10-31-24 FULL SHOW - Yes For Law Enforcement, Plus Happy Halloween!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm here joined by my favorite right hand pumpkin, Anthony Rodriguez.
You can call him a rod. I'm sorry, Baysiphus James
running the board today for the Mandy Connell Show. Yeah, yeah, stop,
that's so weird. That is so weird. Stop that freaking

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me out.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Man.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Happy Halloween, everyone, Happy Halloween. We got a lot of
stuff to talk about today as it is going to
be a beautiful day for Halloween. Kind of a bust
yesterday for the snow weather. I did get a little
at my house. You gonna eat your house a rod,
you know, just rain. Hey, we need the moisture. Isn't
that what we all are supposed to say? Like when
you get your Colorado driver's license, they're like, do you

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want to register to vote? You go, yeah, you do that,
And then they're like, do you want to have to
say we need the moisture at the end of yes,
I'll do that, sign up for that. Okay, whenever it rains,
we need the moisture, so we'll take whatever we can get. Now,
let me tell you what's on the blue because it's
a whopper, not the kind you can eat as a
candy tax. More on that in a minute, but you

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can find it at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Go look for that latest post section and if you
don't see it right away, you got to scroll to
the right. Just look for the headline that says ten
thirty one twenty four blog Yes for law Enforcement plus
Happy Halloween. Click on that and here are the headlines
you will find within anyone's tossing office. Half of American

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all with ships and clipments and say that's Corta Press
plants today on the blog get yourself some candy tags tonight.
I'm a yes on Prop one thirty forget about the
never sir ender rally in Fountain this weekend. Trump responds
to biden garbage comments and it's a doozy. It's clear
to me Joe Biden doesn't want Kamala to win. I
went to the Other Side Academy last night. The funniest

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story of the year. Denver drops the charges against pro
hamaf scumbags. Don't drink and drive this holiday. Jenni Griswold
must step down. Did this pollworker really cross the line.
It's time to embrace gay conservatives Republicans. Did you lie
about who you're voting for. How much candy do you give?
Trick or treaters? Aurora target shoplifters, dodgers win, Let the

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looting commence, the deep seated racism of the Democratic Party. Hey,
Rod's Halloween costume. You may finally be able to get
that mcflurry. Now the Yankees show how to handle that
ahole fan situation. Don't forget to change your ceiling fan
direction for winter expiration dates or a sham Star Wars
with four guitars. This seems unnecessary, but okay. The Tiger

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King found love in prison, real life anti Semitism in America,
My favorite Halloween story to date. Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com, and it's a
good one. But I want to share with you the
bottom posts of the very very bottom. There's so many
good videos on the blog today that you really should see.
We're going to get to describing to some of them
in just a moment, but at the very bottom, you're

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going to see this. So a guy's got a big
old bucket a Halloween candy. Right smack in the middle
is a potato and it says potatoes are so delicious
they might well as be candy. Then he continues, Tonight,
kids chose potato more than twenty five times, each time
triumphantly proclaiming to friends and family, I got a potato.

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One kid shouted a potato, just like last year, and
another group said, oh, you're the potato house your legends.
This has become an unexpected and joyful tradition. Kids are
given the free choice, and over and over again they
choose potato. My friends, every day you are giving a choice,
I encourage you choose potato.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Can we choose potato on Tuesday? That's what I'm voting for.
Potato would be awesome. Potato potato. Let's call the whole
thing off.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Write in potato, mister potato, mister and missus. Do you
have a mister potato head I had when I was
a kiddo? Anymore? Did you have the mister potato head
with the plastic body or the one that just had
the pieces you were supposed to shove into an actual potato, the.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Plastic pieces you were supposed to put No, not the
piece of actual potato.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
You have a plastic body, right, So, I didn't even
know that there was a mister potato head that when
it really when it first started, there was no plastic body.
You just got all the arms and the legs and
the feet and the eyeballs, and you took an actual potato.
That's like that awesome. That's like for you know, like
when you know you're poor, when you don't get the
whole potato body. You just get the pieces and then

