10-23-24 FULL SHOW - Help Kids Learn About Web Safety with Agnes

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, no, it's Mandy Connell and Dona Ka FM.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell, joined,
of course by my right hand man, dressed like a
pumpkin today, Anthony Rodriguez gearing up for the big Halloweens. Now, Anthony,
let me ask you a question before we do the blog,
because we got some very interesting guests we got whether Wednesday,

(00:47):
we got stuff and things today. But I'm going to
ask you this question. How old were you when you
stopped going trick or treating?

Speaker 5 (00:53):
Stop?

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah? No, I know you don't give out candy because
you like to terrorize the kids in your neighborhood.

Speaker 6 (01:01):
I guess technically thirty because we went to Booth the
Zoo the other day and one of the stations I
did get some candy, So technically, idy can me count that?

Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm not talking about knocking on doors, ringing doorbells?

Speaker 5 (01:16):
Probably once I moved.

Speaker 6 (01:18):
Well, no, I don't think we did it in that place,
so I mean probably around adulthood, so like around eighteen probably.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
This is now a big uh. This is a big
to do on one of the social media groups that
I'm in, So we got to talk about this later.
There's a couple of things that I want to talk
about today that I think maybe my view on it
might surprise some people. So let's jump into the blog
and we'll get in some of that right now. Find
the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog

(01:46):
dot com. Look for the headline that says ten twenty
three twenty four help kids learn about web safety with Agnes.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Anyone's listening office.

Speaker 7 (01:57):
Half of American all with ships and clipas, and say
that's going.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
To press.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Today on the blog. My Voter Guide is out weather
Wednesday at twelve thirty, a web series to teach kids
about being online scrolling. Should candidates pay themselves from campaign funds?
Colorado launches a great tool for healthcare. Did an imaginary
gang cut off a guy's finger? Colorado is the seventh
least safe safe state in the country. Let's talk about

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Colorado staying on daylight saving time for a minute. Our
new director of homelessness worked in Seattle. The big money
scam of BLM. We aren't loving it. Yes, you can
take a ballot selfie in Colorado? Has Jason Crowe even
campaigned in his district? Who will you see the most
of on Halloween? Why is the New York Times hiding
the hamas connections of a guest?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Look, the intelligence community pops up to protect thems again.
There's today's word salad for you. Christians are watching porn?
Want to win some Broncos tickets? Parents, just say no
to this new trend for Halloween. SNL goes after influencers.
Rudy is dead, ass broke. Why you don't see Trump
signs in people's yard? Men are so weird at big

(03:11):
endorsement of Harris. Congrats to Jelly Roll and no cutsies,
no buttsies on American airlines. Those are the headlines on
the blog at Mandy's blog dot com. Yep, there you go.
Don't you just serve adult trick or treaters alcohol? Says
this texter. No, I have done that in the past.

(03:32):
I have been the person handing out my friend Karen
overmade jello shots one year, so I was handing out
jello shots. I was the most popular mom in the neighborhood.
Everybody was like, greatest Halloween ever. But no, I'd strongly
recommend against handing anyone you don't know alcohol in any situation.
I'm just saying, you know, it's not like you're at

(03:52):
a concert and somebody passes you a joint and if
you don't smoke, you just keep passing it. The unspoken
uh don't toke at the car concert rule. What do
you do a rod if somebody tries to pass you
a joint? Do you just pass it along to the
next person? Here you go. I'm just gonna you don't
even at touch it. I'm a passer downer. I'm like,
let's just keep that thing going if you want me to,

(04:14):
it's fine with me. I have a video on the
blog today and I usually warn you when it has
bad language, but I forgot. I just realized I forgot
to go back and put the bad language warning. It
is sort of beeped out. But it is an older
lady who took it upon herself to get to know
one of the neighbors. And I want to talk about
this today. I was talking to my brother the other

(04:36):
day about, uh, just the election and everything, and he said,
you know, some of my conservative friends are a little
freaked out because the only yard signs they're seeing are
Harris Wall signs. And I was like, yeah, I'm seeing
some of that too, and he said, but then I
reminded them the only reason there's no Trump Harris signs
is because we don't want to hear their crap. And

(04:58):
I was like, that is a fair point. That is
a fair point. I think that you know, the Republicans
back in the day used to talk about the silent majority.
I think there are so many silent Trump voters who
just don't want to talk about it. And after you
see the video on the blog today from this person's
ring camera of this little lady who everybody probably would

(05:20):
look at her because she's old and go look at
that nice little old lady, she is evil. She is
an awful, awful person. I don't want to say she's evil.
That is too harsh and that's mean, and I don't
I have no way of knowing this. She's evil, but
she's an awful person. As far as I know. She's
never met this neighbor. It's not like she rings the
doorbell and is like, hey, Dena, it's Barb or whatever,

(05:44):
you know, and it's just, I mean, really really ridiculous. Mandy,
your boy Donald worked one shift out of McDonald's. Uh oh,
there's a conspiracy theory out though that. Did you hear this?

Speaker 5 (05:56):
A rod?

Speaker 4 (05:57):
This is going to be the thing that swings the election.
Apparently Donald Trump was not actually a McDonald's employee on
that day. Yeah. Yeah, he didn't really get a paycheck
for his shift at McDonald's. There were no uniforms ordered
for him. He doesn't have a type. Now, what he's

(06:23):
talking about is the fact that in many states, including Colorado,
McDonald's has now recalled all quarter pounder with cheese. They
think it is the onions that contains the E coli
that has made a lot of people very very sick
and actually killed some people. We had an older gentleman
here in Colorado who died after having a quarter pounder
with cheese. Now, some would argue he was just you know,

(06:44):
on the installment plan anyway, being an older guy eating
quarter pounders with cheese, but it actually took his life,
which is terrible and McDonald's has now aggressively recalled everything
that could be possibly put on those sandwiches. But as
Donald Trump worked a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, where there has
not been an E coli outbreak linked to onions processed

(07:06):
in three different plants on the West Coast, I think
that he could be clear of any blame on this.
But he didn't actually work there, which is shocking to people.

Speaker 8 (07:15):
I know.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah, yep, breaking news. Donald Trump was not They paid
McDonald's employee on that day.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
You didn't get a paycheck?

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Nope, he did not. His paycheck will be your vote, Anthony.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh see what I did there?

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Oh there you go, there you go. Conservatives don't want
to deal with the party of racism and violence. We
keep our Trump signs to ourselves. Yep. Mandy, my wife
said no Trump signs because she wants our front window
to stay intact. Mandy. I live in Missouri and there
are way more Trump signs than Harris. Yes, in some

(07:53):
parts of the country, the reverse is true.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
It just is what it is.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
There are more conservative parts of the country, there's more
liberal parts of the country. And I think this is
why this is where some of our issues have arisen
because we have big red bubbles, we have big blue bubbles,
but we don't have a lot of purple bubbles. So
a lot of these people in the red or blue
bubbles truly cannot understand the depths of dislike for the

(08:22):
other team's candidate in some places. Here in Colorado. I
tell people here in Colorado how much Trump is absolutely
despised around the country. And then I tell my conservative
friends in Florida, you can't believe how much Trump is
despised in Colorado, and they don't believe me because everyone

(08:44):
they know is a Trump supporter. They downplay it because
they're not around it. So this is it anyway, So Mandy,
why just the Burger Royal? Other burgers have the onions
on them too. I don't think they're the same onions.
You get the little tiny, square cut onions on the burgers, right,

(09:05):
the little you know what I'm talking about, The little
they're all like little square cut and then the quarter
pounder has a more significant onion on it. And I
think that's the problem. So only losers put up lawn signs. Sorry,
you know what, though, here's the thing, you guys. I remember,
back when I was a kid. When I was a
kid during an election, I lived in a kind of

(09:25):
a yellow dog Democrat place in Florida, where people were
Democrats because their parents had been Democrats. They had, you know,
on and on and on, and there was a healthy
dose of racism in my community when I was very,
very young. I'm happy to say that that has not
the case now, but in my childhood there definitely was
a healthy dose of racism. So we had all these
yellow dog Democrats, but they were all very, very conservative.

(09:47):
But at the same time, you could put a Democratic
sign in your yard, your neighbor could have a Republican
sign in their yard, and you know what, you would
guys would talk about it or maybe not, but you'd
still stand over the back fence and talk to each other,
have a conversation, you know, be friends, barbecue together, that

(10:07):
kind of stuff. It just was different. It was a
completely different situation. So the fact that now having a
yard sign for someone you disagree with gives this woman
license to stand on someone else's porch and call them
terrible names. That is a huge part of the problem.

(10:27):
And I don't necessarily have as much evidence if any
of people on the right doing that, going the other direction.
And I'm sure there's people who have destroyed Harris Walls signs.
I'm sure, absolutely positive, but you don't see it like
you see it coming from the left. And then they
turn around and say, we're doing this because you're violent.

(10:47):
Like that kind of feels like a wife beater blaming
his wife or making him angry. I'm just saying, just
throwing that out there. It would be nice if we
could have a really civil conversation, but I don't think
we have to get way better candidates. We have to
stop allowing the leadership of the two parties to divide
us in this country. We have to stop with the

(11:08):
if you don't agree with me, you're evil, Which is
why I walk back my statement. I should not have
called that woman evil. She's mean, she's awful, but I
can't ascribe, you know, motives to her heart. Mandy Freeze
dried diced onions, not sliced. But aren't the ones on
the quarter pounder different? I have a question. This person says,
why does the quarter pounder have different onions than the

(11:30):
other burgers? Because it's special and it costs more, and
the cheap o depot burgers and cheeseburgers, they don't cost more.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
Does it really have different onions? I'm trying to think
what I believe? So aren't they both like the dice
raw onions?

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Could we call a McDonald's.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
I'm a McDonald's guy, I mean I was.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
I used to love the hell out of McDonald's. And
I'm trying to think.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
I'm looking at pictures of the quarter pounder because I
know the mcdoubele, for example, well, which is my.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
Go to because it's only one piece of cheese, it's
not overkiller on.

Speaker 6 (11:59):
G has the and I always say no onions, but
I know it's like the dice raw onions. And I'm
looking at quarter pounder pictures and it okay, so maybe
not okay, So there's some picture that they are they're
like stringy, Yeah, they are the stringy ones.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
Yeah, which how do you not ask for?

Speaker 6 (12:14):
If they if they do it, you gotta get you
got to get those grilled a little bit then a
raw as hell.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Well, but there, but that's part of the charm of
the quarter pounder. I mean, that's what are you blessed?

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Charm in raw onions?

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Zero a burger?

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yes, no, no, no, no, always Okay, let's just sayest
questions say in and out burger, in and out burger
grilled onions, animal style always. I first of all, don't
think in and out is that good. It's not bad,
but it's.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
Not that good.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
It's the word that is the most misunderstood word in
the English language.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
In and out is overrated. But they're not bad. They're
they're good. They're good.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
They're not legendary like they're not great. They're not bad,
but they're not great. They're just coverage way better fast
food burger, I think. But nonetheless, when you go into
like a restaurant and you order a burger, so you're
getting a really nice burger? Are nice bun nothing squished
together by someone who believes they're underpaid. And what do
you get on the burger? What is the topping that
you are getting on that burger? If you are getting

(13:09):
a naked burger, what's going on that burger? In your world?

