this came up
in the last break, but I want to throw this
out here because this is something I think about a lot,

(01:27:39):
and what I'm seeing in our society right now is
people are buying more and more forms of insurance. Health
insurance distorts the health insurance market or the health care market,
because when you are not one hundred percent responsible for
the bills that you are getting, you are far more
likely to say, yeah, do all the tests. We do

(01:28:00):
all the tests because you're only going to be paying
a small portion of that because you have health insurance.
And there's no incentive to try to mitigate your use
of doctor's visits. Now, if you're really, really, really sick
and you need a doctor, go to the doctor. But
how many people go to the doctor every five minutes.

(01:28:21):
I have a friend that I love dearly, love this
person dearly, but holy cow, they get a sniffle Oh,
I got to make a doctor's appointment when though you
don't you got a cold, you don't need to go
to the doctor. Now, if you are paying all those
bills out of pocket, it makes a big difference. Now,
what I'm seeing now is people are starting to buy

(01:28:41):
other forms of insurance. Have you seen the auto insurance
that you can buy not for a wreck, but for repairs.
How about the pet insurance that you can buy to
take your pet to the vet. Now, all of these
things are great if you can't afford a big out
of pocket expense. I get it. I've lived through those
times in my life. I'm now able to absorb those

(01:29:01):
big bills a little bit better. But what it does
is the people that you're going to, the veterinarians, the mechanics,
they know you're not paying that bill, and so it
allows them to raise the prices before you say, I
can't afford to be here anymore, because now somebody is
offsetting that bill. So third party payment systems distort what

(01:29:24):
things cost. Not to mention the paperwork, the administrative stuff
that has to happen in these programs that they have
to be paid for. When next time you do go
to your doctor's office, ask the lady behind the counter
or the man behind the counter when you check in, Like,
how much of this practice do you think is dedicated
to dealing with insurance? This is why doctors are increasingly

(01:29:46):
selling their practices to medical or hospital systems, and they're
basically offloading all of that administrative stuff off to someone else,
because a hospital system has entire departments that are dedicated
to nothing but insurance billing and stuff like that. So
it is it's not necessarily a good thing. Sure you

(01:30:11):
get insurance, but it creates these distortions that make everything
more expensive. I mean, look at higher education, you guys.
Higher education has blown past the rate of inflation for decades.
Now you know why because the people buying it are
not paying for it right then now they're going to

(01:30:32):
pay for it later in the form of massive student loans.
But it makes some bad consumers, right. My daughter said
that she wanted to go to a certain college, and
I said that college is fifty thousand dollars a year.
That is not a thing we're doing, and it's not
a thing I would let her do, because even if
she came to me and said I want to take
out student loans, I would say absolutely not. As your parent,

(01:30:54):
it is my responsibility to make sure you don't leave
college with two hundred thousand dollars in debt. That's not
a thing we're going to allow. But when you don't
have to pay the bill up front, you're like, oh,
I can pay I'll get a great job going. No, No,
you don't have that guarantee. You don't know what's gonna
happen when you graduate. You don't know how you know
in many cases, like what is your degree actually worth

(01:31:17):
upon graduation in an entry level position? So the third
party payer system is not great. It's just it isn't great. Mandy.
Is it possible to get the blog emailed every day? Thanks?
Not currently, But I have a question that I've been
meeting to ask. Thank you Texter for bringing that up.

(01:31:40):
If I created my own email list to email from
my own thing, like if you wanted that, would you
sign up for it? And then I would just send
it out every day. Honestly, I'm thinking about making the
blog a newsletter. That's a big thing right now, and

(01:32:00):
then I can reach people that were not part of
the program, and eventually I could charge you for it
no offense. But you know, I think the blog is
worth like four or five bucks a month for you,
just letting you know. So if you would like that,
if you would love to have the blog email to you,
there are so many ways to make that happen. The
problem is is that a lot of the software that
you use for that, the sort of customer management software

(01:32:23):
now spam folders eat it up when you send an
email from that address. So it's kind of tough.

Speaker 3 (01:32:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:32:31):
We'll have to see Mandy. My doctor of twenty two
years just told me they no longer accept Medicare and
a new law prevents them from taking self pay cash visit.
So that is something I've got to look into, because
you're now the second person that has told me this,
and I'm not sure about why they can't take cash

(01:32:53):
from you. I don't understand that part of it. I'm
not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying I need to
look into that. I have not looked into that. If
anyone is listening in our audience who works in a
medical field, works in a medical office, who knows the
answer to that, why is that? Why can you not
cash pay?

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
So?