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you have to find the potato.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
There's a level below that where you have to like
collect them like friends, and altogether you make one mister potato.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
You just have like a mister potato head with a
bad limp because he only has one leg correct one eye.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
I lost an eye? Yeah, well usually the eye comes
in the set.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
He doesn't have a mouth, just a mustache, just just
a mustache. So he kind of looks like John Bolton.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh, No, they should have a top hat with that.
I don't think there's there's a little blue hat that
he wears. You have a little blue hat, little baseball cap. No,
he does have a little black top hat. Does he
have a black top hap? I have a miss potato
head effect. I do not mean to go on on
a tangent there, because we do have some stuff to
talk about. First of all, it is Halloween and that

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means tonight little children will walk around and demand free
candy from strangers. Yeah. Best night of the year. Really yay.
We love this. And when they come home, you, as
the parent, it is your responsibility to take this opportunity
to help your youngsters begin to understand the role of
the federal government in their lives going forward. When they

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come home with their big bag of candy, you know,
they pour it out on the floor in the big pile.
I want you to just lean down, and I want
you to whatever your tax bracket is, right, if you
make a lot of money, your tax bracket's gonna be
really high. You just shave off that amount of candy.
You just don't even just shave it off. And they're
gonna be like, what are you doing? Mom and dad?
And you're like, today we're gonna learn about government. Now,

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what did I do to go trick or treating?

Speaker 6 (05:50):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (05:50):
The answer is nothing. But you know what, I'm gonna
take a thirty year candy anyway, that's how the government works. Kids.
I'm going to take a piece of that. Want to
take a piece of that candy?

Speaker 5 (06:01):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (06:01):
You I'm going to take a piece of fuels as well. Anyone,
if you're downtown tonight and run into Jack's barrow, that
might be a rod Hi. Maybe I put a picture
of his costume on the blog today because he went
all out, spent hours upon hours both working on the
accent and braiding his wig. Yes we did, Yes, yes
we did. He looked great.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Many thea balloons that cost you? Oh my, and the
balloons is time.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Oh so a couple of you weighing in on the
common spirit health text line, which you can always do
at five six six nine. Oh, I think my son
started the potato thing. I ran out of candy one year,
and for some strange reason he handed out potatoes. All right, then,
all right.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
That was all right, we forgot candy. What do we
got into pantry? Oh, let's give out potatoes and see
it clicked?

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Ay rod One of my neighbors in college gave out
hot sauce packets from Taco Bell because that's all. Oh
but he had like four hundred hot sauce packet so
he just handed out hot sauce packets and the kids
were like.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
What was this when they at least still had the
witty sayings on that.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh yeah, this is no. This might have been before
the witty sayings on them. I mean this was like
nineteen eighty eight or something. So saying plain hot sauce packets.
Oh yeah, what a disappointment. Better than apples? No, not
better than apples. If I get apples, I'm like, no,
if you can keep it, I'm good. Somebody tries to

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put an apple in my bag, I'm like, no, I'm
all right. Thanks. Want happy Halloween's trick or treatd It
was not a treat. Worst. The worst is here's a toothbrush,
and you know what, you can take all that candy
to the dentist's office and get a sticker instead. I
get it, people, but no, no, if you want to,

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if you want to get rid of candy, I should
have asked if there were any addresses. We used to
send candy to my son's unit when he was deployed.
We would send the candy there and Q even when
she was little, she would divide up her candy in
half and she would send half to her brother. She
would keep half of it. I know, so there is Christmas,

(08:12):
Come on, no, stop it. What if the kid has
three brothers? And not much candy. Do we add more candy?
You know what, I am just gonna say this. As
a kid, I loved candy, but I ate way too
much of it, and a little bit of candy is
enough candy. This is This is a perfect example of
a parent trying to soften the blow of potential disappointment.