Speaker 6 (13:11):
Ketchup mustard cheese only that's it? Oh, lettuce, lettuce, depending
on the restaurant. So McDonald's no, no, because shreds. It's
not the shredded. It's a matter of freshness.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Well, because it's shredded, shredded wilts faster than if you
slap a piece of romain on there.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
So I'm going pickles, cheese onion because you get that
nice crunch. I'm getting lettuce and then mayo mustard and ketchup.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
Oh mayo mayo.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
There's a very very distinct difference on how you get
mayo on a burger. I don't like a dollup of
mayo like on the burger.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
I like your smerit.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
Yeah you schmeri it to moisturize the bun. Correct the
key difference.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
But the pickles, No, it's the grease barrier, right. So
you got the greasy burger, but you put the mayo
on the bun to prevent the buns from getting super greasy.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
I never thought like that.

Speaker 6 (14:00):
I usually just to just to hydrate the bun, if
you will. But pickles on the side. I love pickles.
But pickles on a burgers the way the tast no, no, no,
no no, I don't want to I want to taste
the burger. I don't want to taste some pickles with
a side of burger. That's what pickles do to a burger.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
No, no, I want to taste all of it. I
want a salad and a burger and cheese and bread
and no, no, no, god, no. Okay, we have an
answer on the McDonald's question from a textor who seems authoritative.
Quarter pounder has raw, Okay, Big Mac and the others
have something else for onions, not raw. Well that's not authoritative. Yes,
they're different. Onions rehydrated for the regular burgers, and Big

(14:36):
Macs sliced fresh for the quarter pounder, and that fresh
is what's given people he whole, So they think, yikes,
A burger is not a burger, says this texter without
a big thick slice of raw onion, preferably red onion.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
Grow up, young man, out, get out.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
There's the door, Jason says. Bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon. But
I don't like the and on my tee berg.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
I don't think I do anymore because it takes away
the texture's wrong. Yeah, the texture's wrong. Bacon on the side,
just like pickles. Yeah, they're for But give me grilled
onions all day on any burger.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
Oh ah, we're making people hungry, says this texter.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
Sorry about that.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Sorry, not sorry, Mandy. I literally invited all the Democrats
to come over and see how I became this way.
Wouldn't that be funny? Put up a sign, put up
a table in your yard. You're in the neighborhood where
everybody else has a Harris Wall sign, and you just
pull up a chair and you put a big sign
that says I'm voting for Trump. Ask me why, and
then just invite your neighbors to come have a conversation

(15:38):
that would probably not go well, not go well at all.
I would advise you to watch that video where the
little old lady who should be nice is not nice
at all. Anyway. Uh, my voter guide is out. You
can find it by clicking on the top link of
the blog. Now, should I block the guy who keeps

(15:59):
calling me fat? On the text line Today's Today's Yeah, well,
I guess we know why you're a fat blank? Maybe
you should have tried suing the inventor of the fork.
I mean, here's the thing, Should I or should I?

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Just?

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yeah? I think I will. I think I will, just
because wouldn't it frustrate him terribly to not have any way?
No outlet, none at all? You can you can always
email me Mandy at iHeartMedia dot com and then I'll
send that to the joke folder automatically and that will
give me great joy as well.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
Fat. I don't see that.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
I'm just I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
I don't see that.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
Uh number seven currently? So uh? Or should we just
call call him on the area?

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Run?

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Call him right now?

Speaker 5 (16:46):
I'm literally searching the word fat.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Oh, she didn't spell it out. He said F period
capital F period. But I know what he meant. Now
it's thirteen. I think we should call him on the air,
call him right now, call him because they'll never call me.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
F.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, that's it. Call them right now.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
Doesn't make any sense. How does that? How do you
get fat out of that?

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Well, because you're in FF meaning fat and then the
other Yes, well that's it. Yeah, No, let's call it.
Let's call it. Let's call them.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
I don't want someone to call you fat on air
and then I'll get I just want to know.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
I want to know what this person gets out of it, Like,
does it does it excite them? Does it make them
feel good? I'm curious about the emotional response that person
gets from texting that that information get them on the phone.
I don't want their I don't want if it goes
to voicemail, which I mean at this point, I certainly
hope they they would send you to voicemail, but I'm
sure they won't. I don't want their information to go out.

(17:42):
I'm not trying to, like, you know, out somebody. Yeah,
so we'll do that. That's fun. And then also at
twelve thirty, we're going to talk to Dave Frasier because
we've got weather Wednesday coming up today. And I got
to tell you, I realize that all of the weather
people are like, we should have we should have much

(18:04):
cooler temperatures right now.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
So there's nobody there voicemail. Ah, but they didn't send
me to voicemail, so they know what's up.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah. So weird, so brave, so brave. We're calling to
ask you questions, sir, madam, calling to ask you. Although
women hardly ever call other women.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
Fat, well on the text line, Yeah, Mandy, you weren't
even fat before soda.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, thank you appreciate that. And I'm not looking for compliments.
I'm just letting you know some of the fun stuff
that people think is okay to send to your favorite
talk show hosts out there. And if it's not me.
They're sending it to someone else now.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Also, the worst meat Mandy was a rod dropped on
his head as an infant. He doesn't enjoy prime rib
but likes McDonald's. Something wrong with that picture to you,
texture kind sir or madam. Hell no, prime rib is nasty.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
And my husband would agree with a rod on that
he doesn't like prime rib either. I love prime re.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
It is gross, it is nasty. It is the Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
No, I love it so love it, love it blackened. Anyway,
let's do this. We're gonna take a time out and
then we're gonna come back with weather Wednesday. As I
was saying, all the weather forecasters are like, we should
be so much cooler right now. But does anybody hate
I have seventy five? I don't. I gonna tell you
I'm loving this, Ay, Rod, did you turn your sprinklers
off yet?

Speaker 9 (19:18):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (19:18):
No?

Speaker 5 (19:18):
But we uh insulated the outer section for now.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
We blew ours out this week. It's done. It's done.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Yeah, I probably should stop growing. I don't think I
have to mow it again.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
No, I think we should be done with that. We
used our mower to pick up the leaves. But whatever,
it's fine. All right, let's take a quick time out,
Dave Fraser when we get back with your weather questions,
and we'll find out how much more this glorious weather
we're gonna get right after this, all kids, ladies, and gentlemen,
big announcement. The election is practically over. We can cancel
it because there's no chance Trump is gonna win because

(19:51):
the insane clown Posse's violent Jay has endorsed Kamala Harris
for president. That is your breaking news. We can all
go about our business now and get on with weather Wednesday.
Our favorite chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one, Katievr. Dave Frasier. Hello, Dave,
how are you, my friend?

Speaker 2 (20:11):
I'm doing great.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
How are you doing?

Speaker 4 (20:14):
I am doing just fine. As a matter of fact,
I'm happy to announce we can stop paying attention to
politics because the insane clown Posse has endorsed Kamala Harris,
so obviously the race is over. I don't need to
do anymore that so we can talk about important things
like the weather. Dave. I realize I'm supposed to be
upset or something about it about it being seventy five

(20:37):
degrees today, but I do not hate this. How much
longer of this glorious are we having.

Speaker 8 (20:44):
Several more days? Actually, all the way through Monday of
next week, we're looking to be running above average. And
by the way, I'm in your corner, I'm not upset
the fact that the temperatures are running about ten to
twelve to ten degrees above normal. We're not breaking records,
which all are in the eighties. And it is nice.
It's you know, it's that kind of fall warm. It's

(21:05):
not summer hot, yep. And the evening the evenings are fantastic,
cools off quickly with the earlier setting sun. You got
the overnight lows in the forties. You know, we haven't
had that freeze yet, which we're looking at potentially next
Tuesday night into Wednesday we might be right there at
thirty two degrees for the time this year. So we're
talking an eye on that change coming up and the

(21:27):
potential for maybe another shot of moisture. It's very very
dry here in October, so to be talking about getting
a little moisture, whether it be a rain, rain, snow mixed,
or even a little bit of heavy wet snow in
a couple of spots is not a bad thing.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
No, we did get some good snow in the mountains,
which is always you know, you always want to have
a nice solid start because we're thinking about our snowpack here.
And I guess Wolf Creek is opening this week. They
got a ton of snow down there at wolf Preek Pass,
so they're opening there resort. I believe maybe this weekend.

Speaker 8 (21:58):
Yeah, no, yes, so, oh, yesterday, so.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
They're already open today. That seems a little crazy.

Speaker 8 (22:04):
Well, they got if you've been down to skied Wolf Creek,
it's rugged skiing, it's good skiing. It's three up and down.

Speaker 7 (22:11):
Yeah, it's yeah.

Speaker 8 (22:12):
And so they got twenty seven inches over five days,
twenty two inches in a little over a day, and
that was enough to get them the eighteen inch base
that they need mid mountain to get.

Speaker 7 (22:23):
People up in skiing.

Speaker 8 (22:24):
And some of the if you go on social media,
you'll see some of the guys skiing and folks skiing
down there, and it looks it's pretty good. And then
for the north Central Mountains, places like Copper and Keystone
and a Rapahoe Basin and Loveland got anywhere from five
to ten inches, and so that's a helping hand from
other natures they continue to run their snowguns in hopes
of getting opened soon.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
All Right, I got a question from the text line
for Dave. Have we seen temperatures like this year September
and October in the past pre global warming series, like
fifty years ago? And I think they're kind of asking
how common are these there, the warm September and octobers.

Speaker 8 (23:05):
You know, I hadn't checked the fifty year record, But
the way I tend to look at trends like this is,
are we smashing records left and right? And how old
are those records? And as I just said a few
minutes ago, we have not been breaking records here in September.
Early September. We had some warmer days in the nineties
and we did break.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
A few records.

Speaker 8 (23:25):
But even though we had at the beginning of the
month in October we had temperatures in the eighties, we
weren't breaking records. And while we've been in the seventies
for pro long period, and we'll stay in the seventies
all the way through Monday of next week, we're just
not breaking the records. So I think that should give
you some historic perspective about, Yeah, how warm have we
been compared to where the records are set.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
How how how how are we doing drought wise around
the state. I heard a report last week. Yeah, and
I want to ask this question first before we talk
about how we are one of those states like California.
We're kind of perpetually in a drought on and off cycle,
are we not. I mean we're a high desert climate
for much of the state.

Speaker 8 (24:09):
Yes, we're semi arid climate, which means we are you know,
we depend a lot on our snow to fill our reservoirs.
We depend on you know, a wet spring is certainly
helpful during the growing season. We did get some beneficial
rain early in the season until we hit June, July, August, September, October.
Prior to that, the spring was in pretty good shape

(24:30):
when we were head for the year, and then we
dried out. The drought monitor comes out every Thursday, and
the worst route in the state, and the entire state
is not in drought. As a matter of fact, the
San Juan Mountains southwest Colorado doesn't have any drought. They
they've been doing very well. The worst drout is right
in the foothills of Larimer and Boulder County, just west
of I twenty five and Metro Denver is in there,
but not as deep in the drought as they are,

(24:51):
and we've been struggling to get most year. There's no
question about the problem with the drought monitor now, Mandy
is we're in the kind of end of the season,
so everything is naturally dried out. We just don't look
for that leg up right now. But we're entering the
winter and that can help to crush the drought in
some places.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
Okay, we do have a couple of people on the
text line asking about what are we gonna have for Halloween.
A Rod has been asking this too. He's got a
big party, He's got all kinds of stuff planned. What
are we looking at Halloween?