Speaker 5 (01:33:12):
Yeah, Mandy's your daughter considering trade school? No, not currently,
My daughter really wants to be an FBI profiler, Like
for a kid who's in tenth grade. She's been focused
on this like a laser for the last two years,
and she's like, no, I want to be an FBI profiler,
but we don't know exactly how that what that career

(01:33:33):
path looks like. As a matter of fact, if any
of you, Dave Logan, do you know any FBI profilers?
Do you know any of that, anybody who does that job? Anyone? Wait,
turn him on for a second. Yeah, I do not.
Dang it, I thought Dave Logan would know everyone.

Speaker 3 (01:33:47):
I do not.

Speaker 5 (01:33:49):
Do you do you know an FBI profiler? No, I'm
trying to find one. My daughter wants to be one
when she grows up. But we need to know the
career path, Like how do you go from you know,
like college, what do you take in college? Yeah? And
how do you work your way into the FBI profiler world?
How do you do that? I mean, if if you
wanted to be a head coach of a high school
football team, I would come to you right away. She

(01:34:09):
could do that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Yeah, I guarantee you.

Speaker 5 (01:34:11):
Now, Hey, I've got twenty minutes before I go on
the air. Let me work on this, Okay, get on that. See.
This is why Dave Logan is the best, because right
now he's going to lead this studio and he's gonna
get on the horn and he's gonna find me an
FBI profiler. Because he's Dave Logan. He can do it.
He can do it. Mandy, I would pay to have
the blog daily. I can't get it every day. Yes, okay,

(01:34:33):
so this is going to move me. I have ten people,
that's great. I'll start my list. It's ten people. It's fine,
it's fine. You guys can all do it in later, Mandy,
have you ever looked at the explanation of benefits from
your health insurance? The doctor charges one hundred dollars, insurance
plan says the only pay fifty dollars. Your cope is
twenty dollars. What happens to the other thirty dollars? Is

(01:34:55):
that a tax right off for the doctors? It's not
a tax right off. It's anything about reasonable and customer.
Some doctor's offices will make you pay it, but most
of the time they have agreed with your insurance company,
especially if you have a network, to pay to take
accept a certain amount of that money. And all of
those prices are so overinflated, you guys. I mean, all

(01:35:17):
you have to know. All you have to do to
find out how overinflated medical prices actually are when they
go through insurance is to just ask how much does
this cost if I pay cash? Ask that question you
will be floored. And here's the thing. From insurance company
to insurance company, they negotiate different payment rates. Some insurance

(01:35:41):
companies pay really well. That's why a lot of doctors
take their insurance. Some insurance companies pay like crap, like Medicare.
And this person who texted and said, my doctor is
leaving Medicare after twenty two years. You're going to see
this more and more often because Medicare reimbursements are in
some cases below the actual cost of the procedure, the

(01:36:03):
shot whatever. There was a shot. We had a doctor
in Florida and he took our insurance because Chuck is
a disabled veteran. We have track Care Prime Great insurance.
Once you learn how to work it, it's the learning
how to work it thing that's like a big old
learning curve. That being said, he stopped taking our insurance

(01:36:24):
and we asked him why. He said, because they are
requiring me to give this vaccination. It was well before COVID,
so it was just a normal vaccinate, maybe a flu
shot something like that. He said, they're requiring me to
give this flu shot. They're only allowing me to charge
ten dollars for it. They are only reimbursing me for
five dollars. The shot itself cost fifty five dollars. So
every time he gave one of those shots, he lost

(01:36:46):
forty bucks. Hard cost. This isn't like, you know, so
it's crazy the way things go. Mandy looks for a
profile or he has a podcast in contact that that
is genius. That is genius, Mandy. The FBI does not
require a specific degree program to become an FBI profiler,

(01:37:07):
but most agencies recommend a relevant fields such as psychology, sociology, criminology,
and forensics. My son's high school has a criminology pathway.
That's really she wants to do, like criminal psychology. She
wants to go that route. So yeah, there you go, Mandy.
I'm glad your program is worth what I'm paying for it. Haha.

(01:37:28):
Texter smarty pants, Smarty Smarty, you guys are so funny, Mandy.
I'd subscribe to the Mandy stack. Oh my god, I'm
gonna call it the Mandy Stack. Grab that url right
after the show. Hang on, I gotta see if anybody
already has it. Okay, ooh yay you guys, Arod, can
you vamper something while I grab this url from GoDaddy,

(01:37:52):
I already have an account there, I already own. Does
anybody else just buy urils that they think are a
good good name? Anybody, anyone at all? Anyone? Nope? Just me, okay,
just me, yes, yes, naked yours? Hang on, y'all, I'm
literally buying this during the show right now. Just taking

(01:38:14):
care of business right now. Take that away. Looks good?
Keep going yep, yep, yep, yep. Side in all right,
here we go. Now I'll finish this now that I've
saved it, I can finish that later. There's a couple
of things on the blog that I want to get to.
One of them is a very funny video that a