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And that's the wrong thing to do, because sometimes you
get a lot of candy, sometimes you don't, and be
excited about the free candy you got. Just you know,
as we always say, the free candy comes like this, Mandy.
We would take taxes from the kids on everything we open, fruit, snacks, candy,
especially on Halloween. Parenting has to have some kind of benefit. Yes, yes,

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and needy, Mandy. When you take the candy tax, don't discriminate.
Make sure you take the good stuff. Yeah, you're not
taking in the orange and black candy. You're not doing that.
That's not happening, Mandy. Our dad took a candy tax
from when I was a child. He loves specific types
of candy bars and made sure he got him. As
a matter of fact, what would your candy tax be

(09:17):
if you had to choose? For me, it's always gonna
be Reese's Peanut at our cups, all and Joys. Ooh yeah,
I'd give those to you for free. All Enjoys pretty much.
I love Three Musketeers too. I never, I never, in
my life, I never purchase a Three Musketeers bar. I
don't remember if I have ever reached down put one
on the on the counter and paid for it. But Halloween,

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I'm all about one. Has candy ever had one after
breakfast today? Did you really? I did?

Speaker 5 (09:45):
No?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
It's Halloween. Today's a break day, no break day, but
I'll have IFQ gets some. I love those, but I'd
never buy one, isn't that weird? I only have bought one.
I can't remember how it comes in, like the pack
es actually where you buy a bunch of other stuff
I've never actually purchased. Does anybody does anybody buy a
crunch bar?

Speaker 7 (10:01):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Oh yeah? Really?

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh yes, oh yes, especially with the cookies and cream one.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
I take the leftover Halloween candy on my next airline
flight and give it to the purser, very nice flight attendant.
On PanAm, the head flight attendant was called the purser.
So that's an old school flyer. Right there, Mandy. After
you take the taxes out, you have to have the
kids learn about savings so they only get one piece
of candy per week. That is a little bit uh

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mean rude. Yeah, that's a little bit too stingy. Nope
for me, because you probably wouldn't even go through all
the candy by the next Halloween. Anyway, let's talk about
what we're going to do on the actual show today.
We're gonna do Halloween stuff throughout, but Joe O'Day is
going to join us at twelve thirty to talk about
Prop one thirty. I am a solid yes on this.
This would provide a pile of money to law enforcement agencies,

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specifically to help with officer retention off officer recruiting, because
most of our if not all, I think all of
our urban police forces are running short staffed, especially Denver
and Aurora, and we can't fix the crime problems that
we are having until we are fully staffed. And in Denver,

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as I said before, even when they're fully staffed up
to full authorization, that authorization was set like one hundred
thousand people go, so they're still going to be in
a situation where they may be outnumbered so we're going
to talk to Joe. I believe, if I remember correctly
from Joe's senate run, I believe his father was a
police officer. I might have him mixed up with someone else,

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but we'll find out at twelve thirty when he comes up. Then, Now,
if you're planning on going to the Never Surrender rally
and fountain this weekend, it has been canceled. So there's
supposed to be some weather situation and they didn't want
to put a bunch of people out at the raceway
to stand there in you know, sleet or whatever is coming.
So that is going on a quick question from the
text line, thoughts on trading out candy. I know someone

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who's allergic to die in candy, so they buy the
stuff he can have. I am one hundred percent in
favor of this because my daughter, when she was very young,
could not eat chocolate without getting a migraine headache. And
there's nothing more sad and depressing as a parent than
to watch your four year old have a migraine, and
so she couldn't eat chocolate, and we just said, look,

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take the chocolate, we will swap it out with candy
that you like, and we would take her to the
candy store and let her pick out what she wanted,
and then we would swap it out for the chocolate stuff. So, yes,
that is perfectly fine if your kid has an allergy.
And by the way, kids should always get together, always
get together and do the swap piles right where everybody
sits with their legs out. You got to do. You

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make the big round circle and then you put your
candy in front of you, divide it into piles, and
then you start trading. You're like, I'll take those tutsi
rolls if you take these almondjoys off my hand. Why
gotta why got named nuts the nuts? I would totally
take their candy, your cocoa nuts. I just don't like
eating fingernails, so it's fingernails. That's just what its insane.