Speaker 8 (25:22):
Well, A Rod's party over the weekend is great. Any
plans you have through the weekend. If you do have
parties like kay Rod, you're fine. It's going to be
in the seventies, mid seventies Saturday, seventies, upper seventies Sunday.
We are tracking this incoming cold front. It looks to
get us down into the upper fifties and by that
time next Tuesday Wednesday, so you're talking the thirtieth, twenty

(25:42):
ninth and thirtieth of the month, the advertise around sixties,
so it's more of a seasonal correction. Right now. We
think it's just outside the seven day so we can't
see too many specifics, but we think Halloween will be
dry but a little bit cool, So it'll probably be
in the mid fifties during the day and then for
trick or treating our stay between four or five o'clock
till nine o'clock, probably slipping into the low forties towards

(26:05):
the end of that timeframe, maybe the upper thirties, but
it does look to be.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Dry, all right, Dave Fraser at Fox thirty one, I
don't have anything else for it. Oh wait, hang on,
this may be the wrong question to ask. At the
end of the segment, does Dave Fraser believe in climate change?

Speaker 8 (26:24):
We've talked about this time and time again. Yes, the
climate has changed, but there's a bigger question beyond that
that you and I have talked about. It becomes the
question of you know why, driving factor, why exactly? And
that's where you get into the argument and it just
goes down the rabbit hole very very quickly because people
have their own opinions of what, but yes, you can

(26:46):
clearly tell as you look over the historical data and
you look at the weather patterns and stuff, that there
are other driving forces that can change climate. But remember
this climate is cyclical and what the future holds is
yet to be seen.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Exactly. Dave Fraser, you can see him on Fox thirty one.
We will talk to again next week after a few
more days of this glorious weather. You can just keep
it here as long as you want.

Speaker 8 (27:08):
Yeah, we'll get you an updated it times out perfectly
next Wednesday. We'll be sitting right on top of that
forecast for Halloween.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Excellent, that's say Fraser, Dave, I appreciate you. We'll talk
to you next week. Yep, all right, where do we
get back? We are going to note a couple of anniversaries.
One anniversary that for the first time is seeing justice
on the anniversary of this day. The second anniversary of

(27:35):
something so I don't know, kind of funny in hindsight
that I can't wait to share it with you. We're
gonna do those on the other side of this break.
One the anniversary of a news story from just last October. Yes,
this from NBC News October twenty sixth, twenty twenty three.
Let me just read some of this news story to you.

(27:58):
President Joe Biden announced in April that he's running for reelection.
His campaign and its fundraising entities have a combined ninety
one million in the bank, and he's hired key political
staffers to help helm his twenty twenty four re election campaign.
And then I'm gonna skip ahead for just a moment,
just a moment to this part. Senator Ted Cruz from

(28:20):
Texas said on his podcast last month, So here's the
scenario that I think is probably the most likely and
most dangerous. In August of twenty twenty four, the Democrat
Kingmakers jettison Joe Biden and parachute in Michelle Obama. I
view this as a very serious danger. And then I'm
skipping ahead again. The idea, centered largely on the thought

(28:42):
that Biden is too old and not sharp enough mentally,
is that there's a secret plan to replace Biden due
to his health or other reasons, by an amopous Illuminati
type forces within the Democratic Party. It is not a
mainstream thought within the Republican Party that it has maintained
a persistent foothold among a relevant chunk of the GOP base,

(29:03):
taking their cues from some party officials who continue to
toy with the idea that from a year ago. Let's
just put that as another conspiracy theory they came true,
not the part about Michelle Obama. Although this one, you guys,
listen to this, Listen to this, Listen to this. This
from Tim Scott a year ago. I feel like they're

(29:24):
grooming someone and we all know it's not Kamala. So
I think the Democrats have a backup plan because every
time I listen to the current president speak, I'm like,
is this getting harder? Now? What if just throw let
me throw this out here. What if? What if Joe
Biden read this article too? What if he knew that

(29:46):
they weren't grooming Kamala Harris and that is why he
immediately came out and endorsed Kamala Harris as his successor.
I mean, I have long thought Joe Biden did that
to screw the people who stabbed him in the back.
I think that was straight out of House of Cards, like,
oh yeah, you're gonna push me out, Okay, I'm gonna
f you over to I believe that, and reading this

(30:07):
just reminded me of how much I believe it so hah.
Now our second anniversary notation are something we are noting
the anniversary of this time not nearly as entertaining. This
is the forty first anniversary of the Bayroot truck bombing
that killed more than three hundred people at the American

(30:29):
embassy and the US Marine sparracks in Beirut. Obviously, the
Beyrout truck bombing would have indicated where it happened. But
this is the first year that the mastermind behind this
is dead. His name was Ibraha Makiel. He was the
Hesbala operations commander, and he was killed in September in

(30:52):
an Israeli strike against him in Lebanon, in their systematic
dismantling of all of the proxy organizations that Iran has
been backing to foment violence in the Middle East. They
took him out over a month ago. So for the
first time ever, the mastermind of that bombing that killed

(31:13):
so many people and injured so many more is dead.
He's on the right side of the dirt finally, And
you know why he's on the right side of the dirt,
because Israel stopped listening to the United States of America
and started fighting like their very existence depended on it. Now,
there was a story today. I just saw it a
minute ago on Twitter. So I don't have the guy's

(31:35):
name in front of me, but you know, they just
took out the leader of Hesbola, right, they took out
the leader of Hesba Hesbela. Hang on, let me s
I can pull this up real quick. So they take
out the leader of Hesbala and Azraala, and you know,
now they got to get new leadership in there. You
got to get new leadership in So now they have

(31:55):
also taken out the leadership of Hamas. Let me let
me make sure I'm trying to find this guy's name.
I'm talking to you guys, so bear with me. They
got a new guy in Hamas. He took over and
Israel took him out. He's dead. And at this point,
I just don't know if they're going to be able
to get anyone to apply for that job. Cause if

(32:16):
you're like, okay, can you imagine going in? You see
this job advertised like complete power over everything. Everyone will
kneel to your every wish, and you're like, yes, that's
what I want. Sign me up. So you fill out
an application and you send it in and then you
go in. They're like, oh my god, you're great, come
on in for an interview. You go in for an
interview and you're like, so tell me about this complete power.

(32:37):
They're like, oh yeah. You get to make all of
the decisions about what happens in this entire section of
the country. You get to make every choice. You get
to decide who lives and dies. You get to decide
who gets medicine and who doesn't. You get to decide
who has food and who doesn't. You get to decide
all that. And you're like, I'm kind of mad with power.
It could be down with that. And then we're like,
oh yeah, but see, unfortunately, there's a really good chance

(32:59):
that you're gonna get killed, because that seems to be
what keeps happening to people who step up to lead
these organizations. So that's inconvenient at a bare minimum, and
it's getting harder and harder to hire people to lead

(33:19):
these terrorist organizations, all because Israel finally decided to stop
listening to the United States. Boom, go Israel, go give
some little prayers for the families of all of those
people that were lost forty one years ago, but know
that finally, the man who did it can never ever

(33:40):
ever ever do it again because he is DRT. We
will be right back after this with an interesting young
woman who has created a web series designed to help parents, tweens,
and I would dare say teenagers navigate the web. Agnes
joins us, next, it is a great series. Just we'll
do that right after this.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
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Speaker 4 (34:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show
and joining me. Now, I'm very excited because I feel
like I'm on the leading edge of something that's going
to be really big. Okay, and what's going to be
really big is a new web series by a young
woman named and Agnes. I'm probably going to destroy your name,
so just bear with me, Agnes Gomez Koizumi, that's right,

(34:49):
Oh yeah, okay, perfect. And it's a web series designed
to help parents, and she says tweens, but I think
it could be late elementary through early high school. I
think the information that she's putting together is really outstanding,
and it's a web series about social media designed for kids. Now, Agnes,

(35:11):
first off, welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (35:14):
Thank you so much for having me, Amandy. I'm really
excited to be here.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
Well, your new web series is called Social Smarts, and
I want you to tell people a little bit about
your background and kind of give them a little reason
of why you are doing this and why you're an expert.

Speaker 7 (35:27):
So I've spent a number of years working for the
top social media companies in the world, including launching international
expansion for Tender and TikTok as well. So at the
very early stages, building out trusted in safety, communications education
and working with external people including governments, and educating parents

(35:48):
about the different tips and safety measures that exist to
keep you safe and what the platforms had to offer
in terms of best practices. So having that insider note
really made me look at social media and what's happening,
especially with young people right now, and being able to
have that insider perspective. And I have a ten year

(36:10):
old nephew and he is part of that first generation
that is growing up in a fully digital world. So
he started he got his first iPad I think when
he was five, maybe, but I've seen him develop and
grow through time and how social media is impacting him
what he's doing. But also having that front row seat,
I see the questions that he's asking and how he's

(36:33):
thinking about social media, And because I have this unique perspective,
I spend a lot of time talking with him about
not just what you should and shouldn't do or how
social media works, but why. And I think that that's
been the biggest thing for me, is seeing him be
able to look at social media and what he's doing
and have the tools to think about it critically because

(36:54):
this is a different world than what I grew up in.
But teaching him these things now will set him up
for the rest of his life because it's not going
to change. It's going to be part of his life forever.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
You know, your story about doing this for your nephew
is a little bit reminiscent of how con Academy got started.
The math website that has saved my bacon as a
parent multiple times. That's my daughter gets into more advanced math.
But I have to commend to you for putting together videos,
and you've got three out so far. You're putting together videos.
You're not talking down to kids. You're not trying to

(37:25):
make it like a cartoon, you're not trying to make
it overly kid, I can't explain it. You're talking to
them like they understand. And I think that's a big
difference than some of the other stuff that's out trying
to teach kids about social safety. I mean, that's really
what we're talking about here, So well done on that.

(37:46):
How do you decide what you're going to do each
episode on?

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Well?

Speaker 7 (37:51):
So, I have three episodes out already. As you mentioned,
the first one is really like I think about it logistically.
So the first thing is is that kids want to
know why can't they have their own social media accounts?
So that's the first episode to talk about the laws
behind that. But to your point about why I'm I'm talking,
I'm talking to kids the way that I would talk
to my own nephew and recognizing that he's not like
kids don't want to be talked down to. They want

(38:14):
to have the tool so that they can understand. So
what I'm trying to do with him is talk to
him the same way that I would talk to, say,
another person's parents. And I have a lot of friends
that ask me if their kids could come and listen
in while I talk to my nephew. But the reason
that it's geared towards, you know, like real information, is
because kids want to know, like you can't sugarcup things.