(01:38:34):
Rod sent me, and I was like, wait till you're
after fifty. It's a guy saying, well, here's what it's
like to sneeze after after thirty. Yeah, wait till you
throw your back out picking up a sock, not even
a heavy sock, just a sock, and you're crippled for
like six weeks. One thing I have on the blog
today that I want you to go look at. I
find this really interesting because I think this is gonna

(01:38:57):
happen more and more, and it might explain why gen
Z is struggling in the workplace. We talked not too
long ago about a new survey of companies that showed
that gen Z especially is struggling to get going in
the workplace, and that many of those employers have had

(01:39:18):
to fire gen Z employees because they can't communicate, They
get upset when you criticize them. They can't take any
kind of feedback, you know. Everybody's like I love feedback
until it's negative feedback, and then it's like, I hate feedback, feedback,
Sun died feedback. But if you watch this video, it
is a young woman sitting at a table doing an

(01:39:41):
online interview. Okay, so she's got her Zoom call up
in her laptop.

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
Sitting in the middle of her computer is her.

Speaker 5 (01:39:49):
Phone with chat, GPT or some other I didn't see
if it was SHAT, GPT or some other AI. And
it's open and as the interviewer is asking a question.
It is feeding into chat GPT and as soon as
the interviewer finishes the question, she hits go and then
she proceeds to read verbatim the answer that chat GBT

(01:40:13):
is providing for her in this interview. And I'm like,
Holy crap, I am so behind on the whole AI thing.
I feel like I should be able to use AI
to make my job much easier, like everybody keeps saying,
Oh my god, AI is the way to make your
job so much easier. But it doesn't because I don't
know how to use it. Hey, Mandy, the guy who

(01:40:36):
killed four people in Idah, who had a master's of
criminal psychology. That is not helpful. That is not helpful
at all. Mandy. Should it be Mandy Stacked?

Speaker 3 (01:40:48):
Maybe?

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
But see substack, Mandy Stack. You're starting to see where
I'm going here, Mandy. Masters in psychology are a doctorate
in psychiatry. That's a lot of school. Check out the
University of New Haven. They have one of the best
programs for forensic science and criminal justice. My sister, my daughter,
is a senior there in her forensic science program. My

(01:41:09):
daughter's decided she wants to go to school in the UK.
She wants to go to Cambridge. Now will that happen?
I don't know, but I gotta tell you, guys, European
colleges way cheaper than I thought they would be, and
they are actually colleges in Europe. If you want to
go to an Oslo, Norway, you can go to college

(01:41:29):
for free in Oslo, Norway. Of course you have to
live through a winter where the sun is only up
for like five hours a day, but whatever, it's fine, right.
If you love the dark, this is the school for you.
But I was kind of shocked when we started looking
into what I was assuming it would be prohibitively expensive.

Speaker 3 (01:41:45):
But there are.

Speaker 5 (01:41:46):
Deals to be had, and these are all English speaking
European colleges. You know what I should have. The lady
we talked to, we talked to.

Speaker 6 (01:41:53):
A young woman.

Speaker 5 (01:41:53):
She's got a company that helps people get into college
in Europe. I'm gonna get her on the show because
it was fascinating. She should just start with a criminology degree,
can start at a community college and finish up at
a four year school. I have two nieces who obtained
these degrees, one who graduated from Metro and has worked
for over twenty years. In the DEA, great option as
well as the FBI. Now here's the thing, you guys,

(01:42:15):
it's not working for the FBI. She wants to be
a profiler. So the DEA do they have profilers in
the DEA. I'll ask Stephan Tubbs, thank you for reminding
me about that. I bet he knows somebody in the FBI.
Ryan Edwards, do you know anybody? Do you know any
FBI profilers? We could anybody? You got anybody in your
back pocket? On that, I keep thinking about signs of

(01:42:36):
the Lambs.

Speaker 14 (01:42:36):
I was listening to this conversation and I was like, Clarice,
I yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know anything in the FBI,
but you know, it'd be good to have friends and
I places.

Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
So now I feel like I should find a way. Well,
don't feel bad. Dave Logan doesn't know anybody there. And
Dave Logan doesn't know anybody. It's like that's it's like,
that's like a unicorn.

Speaker 14 (01:42:57):
And honestly, I was gonna say, maybe through like six
degrees of Kevin Bacon conversation, I could say, maybe like
Alfred or Dave knows somebody in the FBI, And then
maybe through that I could.

Speaker 5 (01:43:07):
Say yeah, but no, but Dave Logan, it was like
I got nothing. Yeah, we're it's already over this versus
that I bartended for thirty years. I could be a
criminal profile art. Yes you could.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
Yes, yes, you could.