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Almond Joys are delicious. I will take your word for you.
No chocolate, why would that be any different years?

Speaker 3 (13:14):
What is going on the actual almond No? No, no, no, no, no, no,
you're crazy.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
I did not know that. In American airlines, the lead
flight attendants called the purser. I had no idea. Thank
you for that. This person said, sometimes you feel like
a nuts. Sometimes you don't a rod nice Yeah, uh, Mandy,
my daughter's got cabbage one year in their candy bag.
Welcome to Brighton. I am not gonna lie I have cabbage.
I know, like a cabbage. I would hurl that back

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at you. I'd be like, no, I'm not carrying around
this giant cabbage.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Did you ever participate in the trick portion of trick
or treats? I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
You break it up or break it up? I can't
hear you. I mean, I will say I don't think
I ever did. Honestly. Anyway, why don't we talk about
what happened yesterday? So last night last night I went
and I got to go to the Other Side Academy,
which I'm gonna talk about a little bit later in
the show because it was amazing. I get home, I
sit down, I open up X, and I am greeted

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immediately with video of Donald Trump rolling up to a
rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin in a Trump branded garbage truck.
You guys, he says to the reporters, how do you
like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of
Kamala and Joe Biden. So if you missed the whole

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precursor to this, during Kamala's big last pitch, seventy five
thousand people gathered at the Ellipse in Washington, d C.
To hear her speak, to tell you why she's the
candidate and Donald Trump is a nightmare fascist, nazi, blah
blah blah whatever. The big night. That was her big night.
In exactly the same time, Joe Biden does a zoom

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call with an organization called vot a Latino that are
designed to get out the vote for LATINX people, because
that's the LATINX They're the ones who like LATINX. So
he's doing this call and in the call he calls
Trump supporters garbage. Now, I don't care what the CNN

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talking heads, the New York Times, the Washington vosts are
trying to tell you that there was an apostrophe in there.
There was not an apostrophe. Joe Biden has two things
going for him. Number One, he's old and he has
no filter left, and he gets kind of feisty. And
when he gets feisty, that filter falls even further. And
number two, I genuinely absolutely believe that he wants Kamala

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Harris to lose, and so this all happens. And then
it happens on the heels of a Trump comedian at
a rally in Madison Square Gardens making a really dumb
joke about Puerto Rico and the news media all the left,
they seized on it, they pounced, and for the two

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days after that, it was all these very serious looking
left wingers on talking headshow talking about how that is
just beyond the pale. You don't say things like that
about the supporters of some other candidate. You just don't
do it. It's just not done. And then before they
can milt the story till the election, here comes Joe

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B and Joe in a zoom call that nobody would
have known about except in it he called Trump supporters garbage.
And instead of having a bunch of very serious people
on the right sitting around behind desks scolding everybody for
saying such a terrible thing, Donald Trump brands a garbage
truck with his name and campaign and pulls up wearing
an orange vest to a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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And it was absolute genius. I am telling you right
now that even if he doesn't win, people are going
to look at the last six weeks of this campaign
cycle and look at the Trump campaign and go that
is free lessons for anybody else. The problem is is
that most politicians don't have the charisma to pull this off.