(38:36):
You want to give them the real truth and the why.
And so that's what I do for him, But I
intend the intent is to have parents listen with their
kids too, so that they can get that information and
they feel like it's not just the wild West out there,
it's something that they understand. And then after each episode,
they're ten minute episodes because there's more to discuss, and
then parents can hopefully spend some time with their kids

(38:57):
to talk about the material that's being Isn't it that
the first episode was about why thirteen is the magic number?
The second one was about dangerous challenges? And I think
that that's because we've seen a lot of stuff happening
with kids and how they're really influenced to do these
different things because they're getting really popular. And what can
you do, how do you spot it? How can you

(39:19):
actually you know, prevent yourself from doing that, and what
the motivation is, like why do people do dangerous challenges
at all. And then the next episode that I just
released yesterday was about finding the truth online about misinformation
because there's so much stuff out there, and when I
think about what you're seeing right now, especially within news

(39:40):
cycles and social media. At one time, like when I
was growing up, there was you know, a news cycle
that happened, and you would look at that as being
the truth. But now there are so many sources. How
do you actually identify what's real what's fake, and how
do you get those skills so that you can actually
look at things more critically. The next episode that I'm
releasing next week is about mental health, because I think

(40:03):
that that's also something, especially with what we've seen recently
with these different lawsuits that have come out and the
ages that have placed all these lawsuits, you know, to
social media companies about how the effects of social media
are detrimental to young people's mental health. So I really
I'm thinking about those things, and as the news cycle

(40:24):
comes out, or as I'm getting questions from different people
as well, I have.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
To ask Agnes, how old are you? And there's a
specific reason I'm asking you this, not just because you
look so incredibly youthful which you do. But how what
generation are you?

Speaker 7 (40:38):
So I'm a gen X, so I go in the seventies.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Okay, great, so you because I will tell you. I
watched the first episode about why you have to be thirteen.
I didn't know any of that straight up. I was like,
oh my gosh, I had no clue. And then I thought,
thank god, I'm not watching this with my daughter because
I would have lost all credibility at that moment. So
you would pay parents to watch this with their kids.
But if you're a parent of a certain age, because

(41:04):
this was all kind of thrust upon us, we're not
digital natives, right, this is not our normal state of being.
And I'm going to be perfectly honest. I just had
one of those moments with my fifteen year old daughter
where I handed her my phone and I said, make
Snapchat stop sending me things like make it stop. I
don't know how, and I'm not going to learn. Because

(41:24):
she's like, well, let me teach you. I go no,
I don't want to learn anything else about a social
media platform. I'm done. I'm finished. I want no more.
And she was like, okay, I'll fix it, and she did.
But there's a lot of information in these videos that
I need, not just my kids, because you really do
a deep dive on some stuff that I, frankly, as

(41:46):
an end user, I never even thought about it until
I watch these videos. So they're just I highly recommend.
Even if you don't have kids and you're using the Internet,
like you should know some of the things that Agnes
is doing. And I really would love I can't wait
to see your ten minute version on how social media
companies gather our data because I saw the social dilemma.

(42:08):
I made my daughter watch it with me, but that
was almost too at the time we made or watch it.
I think it was a little too much over her head,
just a tiny bit. So i'd love to see you
just kind of like talk about how much data is
being gathered and how it's being used against us.

Speaker 7 (42:24):
Because it is you know, yeah, that's an episode I'm
planning for the future, but we can talk about that briefly,
because the truth is is that data is a digital currency,
and social media is the content that people put out there.
It's designed to get views, but those views and I
talk about this in the mental health episode as well,
and then I have another episode of addiction. But all

(42:46):
of those things are designed to keep you online, so
it's part of it.

Speaker 8 (42:49):
It's like the data that then the.

Speaker 7 (42:51):
Longer that you're online, the more data that can be
captured that can talk about your viewing habits, and then
from there you can sell advertising, and it's all about advertising.
So it's a really interesting feedback loop. But the thing
that young people don't understand is that that data follows
you and what you're making choices with right now that
will impact, like very long down the road, how you're

(43:16):
being targeted by different ads, not just online but also
in real life because all of these things, the ultimate
goal of digital online is like how do you get irl? Right?
How do you get in real life? And that comes
into a lot of different ways, whether it's like mail,
whether it's like phone calls, but also whether it's like
you know, different events or other things. And so ultimately,

(43:37):
when you think about it, you're looking at social media
as being something that's fun and you know, a nice
distraction maybe or just something that's like fun to do,
but there's like a whole other system that's in place
that's really like monetizing and the data becomes critical to that.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
But yes, that for me is huge I mean I
always tell my daughter, like, whatever's free, you are the product.
If you have a free app, you are the product.
So just remember that they are now selling you in
some way, shape or form. I sat in on a
marketing sort of future of marketing meeting where there were
discussions about how rapidly we would get to a point

(44:18):
where your metadata was being gathered at such a way
that when you walked down a street, a billboard would
change to be specific to you. And so you would
have billboard space and the doorway of a building that
you were walking into, and as you walked by there
would be an ad for your favorite coffee brand or
your favorite or whatever. It's going to become that specific

(44:39):
and that dial down. So all of these people that
are saying, oh, I don't care, I'm so uninteresting, you
have no idea what is coming down the pike in
terms of what they are going to be able to
use to market to you in ways you don't even realize.
Is this highly targeted. It's fascinating. I mean, I work
in advertising. This is what public radio. I mean, this
is what commercial radio does.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
Right.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
I want my advertise, my people to go to my
advertisers and buy things, so I can't knock it. It's
just amazing how specific it is getting.

Speaker 7 (45:09):
And also I think the social media and I talk
about this and then the episode that I just released
about truth detectives and how to spot you know, something
that's real or fake online. There's a lot of psychology
that goes into repetition and how how your brain actually
processes information that you see. And unlike radio, social media,
especially short form, it's gathering information at a super fast

(45:32):
rate because the shorter the video, the more you're able
to get iterations of you know, your viewing habits, and
so when you continue to see things, it affects how
you actually perceive it, And so it affects things like,
you know, are you going to be more likely to
purchase something? But also you know, are you more likely
to believe that something's true afterwards after seeing it so

(45:55):
many times? And we talk about this in PR but
also back in the days when I used to work
in museum there's a lot of psychology in terms of
how you present information that because social media is user generated,
people are that are producing it aren't necessarily thinking it
that the algorithm in the background is like putting all
these things together and it's affecting or taking advantage of

(46:16):
how your brain psychology already works.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
That is amazing and incredibly frightening at the same time.
The web series is called Social Smarts with Agnes, and
it's very, very good, and I'd love for people in
this listening audience. I don't know, I'm sure you know, Agnes,
that many schools, when the kids come in in the morning,
they'll show a video or something to kind of keep
everybody entertained. This to me would be the perfect kind

(46:41):
of videos to work into those scenes where kids could
actually learn something in a way that's very interesting. And Agnes,
obviously you guys are listening, she's very relatable and comes
across really really well. So I'd love for my listeners
to help spread the word about Social Smarts because I
think it has real value because, as you said, kids
that are getting and first of all, I made my

(47:04):
daughter wait until she was fourteen before she was allowed
to get any social media at all. And that was
after watching the Social Dilemma and after doing all this stuff.
And she will tell you like she understands. She'll say
something like I don't know what I clicked, but my
algorithm is all screwed up, you know. So she's aware
of it, but she still doesn't understand the magnitude. So

(47:24):
I'm gonna make her watch Social Smarts as well, even
though she's fifteen. But it's only ten minutes, so it'll
be fine. But uh, Agnes, I wish you much success
going forward, and I think you're gonna have it. I
just think it's a great idea whose time has come.
And thank you so much for making time for us today.

Speaker 7 (47:40):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
All right. That is Agnes Gomez ko Zumi. The website
or the web series is Social Smarts on YouTube. Thank you, Agnes.
And uh yeah, great, great little series. And I did
you guys. I sat there and watch these and I
literally was like, uh, I didn't know any of it.

(48:02):
I knew none of it. I'm such a I'm such
a computer moron. I just I keep thinking, you know,
I've used computers now for like thirty years. You think
I would get better at it. But I the more
they make things supposedly intuitive, like every time there's an update,
and it's like, oh, this is so much more intuitive
than it was before. Intuitive to whom I think there

(48:25):
should be two kinds of intuitive. There should be gen
X intuitive and other people intuitive. I can't be and
ay Rod, here's the news slash bud. It's gonna happen
to you at some point in your life. You're gonna
hand your kid your phone and say, make that app
stop talking to me, and I'm not learning anything else.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
Oh many, Yeah, you're already right. About ninety eight percent
of people my age. I make it a hobby.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
I make it my task to stay up to date
with all the latest technology each and every day, so
I will always be hip.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
With the young'ins. Don't you fret?

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Yeah, okay, okay, I think let me try this to
my calendar for thirty years from now to give an
a call and find out how he still is.

Speaker 6 (49:05):
Because I make a concerted effort to always be up
to day, It's part of my job.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
So technically I understand, I understand, But eventually, no, you
are going to hear me out, hear me out, this
is what this is what's going to happen, and then
people can go to the text line and decide whether
I am right or you are right. Here's what's going
to happen. You are eventually going to get a more important,
higher level job that is going to take you out

(49:29):
of the day to day intense tech stuff that you
do now. And at that point tech will start to
get away from you. Now in your personal life, I
could see you still engaging in some stuff, but trust me,
you'll hit a level where you're just like, I'm good.
I don't need to learn anything else after this. I'm fine.
I don't need that new skill.

Speaker 6 (49:47):
It's a solid happens, solid line of thinking. But I
love on a day to day basis to like make
it my mission to keep up with the trends.

Speaker 5 (49:55):
So I am the outlier. Normally you would be you're
not for your You're really not.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
But when you get to fifty five, talk to me, then, pal,
I will this Texter thirty years. Ha, I give them
ten to fifteen. Because what you don't know, what you
do not know, is what kids will do to all
of that, all of whatever you think you are, whatever
you have time for, whatever you love, kids will come
along and you're like, a crap, I can't do that anymore.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
I don't have those that.

Speaker 4 (50:24):
Gotta go to soccer, gotta go to football, gotta go
to ice skating, gotta go to whatever. Gotta go to
it all.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
I will never be a part of the Olds. You
leave me alone.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
You know what spoken? I remember when I was young.
I was when I was your age, ay Rod, and
I would say things like I just don't understand why
women have plastics. There's your I don't get it, I
will say. Now, fifty five year old me is.

Speaker 5 (50:47):
Like, hey, shut up, Well, I will say.

Speaker 6 (50:48):
Dragon and I had a moment yesterday and when we
were talking about Scars on The Ross Minsky Show, and
so naturally Dragon bump backed with Scars by Papa Road.

Speaker 5 (50:57):
You know, Zack Segers hits us with I never heard
that song. I'm like, what what?

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (51:05):
Is this what the olds feel like?

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (51:07):
What? Oh?

Speaker 5 (51:09):
I mean he's been twenty so, I mean it kind
of makes sense. But man, that did not feel good
for me.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
It was the first time I used the phrase Mushia
Marsha Mussia at an intern and they were like, I
don't know what that is.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
And I was like, what wait?

Speaker 1 (51:22):
What?

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Yeah, how do you not know that?

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Brady Budge, what's wrong with you?

Speaker 5 (51:27):
Goes downhill?

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (51:28):
Everybody on the text line, Mandy, I agree with you, Oh,
this person said, we boomers on as well, die who
needs us? Well, nobody said anything bad about the boomers nikes. Jeez, Louise,
somebody's having a bad day. Some of my favorite people,
including my husband, are boomers. He's in the last year
of the boomers, but he was fully raised gen X
so my grandfather. I'm in and I'm a millennial barely Mandy.