Speaker 5 (01:43:20):
Those highest tier that people watchers could could get. Yes. Correct.
Now what you do pay for his housing? You are correct.
That is the expensive part of sending your kid to
school overseas. But now it's time for the most exciting
segment all the radio of its guy. Why of the day.
Nobody does it like Ryan Edwards. Nope, very kind nobody,

(01:43:41):
not even me when I used to do it doing it? Yeah,
that's not true, because really I told you the way
I do it is. I think of you and how
excited in your chair. Yeah, I forget that you used
to do it.

Speaker 6 (01:43:51):
It's been a while, I know, well, you know, these
things happen, and then she's out two weeks.

Speaker 5 (01:43:56):
That might be my like my last day. Yeah, when
I would, I will totally do it, and I will
give it my all and I'll never speak again. So
there you go. What is our dad joke of the day. Please,
this one's a little high brow, so bear with me. Okay, highbrow,
We love fact.

Speaker 6 (01:44:10):
Okay, cooifish always travel in groups of four, If attacked, coy, A,
B and C will scatter leaving behind the dcoy.

Speaker 3 (01:44:23):
That's good.

Speaker 5 (01:44:25):
I had no idea where that was going. Is fantastic?
Love that one? Okay? What's her word of the day? Please?
Is an garvage? What ga v a G? Isn't it
that stuff for the daynavage? Gavage? Cavage garvage. I have
no idea what garvage means.

Speaker 6 (01:44:43):
It is a noun that means forced feeding, as by
a flexible tube and a force pump.

Speaker 5 (01:44:49):
Wow, that sounds awful. Yeah, that sounds fun.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:44:52):
In math, what is an integer? Oh gosh, man, math feature?
Come on you guys. Let me just say this. The
inside my inside my That's what I That's what I
did when I read this, because I was like, I know,
I know, I know, I know it. It's in my
head somewhere. It's a fraction. It's like the top part
of the front. I don't know it is. No, you're
actually exactly wrong by mentioning fractions. It is any whole number,

(01:45:16):
meaning a number without a fraction or decimal involved. Integer
integers can be positive or negative and zero counts as
an integer too. Okay, so there you go. All right,
But all the stuff we learned in seventh grade right there,
I should have known that. Yeah, all right, my kids,
I have a seventh and eighth grade right now, so
I'm sure they're they're like, so shamed of you right now.
They're too embarrassed. You're like, oh god, Dad, Okay, here

(01:45:37):
we go. Well make it up to them, because the
category is are we there yet? Every day starts with we.
Doesn't start with we? Oh wait, let's check, because we
in it?

Speaker 6 (01:45:47):
It does start with we. Actually, okay, let's starts with
and hows we in it? Make a rug or a basket?

Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
What is weave? Correct? Cake cut by those who've just
tied it at his wedding?

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:46:02):
If you're under this? What's the weather?

Speaker 6 (01:46:07):
It's the last name of dictionary compiler Noah Webster. Oh my,
As the old saying goes, a chain is only as
strongest as Ryan got Ryan.

Speaker 5 (01:46:19):
What is the weakest link?

Speaker 2 (01:46:22):
That was Ruth?

Speaker 5 (01:46:24):
All of those.

Speaker 7 (01:46:26):
In the headlight.

Speaker 5 (01:46:27):
It's not even did you half a second late? And
walls in the first just the first I have to say,
and I've tried to say this through the show Tim Walls,
when he started that first question, I was like, so,
my goodness, it was I hope it's but he pulled
it together. He pulled it together and didn't he say,
I don't know if you said the last night. He's

(01:46:48):
had it before. He's like, not a great debate guy.
And he proof that they expectations.

Speaker 4 (01:46:53):
It was true.

Speaker 5 (01:46:55):
I profiler. Yes, Dave Logan is the.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
Best friend of mine.

Speaker 5 (01:47:02):
It's a good friend of mine.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
His daughter is in the FBI.

Speaker 5 (01:47:06):
Well, shut up, I need I need that contact in touch.
That would be fantastic, amazing. See, let me just tell
you a little secret life. It's not about knowing everything.
It's about knowing who to ask. That's right, that's it
right there. What's coming up on ko Sports? Oh, it's Wednesday.
We got Rick Lewis joining us.

Speaker 14 (01:47:22):
We'll get into a little bit of Raiders prepperties with
Raiders Week obviously updated.

Speaker 5 (01:47:27):
Raiders w E A K is what you're talking about
Raiders Week, So a little bit of that. All right,
that's all coming up next. We'll be back for a
full show tomorrow. I get to say that until next April.
Keep it right here on KOA