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And as distasteful as I find many of Trump's qualities
to be, the man has charisma and he knows exactly
exactly how to take a media moment and make it
all about him in the best way possible. And that's
exactly what he did. It was a master stroke. And

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if you have not watched the five minutes that that
have been all over social media from his rally last
night in Green Bay, I can't play it for you
because he drops the S bomb in the middle of it.
He curses, which drives me crazy, but we'll talk about
that later. It is absolutely hilarious about him rolling up

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in the garbage truck. It is hilarious, and not only hilarious,
there's part of it right right before he utters the
S word where he predicts exactly what the headlines would
be the next day. When we get back, you can
watch all that on the blog by the way at
mandy'sblog dot com. Check it out. When we get back
Joe Oday's going to join us. I'm calling it the
cop Prop. We want you to vote yes on Prop

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one thirty. We're doing that next first sort of shot
to prominence while running for the US Senate, but now
is spending some time helping get some balid initiatives over
the finish line, the least of which is Proposition one thirty.
I call it the cop Prop and it aims to
direct lawmakers and I'm reading this so it aims to
direct lawmakers in Colorado to allocate three hundred and fifty

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million in additional funding to local law enforcement agencies. This
funding would be used to pay for increase pay for officers,
hiring and retention bonuses, and hiring additional officers to address
specific geographic areas, more types of crime. And joining me
now to talk about it is Joe Odai. Hi, Joe,
how you doing, Mandy?

Speaker 5 (19:06):
Great to be with you today, How are you?

Speaker 1 (19:08):
I'm doing great? Do I remember from your campaign that
your dad was a police officer? Did I remember that? Correctly?

Speaker 5 (19:16):
He did. He was a thirty year veteran of the
Denver Police Department.

Speaker 8 (19:20):
And I distinctly remember as a kid, you know, wondering
whether or not that was too dangerous of a job
for my dad. It scared us as a family. And
then that's kind of why I've gotten behind Proposition one thirty.
Here with a bunch of great business leaders across the state.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
You were talking, we were talking briefly off the air
about the fact that this initiative is extremely important business.
Tell me about that.

Speaker 8 (19:47):
Well, we've seen crime just spike across our state. You know,
number three in violent crime, second to second third to
Louisiana and Nevada.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
We're still number one for carthfs.

Speaker 8 (20:00):
We've got a lot of shoplifting going on, and so
kind of how do you fight that, Well, you need
to have more cops on the ground, you need to
have better trained cops. You need to have them motivated
to do this job. Cs I did a study and
you know, we're on the lower end.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Of paying our cops. The entry level is about sixty
grand a year. That's not near enough.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
So business community got behind this ballot Initiative one thirty.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
It's going to do a few things.

Speaker 9 (20:29):
It's going to help provide resources so that we can
hire more police officers, more peace officers. It's going to
give them training that they so valuably need you know,
it's gotten more dangerous here in Colorado. We've heard of
these mental issues that people have had, given them training
so they're prepared to handle some of that. In addition,

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it provides a million dollar policy to the family of
any first responder killed in the line of duty within
thirty days. And that's really important as I remember as
a kid wondering whether or not my dad was going
to return from work every night. That's a big deal
and that hopefully will incentivize a lot of good people

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to take on this task that Colorado so deeply needs.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Now to the point of the insurance policy, the million
dollar insurance policy that would give any officer who has
a family who's concerned about that, I mean a little
bit of peace of mind anyway. But I want to
ask you, do you have specific data on how understaffed
like Denver Police, Aurora Police. I know they're understaffed. I
mean I know that. Do you know exactly how many

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they're down percentage wise?

Speaker 5 (21:44):
Yeah, I do know that.