(51:51):
I never want to be that old person that says
they can't learn something new. It's not the ability to learn,
it is desired. No, you misunderstand me. Text he that's
got a good point. Wait, wait, you misunderstand me. I
love learning certain new things certain but I don't want
to learn how to use Snapchat. I don't care. Makes
no difference to me. The only reason I have the
stupid app is that my daughter uses it to send

(52:12):
me stuff sometimes. That's it. I hate it. I have
no desire to learn how to do any of it.
So no, I don't want to learn Snapchat. I would
learn other things that I would enjoy more, you know,
like the fine art of Japanese paper folding.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
You don't know.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
I could be very good at orgami. No idea. That's
all my list of things to do when I retire
Mandy A. Rod sounds like one of those youngsters that
says I will never be like those old farts. Fast
forward and you are one.

Speaker 5 (52:38):
Yep, ninety eight percent of people absolutely will be.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
I will not.

Speaker 5 (52:43):
It is my job, it will remain my job. It
is a hobby of mine. Will leave me alone. Yeah, texture, Yeah,
look at you.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
Yeah, there you go to this texture gravity. Not being
too kind to the twins, Mandy Gross, I don't think
I talked about my boobs or any part of them
or where they are a viral cale. Thanks for assuming
it's uh, it's whatever you want it to be, sir.
Those two I should get those two guys together and
then they could team up and then they could work
on it. They could go meet at a bar and

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then they could try over a beer to try and
figure out how to be as insulting as possible. That
would be super comcial we call in.

Speaker 5 (53:18):
I don't think they need help.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
But then then then they need to have a friend, though.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
We don't need to.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
Well, maybe they would be happier with their lives if
they had a friend.

Speaker 7 (53:31):
Okay, I want to talk.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
About serious stuff. I got a bunch of stuff on
the blog today. First of all I want to talk
about the fact my voter guide is at the top
of the blog at mandy'sblog dot com and you need
to go and check it out. Now, I want to
talk about one specific issue in the voter guide where
I am a yes, but I I want to present
the other side of the no because I've gotten so

(53:54):
many emails about this particular measure that I want to
give a fear shaked this because I've gotten some very
very well written, passionate emails about this from people in
the veterinary field right now. Measure one twenty nine would
establish a veterinary professional associate position. They would have at
least a master's degree, and it is my understanding that

(54:16):
they could handle a lot of VET services short of surgery,
and it would have free up actual vets for the
big and significant stuff. And I'm all for this, So
I was like, yes, I'm a solid yes on this.
Here's the thing, this particular measure does not do any
of the rule making around this position. So whatever board

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oversees veterinarians in Colorado would be able to put the
meat on this and with the input of veterinarians, you
could possibly have a highly educated person who could come
in and do a lot of heavy lifting to a
certain point as established by a veterinary board, taking a
lot of the weight off of a veterinarian, allowing them
to expand their clinics, serve more customers, et cetera. Now

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I am on the opposite side of this from every
veterinary organization that I can see in Colorado. Many vets
have emailed me about this and said, look, we don't
want people who do not have enough schooling. They didn't
go to veterinary school, they haven't gone all the way
through the process, and we feel that they could possibly
give substandard care. It's a valid argument, it really is. However,

(55:25):
when people view something as competition rather than as an
opportunity to grow what they're doing, they tend to be
reflexively a no. And when you look at the role
making that would go around this, if the veterinary associations
got together, put their heads together, worked with the board,
and created a really nice framework for this position, it

(55:47):
could be such a boom to their industry, especially if
there was a rule that these veterinary associates have to
practice under a fully licensed veterinarian right. It's kind of
like a nurse practitioner. This is the way I look
at it. I prefer to see my nurse practitioners because
they don't just shove drugs down your throat. I don't
think they get the huge pharmacology component the medical school

(56:08):
students get. So I see a nurse practitioner all the
time for my healthcare and it works out really well.
But they cannot practice here without being under another doctor,
so or at least they used to, not to be
able to do it anyway. But I wanted to give
you the other side. The Veterinary Association is fully against
this and would love for you to vote no. But
I am still a yes for the reasons that I
just gave. I think that this could be a boon

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to veterinarians in Colorado, and that is why I'm a yes.
When we get back, I've got a question should candidates
be able to pay themselves out of campaign funds? And
an answer that may surprise you. We'll do that next.
The story is about the fourth Congressional District Democratic candidate
Tricia Calvaresi, and The Colorado Sun reports that she has

(56:53):
been paying herself a salary from her campaign funds and
yesse Paul writes the story. But there's that. Let me
try this again. Let me just start over. The headline
is Tricia calvaretcy Lauren Bobert's Democratic opponent, has been paying
herself a salary from her campaign. The subheadline is there's

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nothing illegal about the payments, but it's unusual for candidates
to pay themselves or their loved ones a salary because
of the criticism it can draw. Now, she is not
paying herself like the kind of money that Dave Williams
is paying himself. She paid herself a little over three
thousand dollars in July and then began taking a bi
weekly salary, so every two weeks of about twenty six

(57:38):
hundred roughly from her campaign. That's a typical paycheck for
someone who earned sixty three five hundred dollars a year.
So she is not gouging her campaign. It is not illegal.
And I got to tell you, I don't really have
a problem with this. Now I start to have a
problem when candidates put all their family members on the

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payroll for whatever reason. I really have an issue with that,
where like, oh, my cousin's doing security, my ex husband's
going to plan some events, you know this is gonna happen,
This is gonna that's when it goes a little bit
too far. But I am not opposed to candidates paying
themselves out of campaign funds under one condition, and that

(58:20):
is you disclose to donors immediately that you are planning
on doing this. And here's why I'm not against it.
Running for office is a full time job. It really is,
especially when you're running in a district as large as
the fourth Congressional district. And I don't want a system
that prevents people who don't have means from being able

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to run for office. I want middle class people to
be able to run for office, and I think that
if this is a way to make that happen, then,
by gosh, by golly, why not. I know that people
have been criticized in the past, and I may have
been critical of this in past, But the more that
I know about how much a campaign consumes, and it

(59:07):
consumes so much, I mean, so much to do it
right and to do it well. It is a full
time job. And I'm wondering what you guys think now
before you immediately crack back like, of course, of course,
she's you know, a Democrat or whatever. I really want
you to think about this, because in my mind, I'm
thinking about a person who maybe is has a job

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where look at a couple. Okay, you got a couple.
You got a guy, maybe he owns a small business,
and you've got a wife. Maybe she's a teacher or
has some kind of you know, other middle class job,
and she decides that she wants to run for office. Well,
the husband may not bring in enough to kind of
keep things going, and so why shouldn't she be able

(59:50):
to take a salary if she has to take time
off work to run for office. By the way, Tricia Calvarecy,
if she was able to win this, it would be
an absolute I mean it would be earth shattering because
the fourth Congressional district is very reliably Republican and Lauren

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Bobert is the nominee, and I don't see a lot
of Republicans, enough Republicans moving their vote to Tricia Calvaresey
to have her win in that race. But she also
has collected an absolute gobsmacking amount of money, I mean

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a gobsmacking amount of money, and so it's not like
her campaign can't afford it. It's not like the Republican
Party that is bringing in no money but still paying
a ton of money to the consulting firm run by
Dave Williams or something. I don't even know now. To
be clear, if you are the if you are the incumbent,

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you cannot do this. It's illegal to pay yourself out
of campaign funds. So Lauren Bobert could not do this.
She has to you know, she can't doesn't have this option.
Now here's another something that you might want to know.
Republican Gabe Evans is also paying himself a salary. He's
paying himself sixteen hundred and fifty bucks a month. Hardly

(01:01:17):
something to freak out about. But again, Gabe Evans is
not a guy who comes from a ton of money.
So yeah, I just wonder if five six six nine
oh is the text line five sixty six nine oh.
So there you go, five six six nine oh. I'd
love to know if it's okay with you, Devil's Advocate.

(01:01:38):
Wouldn't paying yourself out of campaign funds encourage people to
run sham campaigns just so they can make money, You know,
there's the possibility of that. But here's the thing. Ask
any candidate it is really hard to get people to
give you money, really really really hard. When you're running
a political campaign, that is the thing you spend the month,

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this amount of time doing is fundraising, and you immediately
be in to find out that people don't like to
write checks necessarily. It's a hard thing to run for office,
So to do it just as grift. Uh yeah, I
don't that's a that's an inefficient grift. I guess would be.
I mean you'd be There's so many other ways to
separate people from their money than a political campaign. Trust me, Uh,

(01:02:24):
this asks could one run for office in perpetuity? Not
a bad gig. See my earlier comment about how hard
it is to get people to give you money. It
is very, very difficult. I don't know. I think it's okay,
I'm I think I guess you would have to ask
how do you set that limit? How do you decide
how much you're going to pay yourself? And if you

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are someone running for a town council seat and your
entire campaign is going to bring in eighty thousand dollars,
are you going to pay yourself? I don't know if
that's a good look. And I do think, as I said,
letting people know that this is what you're doing doing
is incredibly, incredibly important. All Right, we're gonna take a
quick time out here, and I got so much stuff

(01:03:08):
an imaginary gang might have cut off a guy's finger.
More on that, But what I really want to talk
about for just a minute, can we talk about what
Colorado's staying on daylight saving time would actually look like.
We're gonna do that next. This question. After the election
is over, does she get to keep all the money
that's left in her campaign account? That would be a
good payday. Well, the Federal Elections Commission does not allow

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a candidate to like write a check to themselves unless
they have loaned money to their campaign. They are allowed
to pay themselves back. That money could be dispersed a
multitude of ways. They could keep it in an account
if they want a future run, if they are done
with politics and are done running, then they can donate
it to charity. They can donate it to a pack.

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They can donate it to a political party or another candidate.
But you know, like some candidates will donate to their
own super pack that they create, so they're basically paying
themselves out of the donation. You know, and the FEC
doesn't really do anything. I mean they really don't, so yeah,

(01:04:12):
they It's one of those. Now, can we talk about
something really, really really important for a second. It's about
to be that time on the first Sunday of November
when we get our hour that the government stole from
us in the spring back as clocks fall back for
an hour and we go to standard time. Now, two

(01:04:35):
years ago, Colorado passed legislation to stay on daylight saving
time permanently. Federal law has not allowed us to do that,
so we're waiting for the federal government to decide something.
I don't know if the clock shift. This from our
friends at Fox thirty one. If the clock shift doesn't
necessarily cut down on sunlight, it would have an impact

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on day to day life. If Colorado switched to day
saving time permanently, the time would only matter in the winter.
According to time and date, when the clocks shift back
on November third, twenty twenty four, the sun will rise
at seven thirty one am and set just before five pm. However,
if Denver permanently stayed on daylight saving time, the sun

(01:05:19):
would continue to rise after seven thirty am and set
just before six pm. Hey, Rod, which would you rather
have dark in the morning or a little more light
in the afternoon, or a little more light in the
morning and dark in the afternoon.

Speaker 6 (01:05:36):
I rather have it be dark in the afternoon because
it feels like the days are nice and long, whereas
like the sun's down out bedtime immediately.

Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
Wait, so you'd rather have more light in the afternoon.

Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
No, well, as long as it gets darker early. I
actually do kind of like that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:53):
Okay, so you would be you want to go back,
you want the sun to set before five pm?

Speaker 5 (01:05:58):
Unsome before five. I gotta find this sweet.

Speaker 4 (01:06:01):
I mean, we can't make the day any longer, right,
I mean, so, so we're either in the middle, We're
either going wait, we're either sun rises at six thirty
one am setting just before five pm, or sun rising
after seven thirty am and setting just before six pm.
Ok Okay, that's what I thought you just were saying.

(01:06:24):
That didn't make any sense, Now it does. Yeah, So yeah, Mandy,
the semi annual cavetching sessions about daylight saving time make
my eyes glaze over. As someone who has to get
to work early in the am, I'm all in a
favor of switching it up. Alternatively, let's move it thirty
minutes and then keep that year round. Each camp gets

(01:06:45):
a little of what they want, Okay, King Solomon splitting
the baby on that. Do you know that the Iranians
their clock is oriented a half hour off of ours
because they you know, if you control the time, you
control everything. Did you know that? Fun fact? Fun fact?
What would you, guys rather do Do you want sun

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in the morning or sun in the afternoon. Do you
want daylight Saving time that is sun in the morning
or do you want standard time that is sun in
the afternoon? Mandy, People with seasonal depression dread turning clocks back.
And this is why I keep bitching about this. To
be perfectly frank, I've had sleep issues my entire life.

(01:07:27):
I've been a chronic insomniac diagnosed ephen since I was
a child. And this two times a year. This messes
me up for like a month. And I realize that
those of you who are blessed, and you are blessed,
if you're one of those, I just lay my head
down on the pillow and go to sleep. People, I
have such envy, Oh lord, I am jealous of you.

(01:07:50):
I am not that person, and I have tried everything,
so it's not just me complaining because I don't want
to it. Trust me. We already know more people have
heart attacks the monday after spring forward, more people get
an auto accident. It's the Monday after spring forward. The
week after spring forward, there is more extra excess mortality
than any other single week in the year. It's time.

(01:08:13):
It's time, Mandy, thanks for ruining my day. Why don't
they move a half hour and be done with it?
Sun in the afternoon says this texture on the Common
Spirit Health text line. Hey, Mandy, what are the advantages
to having light later in the afternoon? From a coaches perspective?
For little kids land and a little bit older children,
is the additional late made practice made so much easier? David?

(01:08:36):
I agree. I want kids to have time to play
outside after school. Son in the afternoon, afternoon son in
the PM standard Please, Mandy. I would perform more in
the afternoon for this reason. It means I can sleep
in a little bit later before I have to go
deer hunting. I like your attitude, sir Madam.

Speaker 7 (01:08:54):
I like it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
I like it a lot longer afternoons says this text
is a photographer. I need it for work. My business
dies November three. Oh that's terrible, man. If we stick
to standard time, the sun will come up at four
am in the summer. To think about that, that's a problem.

(01:09:17):
Permanent standard time is better for your health, says this texter. Yeah,
I've said before, fall back thirty minutes and then leave
the clock alone. I mean that would be weird, though,
wouldn't it Wouldn't it just be strange to all of
a sudden go from twelve thirty to one. I don't
know if I could wrap my head around that. I
just don't. I don't know, Mandy, stay on daylight saving time.

(01:09:39):
When I was in college, daylight saving time meant uh oh,
that updated time meant more homework. No more homework got done.
Everyone schoolwork suffered. I hated it. Stay on daylight saving time.
I want it darker earlier. When it's snowy and cold out,
I like to hunker down for the evening. I'm in construction,
and I don't like the idea of having to start

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at seven thirty or eight so I can work in
the light. I like to start at seven o'clock in
the morning. That is a very legitimate line of reasoning.
We're looking at this all wrong. Let's just lengthen the
number of hours the sun shines. Ha ha ha, smarty pants.
Everybody's got to be a Wisenheimer. Morning already sucks, says

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this texter. Give me the light in the afternoon, But
then God meant for noon to be noon. Stay on
standard times, says this person. This is not helping me
at all. People. Dang it, I thought we'd have some
kind of resolution when we get back. The big money
scam of black lives matters. Well, it's finally over. I'll
tell you about that next.

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Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
The two minute drill at two, Hey, we're go to
minute warnings, rerapidfire stories of the day that we don't
have more time for play triple.

Speaker 8 (01:11:15):
Let's call this.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
It will take longer than two minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
Are up.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
Here's Mandycondle.

Speaker 4 (01:11:21):
All right, my friends, if you're one of those sorts
who dies just to take a ballot, selfie of who
you voted for and whatnot? Good news. In Colorado that
is perfectly legal, so you can show everybody your secret
ballot if you want. Now, in fourteen states, it is
not legal. So if you're planning on voting somewhere else
because you don't live here, you're probably gonna want to

(01:11:42):
find out what the rules are there. But Colorado snap away,
feel free, go crazy. But does anybody really care? The
answer is no.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
Next story the two minute drill at too y'all.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
Rudy Giuliani is flat broke. He has been absolutely busted
down to nothing, and a federal judge on Tuesday ordered
him to turn over all of his valuable possessions and
his Manhattan penthouse apartment to the control of the two
women who won a defamation suit that he now owes

(01:12:15):
one hundred and fifty million dollars to. The judge said, look,
you got to turn over your interest in the property
the woman in seven days to a receivership they will control.
And it is swift, it is simple. And now Rudy
Giuliani is homeless, and one must wonder, at this stage
in the game, do you think he thinks it was
worth it. I'm guessing the answer, maybe no.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
Next story too.

Speaker 4 (01:12:41):
Good news, you guys, And if you can't tell, I'm
dripping in sarcasm right now. In case you were wondering
who was behind the salacious rumors that circulated about Tim
Walls last week on social media, we have the same
group of intelligence officials that told us all that Unter
Biden's laptop was fake, but they've come out to say

(01:13:03):
it has the classic symptoms of Russian influence actors. You
know what, when I saw this today, first of all,
I rolled so hard, Like any of these people have
any credibility left after the Hunter Biden debacle. They need
to shut up and sit down. That's all I have
to say about that. Next film, here's a fun story.

(01:13:26):
A majority of practicing Christians are admitting to watching porn,
and not only that, they don't even feel bad about it.
This is not good news. And in a research report
called Beyond the Porn Phenomenon, and it was produced with
a ministry, they found that pornography use is so prevalent
among all demographics, and the gap in use among Christians

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and non Christians, as well as men and women, has
gone way narrower over the last eight years. Even though
practicing Christians were still found to view it less frequently
than non Christians. The gap between the two groups is
only fourteen percentage points. Some fifty four percent of Christians
reported viewing porn compared to sixty eight percent of non Christians.

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It breaks down like this, seventy five percent of Christian
men forty percent of Christian women reported consuming porn on
some level. Now, obviously people in the pulpit are a
little worried that their message is not getting through, but
no one really knows what to do about it. What's
more troubling, according to the study, is it well over
half of Christians who use porn say they're comfortable with

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their porn use and the reality for those who struggle
in the church that they too often feel like they
are alone. Eighty two percent said no one is helping
them with their struggle with pornography if they believe themselves
to be struggling at all.

Speaker 9 (01:14:44):
Next story too, Now, if you haven't heard, if you
are a quarter pound of a cheese lover at McDonald's,
you're going to want to go ahead and steer clear
of that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:54):
Because a man in Mesa County has succumbed to e
coalie after having a quarter pounder with cheese. This is
one of forty nine documented cases scattered over ten states,
including Colorado, and the problem seems to be linked to
the onions on the quarter pounder with cheese, and McDonald's

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has pulled the burgers it's associated ingredients off the menu
in some states, including hours and they'll be back on
when they can ensure that people can eat them safely.
And no, I don't think anything has to do with
Donald Trump's visit to McDonald's. Stop at you people.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Next story too.

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
Now, this last story is one that we need to
talk about. We need to talk about how pinterest is
ruining everyone's lives and how some people who don't have
enough things to do have come up with new ways
to make other parents feel like crappy parents. And it's
got to stop. And I'm talking about boo baskets. Have
you ever heard of this boo basket nonsense?

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
A rod, I've heard of it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:56):
So apparently you start, you make this big ass basket
full of stuff for Halloween and then you drop it
off on someone's porch and you're like, oh, you've been
boo basketed or something, And now you're supposed to go
out and buy a bunch of prep for a different
basket and go take it to someone else.

Speaker 5 (01:16:14):
I don't really die with this.

Speaker 6 (01:16:15):
We did the booing, Yeah, we did the booing a
long time ago. It was a different variation, but of
the realm. It was a fun neighborly activity.

Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
I will say, remember that, what was the variation, what's
the variation on this?

Speaker 5 (01:16:26):
It was like you would leave.

Speaker 6 (01:16:27):
It was some variation of like you would say that
you booed a neighbor, so like you would leave certain
things I think at other houses, not where they come
to yours.

Speaker 5 (01:16:35):
I can't remember exactly how it was, but it was fun.

Speaker 4 (01:16:37):
Were you leaving like baskets of stuff?

Speaker 5 (01:16:40):
I don't know if it was baskets at least, definitely
like some candy and like some like knick knacks. But
it was no, no, no, yeah, right time.

Speaker 4 (01:16:48):
No, I'm the person that it's gonna die on my doorstep.
I'm not doing that. I'm not I'm not getting roped in.
And here's the thing. One of the benefits of being
an older mom is I don't care, and you can't
make me feel bad for not caring about this.

Speaker 6 (01:17:02):
Yeah, it's a fun and festive Halloween tradition where neighbors
leave treats and surprises for each other anonymously.

Speaker 5 (01:17:07):
It's called you getting booed. We used to do that
in our neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
I remember.

Speaker 4 (01:17:09):
No, okay, this is the same fun that the shelf
on the elk or the elf on the shelf is.
You know, Oh, fun, fun family activity. It's gonna make
you freak out at two o'clock in the morning wondering
if your elf made it back from a night out.
If you know what I mean, you gotta get booed.
Come on, I know, I'm I'm going like I'm sour
pussing on that. That's terrible, just terrible.

Speaker 6 (01:17:30):
We had a dandy old time in the neighborhood growing up. Okay,
it was fun. I remember now getting booed. It was
good time.

Speaker 4 (01:17:36):
I you know, maybe you all knew that you had
that kind of time. I don't know that kind of time,
like my mom. I hope my daughter never comes to
me and says, boom. Now my daughter never comes to
me and is like, hey, Mom, how come I didn't
have a photograph of myself with a carefully constructed chalkboard
on every first day of school, cause I'm not a

(01:17:58):
Pinterest mom. That's not how I roll. There's no rolling
like that in our house. We don't do that. I'll
bite candy, I'll take you trick or treating. You gotta
work for it. And here's the thing that gets me,
Like kids should have to go through the work part
of Halloween. This is why I'm fundamentally opposed to the

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trunk or treat situation for more than like toddlers. For toddlers,
it's perfectly fine, perfectly fine, they're little littles. But when
you're in elementary school, you better get your ass around
the neighborhood right.

Speaker 6 (01:18:29):
Now or you come down on I assume I know
what side you're on when it comes to driving to
different neighborhoods and Halloween trigg or treating in different neighborhoods.

Speaker 4 (01:18:39):
My neighborhood is not good, but we don't. We will
go to someone else's neighborhood, but we don't drive around.

Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
It's walking the kids in and out of cars driving around.

Speaker 6 (01:18:48):
If you go into the hood and park in one spot,
and then that's what the wholehood, that's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:18:52):
And we do it with people who live in that neighborhood,
because our neighborhood is not good.

Speaker 6 (01:18:55):
But I've seen like cars following the kids, following the
kids trick or treating NonStop, like that's parking a spot.

Speaker 5 (01:19:02):
Do the hood get back to the car.

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
Yep. Agree to the person who just sent this text,
Anthony and is now incumbent upon you to go boo
Mandy at her house or at least at the studio,
and you know what, you know what, I'm going to
pass that basket right back to you. They're like, here
you go, Boo, I booed you back there you go, Mandy.
You're sounding like an old lady. Correct, because I don't

(01:19:24):
have that kind of time. We'll be right back.

Speaker 10 (01:19:26):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
I don't normally talk about crime stories until after they're
sort of disposed of, right when they're fully adjudicated, then
we might talk about it, reflect on it, whatever. Except
this story is so nuts. Oh, we have to talk
about this. We have no choice. This from our friends
at Fox thirty one. Denver police arrested two people in
connection to an alleged kidnapping and assault wherein the victim's

(01:19:49):
finger was amputated by his captors. According to the Denver
Police department. An adult man arrived at the Denver Police
District station on October seventh to report a kidnapping and
aggravated assault. He told police four people he lived with
held him against his will and assaulted him, including amputating

(01:20:10):
a finger. After two days of captivity, the victim was
able to escape and report the incident. Now, the really
bad part is Denver Police that officers conducted a welfare
check at the location where the victim had been held
and investigated to the extent they were able without having
full consent or sufficient evidence of a crime that would

(01:20:30):
allow the officers to get a search warrant. The victim
told police that the suspects left the location after the
welfare check, which allowed him to escape hours later. On
October eighteenth, police arrested Jose Pinera Moreno and Darwin Valiz
Gonzalez and help them for investigation a first to ree
kidnapping in prisons, secrete with bodily injury, first to reassault, disfigurement,

(01:20:54):
criminal extortion, And this is my favorite line. Police told
Fox thirty one that officers are still investigating whether this
incident was gang related activity. Now, I've watched enough crime shows, right,
I mean, Ayrod, you've seen the crime shows. We all
know how this goes. When you take someone ransom for ransom,

(01:21:16):
you kidnap them, and you call their family and say,
if you ever want to see them alive again, you
better pay X amount of dollars and oh, by the way,
we'll drop off his finger to let you know how
serious we are. We've seen this. We already know how
this goes. We already know now. We will have to wait,
of course, to find out if they are actually in

(01:21:37):
a gang. But stories like this, I mean, has this
I've only been here a little over ten years. Is
this how Denver rolls?

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:21:48):
We got stories of people being kidnapped in their own
homes and then having a finger cut off, and then
people getting arrested for extortion after they cut somebody else's
finger off allegedly. Is this what we are now? Is
this who we are?

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Is this?

Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
Is this?

Speaker 4 (01:22:01):
Because I gotta tell you, growing up in Florida in
the nineteen eighties, you would hear stories like this all
the time out of Miami in Fort Lauderdale during the
big big cocaine you know, cowboy days, stuff like this
happened all the time. And I'm just is that what
we're looking at now? Is this what we're gonna do?
Is this where we are? And if we do have

(01:22:25):
gang members who are here illegally, is there any doubt
that they would not try to somehow, I don't know,
capitalize on the fact that people are still running around
saying they don't exist. So let me just recap this story.
So nine News I'll just write their script right now.
Imaginary gang may have cut off a guy's finger, unfounded allegations,

(01:22:48):
though unfounded allegations. Yeah, it doesn't have a finger, but
we don't know. We have no idea what's going on,
certainly just random violence with no connection to any kind.
Because I know when I was nineteen, I said to
my friend when we were hanging out, you know what
we should do. We should kidnap somebody and cut the
finger off. No, that did not happen because I am

(01:23:09):
not a criminal, unlike these two gentlemen who will now
have to defend themselves in court after we find out,
if we ever find out if they have gang ties.
If you are a police officer, by the way, I
owes any inside information on that, I love it. Mandy.
This sounds like the movie Le Grande Lebowski, Little Bit,

(01:23:30):
Little Bit Mandy. Any word if the governor has filed
suit against the victim for insinuating there's gang activity in
Colorado TBD, Texter TBD. Anyway, let's do this. Let's just
take a break. When we get back, I have a
fascinating story about what happened to the ninety million dollars
that was collected by Black Lives Matter, And whatever you're thinking,

(01:23:54):
you're right, You're absolutely right. We'll be back right after this.
Look at it. A story from the Free Press. And
I talk about the Free Press all the time, and
I'm not trying to get you a bunch of subscriptions
you don't need. But there are a few things that
are worth your money, and a subscription to the Freepress
dot com is one of them. This is not a
paid endorsement. I have no business relationship with them. I

(01:24:17):
love what they are doing at the Free Press because
it's a bunch of journalists that have gotten tired being
micromanaged by big media. And here is the Free Press
doing some incredible reporting, including this story from today. Black
Lives Matter. In a very short period of time in

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twenty twenty, managed to bring in about ninety million dollars
ninety million dollars in a year, so people are starting
to ask what happened to all the money, including the
internal Revenue Service and the state to California. So let's

(01:25:03):
just say this, Black Lives Matter there are two separate organizations.
There is Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and Black
Lives Matter Grassroots. Grassroots was formed in about twenty nineteen
as an umbrella organization of local chapters of the group
and was co directed by Malina Abdullah. So the other

(01:25:27):
Global Network Foundation was started by a woman named Patrise
Culers and two other women whose name I cannot remember
right now. I remember Patrese's name because she was busted
after buying multiple properties with money from Black Lives Matter.
But she's not the only grifter in the situation now.
Mss Abdullah, who was the leader of Black Lives Matter Grassroots,

(01:25:49):
has been accused by other chapter leaders of using their
money to pay for vacations to Jamaica and her own
personal expenses. She has denied the allegations, but at least
eight point seven million dollars in donations are unaccounted for.
That's where California comes in. California Attorney General Rob Bonta

(01:26:10):
has demanded that Grassroots turn over their delinquent tax filings
and late fees before this Sunday. If they don't, they're
going to pull their tax exempt status in California. Now,
three years after BLM Grassroots split from Global, It sued

(01:26:31):
Global alleging financial mismanagement, claiming that ten million dollars in
BLM Global donations actually belonged to Grassroots. The court threw
out the case and they ordered Grassroots to pay these
seven hundred thousand dollars in legal fees that were incurred
by the Global organization. Now, let's talk about the Global
Organization for just a second. It started in July of

(01:26:54):
twenty thirteen by Patrise Cullers, Alicia Garza, and Opal Toomeny.
They were responding to the killing of Trayvon Martin by
George Zimmerman in twenty twelve. The stated goal was inspiring
but vague. The founders described it as a quote a
platform and organizing tool that other groups, organizations, and individuals
used to amplify anti black racism across the country. By

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the mid twenty tens, its founders were well known. Two
of them have left to launch their own celebrity brands.
Patrise's Culors has been running or was running, Black Lives
Matter Global herself, and in nineteen ninety after George Floyd
was killed by police, they raised ninety million dollars in

(01:27:41):
a year. So in addition to just skimming money off
the top, Patrise's Culors ink to deal with Warner Brothers.
She got a deal with Warner Brothers to create animated
kids programming, documentaries, dramas, and comedies about structural racism and inequality.
Boy those sound don't they? Well, they were never made,

(01:28:02):
but I bet she cashed the check she and the foundation. Also,
I love the way they say she and the Foundation.
That's so so so funny, so so so funny. She
and the foundation bought a bunch of real estate. They
got a six million dollar mansion in Los Angeles, a
six point three million dollar mansion in Canada, they got

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a three point two acre estate in Georgia, and a
Black Lives Matter Global handed out money to a bunch
of Patrise Colors, friends and relatives, including seven hundred and
seventy eight thousand dollars for services to an arts group
run by the father of her son, A one point
six million dollar check to a security firm owned by
her brother Paul. The foundation also kept checks totally two

(01:28:50):
hundred and five thousand dollars to a company run by
Colors and her spouse, as well as a two hundred
and eleven thousand dollars payout to a friend who helped
Colors write her memoir. So Black Lives Matter collected four
point six million dollars in the fiscal year that ended
in June of twenty twenty three, but they spent ten
point eight million.

Speaker 6 (01:29:10):
Yeah on what.

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
On what?

Speaker 4 (01:29:17):
Black Lives Matter Global is still trying to recover from
Patrise's Colors. She stepped down a month after it was
revealed that she bought all those houses. By the way,
from what I understand, those houses are not in the
name of Black Lives Matter, They are in Patrise's Colors name.
She owns those houses. So yeah, yeah, and I'm gonna

(01:29:39):
be This is what happens when a pile of money
falls on people who don't understand how to handle money.
And it's what happens when a pile of money falls
on people who believe that everything in the world is

(01:30:03):
corrupt and stacked against them, Because then that justifies anything
they want to do, because as long as you believe
that the entire world is inherently and irredeemably racist, and
you are a black person like Patrice Colors is, then
you can justify bilking the people who are giving you

(01:30:24):
money to make race relations better. I don't know if
that was ever the goal. It certainly hasn't. I mean,
I don't think anybody is going to tell you that
race relations are better now than they were. You know,
twenty five years ago. I grew up that I mentioned
this earlier in the show. I grew up in a
small town in the Deep South, and when I was

(01:30:45):
very young, there was there was enough racism in my
hometown to be noticeable. All the black people lived on
one side, all the white people lived on the other side.
But within our hometown there was a lot of mixing
of people outside of where they lived. You know, you
would often see an old white man and an old

(01:31:05):
black man sitting next to each other fishing. You would
see people sitting at the you know, at lunch together,
having lunch together. Black and white, people work together, black
and white. It was it was very weird. It was
very strange. But all of that being said, one of
the things that that situation taught me is that though
you know, there were openly racist people in my hometown, overall,

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most people were good and decent, and most people didn't
look at things that way. They looked at the person
that was in front of them, and if they were
a good person, that's how they decided whether or not
they wanted to be around them. You had to be
a quality person. And you look at the belief system here,
the Patrice Colors belief system that every white person is

(01:31:52):
a problem and there's no hope, and we are a
hopelessly racist country. And of course they could do anything
and justify it to themselves. You know, when you believe
you're a victim, it is very easy to become an
oppressor because you believe somewhere in your heart that you
are owed this right. I mean, this is the logic
of looters. Looters believe they're owed something. Okay, with all

(01:32:15):
due respect, what did Nike do to you? You know,
what exactly did Nike or Macy's or Louis Vauton do
to oppress you? And yet you're using that as a
justification to behave badly. Now it's a black Lives Matter.
I think, as after reading this story, as a movement

(01:32:36):
is largely done. It's just done. And a big part
of the problem, as made in this article was Black
Lives Matter disastrous, absolutely disastrous embrace of defund the police.
Because defund the police, we now know was an abject
of failure, and cities that embrace it are now scrambling,

(01:32:58):
like Denver, are to fill the police positions that they
need filled because crime got out of control because we
didn't have enough cops. And all of those idiots who
have been saying for years more cops doesn't equal more
safety have had it shoved down in their throat because
it does.

Speaker 3 (01:33:17):
It just does.

Speaker 4 (01:33:20):
So yeah, this person Mandy at BLM was a conservative group.
Everyone would be on trial. You are correct about that. Now,
I don't necessarily think that all of these players are
going to escape, because some of them have not escaped
in Atlanta. Wait, let me find this very quickly to
make sure I got this correct. Don't want to get
this wrong. It's a long article. Bear with me for

(01:33:44):
just a second. Tyree Kanyer's page aka Sir Major Page.
He was a thirty four year old former leader of
the BLM chapter of Greater Atlanta. He was just sentenced
to forty two months in federal prison for money laundering
and why fraud pocketing the four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars he raised from eighteen thousand donors to fight for

(01:34:06):
George Floyd and the movement page lavishly spent on himself,
splurging on tailored suits, nightclub bar tabs, an evening with
a prostitute, and, as he texted to a friend, a
big ass crib that he bought in Ohio after he
quote won the lottery. So it people are being held

(01:34:26):
to account. Not everyone is getting away with it, but
I do think that there would be perhaps a lot
more aggressive investigation if this were a right wing organization
one hundred percent. I agree with you on that, Texters.
But they are being held accountable. Mandy, I didn't know
we defunded the police in twenty twenty. The movement took

(01:34:47):
off in twenty twenty. It surely did.

Speaker 1 (01:34:55):
This.

Speaker 4 (01:34:56):
Dexter said, we tore down all the statues and destroyed
the cities. Didn't that fix race for sure? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep, Mandy.
What's the difference from that and Trump raising money for
his legal fees. He's not telling his donors the truth either.
I don't like Black Lives Matter either. I've talked about
the fact I think it's wrong for Donald Trump to
pay for legal fees out of campaign funds unless he

(01:35:17):
tells people these funds are going to go to my
legal fund, and he has there's a separate legal fund
that people can donate to. I've said that before on
the show. I think it's terrible, but you know what,
I'm not donating to him. They go on in this
to talk about the fact that the movement has largely collapsed,

(01:35:39):
but there are still outposts, and now they've shifted their
focus from Black Lives Matter to guess what. Guess what?
Just guess guess before I say it. Guess before I
say it.

Speaker 7 (01:35:51):
What.

Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
Oh if you guessed anti Zionism, you guessed correctly.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:35:58):
Yeah, So there are the side of Hamas, which just
makes me know I am on the right side of history. Mandy,
I'm not gonna read that one texter who is asking
about the segment on YouTube about social media that is
on my blog at mandy'sblog dot com. I also embedded

(01:36:21):
a link so you can find everything. As a matter
of fact. If you hear of anything on the show
and you don't know or you want more information, you
can always go to my blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
That's why I do it. That's the sole reason last
story of the day. I want to get this in
Because I didn't put this on the blog, it may
be on tomorrow's blog. So the United States National Institute

(01:36:43):
of Health funded a study starting in twenty five twenty fifteen,
as part of a broader, multimillion dollar federal project on
transgender youth. She and colleagues recruited ninety five children from
across the country and gave them puberty blockers, which stave
off permanent physical changes like breasts or a deepening voice
that could exacerbate their gender distress known as dysphoria. The

(01:37:07):
researchers followed the children for two years to see if
the treatments improve their mental health. An older Dutch study
had found that puberty blockers improved well being, results that
inspired clinics around the world to regularly prescribe the medications
as part of what is now called gender affirming care,
but the American trial did not find a similar trend.

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Doctor Olsen Kennedy said in a wide ranging interview, puberty
blockers did not lead to mental health improvements. She said
most likely because the children were already doing well when
the study began. They're in really good shape when they
come in, and they're in really good shape after two years.
The conclusion seems to contradict an earlier description of the group,

(01:37:48):
in which doctor Olsen Kennedy and her colleagues noted that
one quarter of the adolescents were depressed or suicidal before treatment.
In the nine years since the study was funded, the
National Institute of Health has decided not to publish the data.
Not to publish the data you know why, because, she

(01:38:12):
said the findings might fuel the kind of political attacks
that have led to the bands of youth gender treatments
in more than twenty states, one of which will be
considered by the Supreme Court. She said, I don't want
our work to be weaponized. It has to be exactly
on point, clear and concise, and that takes time. So
let me explain to you what's happening. The National Institute

(01:38:35):
of Health is experimenting on children, and when things don't
go the way that they wanted them to go, they
simply changed the information about where they started. And this
is what we're supposed to trust. The science. The science,
the science, manny I love. No matter the topic, there's

(01:38:57):
always someone arguing, well, what about Trump? You guys have
no idea. How many text messages I don't read on
the air, you have no idea? Oh to the text?
Who said?

Speaker 5 (01:39:07):
Did you see?

Speaker 4 (01:39:08):
Trump is gonna be on Joe Rogan Friday? Once again?
Once again, when it comes to campaigning, Donald Trump takes
the knees right out from under Kamala Harris because stories
were out last week Kamala Harris is considering an appearance
on the Joe Rogan Show. So my guess is is
that someone on Trump's team saw that on social media

(01:39:29):
and got on the phone and called up Joe Rogan
and said, hey, you want Trump on Friday. And Joe
Rogan was like, hey, y I'll take Trump on Friday,
bring him in. So now Joe Rogan is going to
interview Trump, and no one cares if Kamala Harris is
gonna be on the Joe Rogan Show. No one cares,
no one, no one. I think I'm gonna leave you

(01:39:56):
on this text message just to go off on a
high note. Have I'm voting for Adolf Hitler two point
zero in this BS election. There are no winners. Come
November fifth, a miracle will be destroyed no matter which
power hungry liar wins, Satan wins, and the United States loses.
You're not altogether wrong, not altogether wrong. All right, let's

(01:40:19):
go and talk to our man, Ryan Edwards, because now
it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio
of its kind, the world of the day. All right, now, Ryan,
you today are hamstrung, my friend, you you have to
wait until the question is over.

Speaker 5 (01:40:39):
This time, I'm just saying, yeah, who makes the rules here?

Speaker 4 (01:40:42):
Because it ain't Yeah, No, the rules have to be
the same for everybody. We're not Democrats. Okay, Wow, the
rules must be the same for everyone. Sorry, it was
it was like low hanging fruit.

Speaker 5 (01:40:53):
I had to taste shots.

Speaker 4 (01:40:55):
Yeah, I'm just saying, anyone, Okay, what is our what
is our day? Joke of the day? All right?

Speaker 6 (01:41:00):
Got another Halloween three for They're all bones related? Why
did the skeletons start a fight because he had a
bone to pick? What is the skeleton's favorite instrument? Whround bone?
And how does skeletons know it's going to rain. They
feel it in their bones.

Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
I like that one. Yeah, I like that one. Whoa
that is fantastic.

Speaker 5 (01:41:28):
Word of the day is a noun noun polaveror p
l A A p A A l A v E R.

Speaker 4 (01:41:36):
I know what this is and I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:41:39):
Yeah, if you knew what it was, then you would
say what it was.

Speaker 4 (01:41:41):
Don't know what it means. At some point in my life,
I feel like it's like a Shakespearean word. Polaveror is
someone who does a really lousy job at something. He's
a real.

Speaker 5 (01:41:53):
Ryan, totally guessing. Just somebody that is a fleet of foots.

Speaker 6 (01:41:58):
I don't know, fast to unimportant or meaningless talk.

Speaker 4 (01:42:04):
That is right. Yeah, theaver going on this show is
Polaverora'm right, yeah, we need that, all right. Today's trivia
question in geometry, what are complimentary angles?

Speaker 10 (01:42:15):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
Come on, nice kind of angles? Just say nice things too.

Speaker 5 (01:42:19):
That's cute. That was a cute, well done complimentary Actually this.

Speaker 4 (01:42:23):
Can I answer it?

Speaker 1 (01:42:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
Yes, it is two angles that add up to ninety degree.

Speaker 5 (01:42:28):
I swear to God, that's what I was going to
guess along those lines where to God.

Speaker 4 (01:42:33):
Yeah, supplementary angles. By the way, add up to Okay, Ryan,
you have to wait to leave the question.

Speaker 5 (01:42:40):
Okay, all right? Category is that at all? That means
a L L all is in every answer a missed
shot in basketball that matches whoa hold on? That can't
be So she gets to answer first. But I got
because she's on, because she's on zoom all.

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
Right, I'm at Southern Command.

Speaker 5 (01:43:01):
I think I think, I think I think that you
both get to answer whenever.

Speaker 4 (01:43:06):
Okay, zero, okay.

Speaker 6 (01:43:11):
To remove previously activated software from a computer.

Speaker 4 (01:43:15):
Manny, what is uninstalled?

Speaker 5 (01:43:18):
Structural term?

Speaker 6 (01:43:19):
To engage in stalling tactics and to refuse to give information?

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
Mandy, what's stall?

Speaker 2 (01:43:28):
Wrong?

Speaker 5 (01:43:32):
Structural turn?

Speaker 6 (01:43:33):
To engage installing tactics and to refuse to give information?

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
Come on, right.

Speaker 5 (01:43:40):
From a blank? Did you say stall?

Speaker 2 (01:43:43):
Mandy?

Speaker 5 (01:43:44):
She did.

Speaker 6 (01:43:44):
I'm not going to give you the point because we
already moved past, but stalling was acceptable.

Speaker 5 (01:43:48):
I'm not gonna give you negative, So go back to
where you were.

Speaker 1 (01:43:50):
Zero.

Speaker 5 (01:43:50):
What is stone walling? Is what I was looking for.

Speaker 6 (01:43:54):
We're gonna we're not gonna do negative. We're gonna keep
you even Mandy at zero?

Speaker 5 (01:43:57):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:43:59):
Sorts of rap reggae hybrid. This style of rhythmic excuse me,
this style of music originated in Jamaica in the late seventies,
has a L L in it.

Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
Two acceptable answers, I guess, even though one of them
doesn't happen.

Speaker 4 (01:44:14):
I know what is dance hall?

Speaker 2 (01:44:15):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:44:16):
Whoa oh, I wouldn't have gotten reggae tone essentially.

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:44:19):
This Norse god of light and the Dawn is also
the guardian of the by Frost, the rainbow bridge, Brian,
come on, oh, oh, guardian of the by Frost.

Speaker 4 (01:44:35):
I've seen the movies.

Speaker 5 (01:44:36):
I can't think of his rainbow bridge. He's holding the
sword god Ran. What is heal and Alba?

Speaker 8 (01:44:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:44:48):
Yeah, oh one one.

Speaker 10 (01:44:53):
The discussion at the beginning about unfairness and I don't
know whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:44:57):
Yeah, sometimes you know, winners win. That's where we just
letting you know. With my big one zero score, I'm
just gonna take that and go right now. What do
you guys have coming up on KAA Sports?

Speaker 10 (01:45:07):
Oh, we got all sorts of fun stuff. We're gonna
brick Lewis on the program. We've got a little bit
of nugget preview. Also, the Broncos are facing a different
quarterback now and the Carolina Panthers they're going back to
their first overall pick from last year, Bryce Young, so
that will be interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:45:20):
As far as the debate on this show, all.

Speaker 4 (01:45:23):
Right, my friend, that's coming up next. Keep it right
here on Kawa