Speaker 8 (21:45):
I've talked to Chief Payson, you know, he's the retired
chief of police from city County of Denver, and he's
told me that they've got about one hundred positions open
over there right now that they could use. And you know,
I think the cops kind of got a black if
you will, through the Georgia Floyd there here in Minnesota,

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and so you know, there was a period of time
where there was a lot of energy against them. And
now that we've seen the prime spike across our state
because we don't have enough, I think you're going to
see that people are really going to get behind this initiative.
We're predicting that it's going to win by seventy seventy
five percent here in Colorado. I haven't talked to any

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business owner that doesn't want to see more police on
the ground and have more security around there around the businesses.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Well, I mean, Joe, in all honesty, I think that
especially in Denver, downtown Denver has such a terrible reputation now.
I mean I talk to people and I'm not just
talking about conservative people. I'm talking about people of every
political you know. Swath to say, you know what, I
used to go down there all the time, but now
it doesn't feel as safe. So maybe I'm going down

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once a month instead of three or four times a month.
And it's had a really negative impact on allowing Denver's
downtown to come back after COVID. So you would think
that this would be the highest priority for pretty much everybody.
If you are invested in the city and you want
it to succeed, public safety has to come as the
first priority because I don't think until we feel confident

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that we can go down to downtown Denver and not
have our car stolen or broken into. I think they're
going to struggle. So I hope you're right. I hope
this crosses party lines and people just say this is
going to be better for everyone.

Speaker 8 (23:32):
But we've gotten support from not only the police unions,
all the chiefs of police across the state.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
We've gotten support from all the sheriffs.

Speaker 8 (23:41):
All the DA's have gotten behind this to you know,
hopefully start the curb the crime here in Colorado.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
And I think it's a step forward.

Speaker 8 (23:50):
It might not be enough, but I think we'll be
able to measure these results here in the next couple
of years as we see this money go into the
pockets of those that are serving Colorado and hopefully motivate
more people to sign up for this for this job.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
I have I have a question, and this might be
too far in the weeds for you to answer at
this point. But I was wondering how this money will
be distributed because I, you know, I think about these
rural cop shops. You know, rural rural departments out there
will only have a few police officers. Are they going
to have the opportunity to benefit from these funds as well?

Speaker 8 (24:28):
Exactly, this is a statewide initiative, and our view is
that it needs to be managed by the legislature. They're
going to have to sit in here and figure out
how we fund it and how we allocate those funds.
But there needs to be a group of both union
representatives from from some of the either Denver or some

(24:52):
of the other unions. There need to be some police
chiefs and there needs to be some rural sheriffs that
are on this committee that determine exactly.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
How we're going to appropriate this money. The one thing
that's very clear in this ballat is it is going
to peace officers. It's going to policing.

Speaker 8 (25:07):
And that's the one thing that our business community was
very advocate about is making sure that it got spent
on the guys that are putting their then gals that
are putting their lives at risk for our great state.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
And not necessarily about growing deureaucracy.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
Not at all.

Speaker 8 (25:24):
We want to see this go to the workers that
are out there that are protecting us.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
This text message just came in. Now, the text messages
come in on a little bit of a delay. As
a county sheriff, my concern is that this funding will
all be concentrated on the I twenty five corridor and
never reach rural Colorado. So we kind of address that now.
But I mean, you understand why a county sheriff in
a rural area would feel that way, because the rural
areas in this state really do get overlooked.

Speaker 8 (25:52):
Yeah, the business owners that I talked to that we
helped put this together, they're advocating that this gets statewlaw,
and it needs to be.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
By man and woman and not by bureaucracy.

Speaker 8 (26:04):
We need to make sure that it's allocated statewide, and
that's one of the goals that will make sure happens
as we work with the legislators to get this thing
off the ground.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Joe Oday, I appreciate your support of Proposition one thirty.
It is a yes from me, a yes from Joe,
and I hope yes from everybody in our audience. I
appreciate you making time for me today.

Speaker 8 (26:25):
Thanks again for having me on Mandy vote yes on
Prop one thirty.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Good to see you, Joe. All right. That is Joe
O Day. And yes, I was wondering, like, who are
the people that are going to vote against that? What
kind of colossal tools are going to vote against that?
You know, and you know it's not going to pass
one hundred percent. I already know. I already know the
answer to my question. I see people on the internet,

(26:51):
you guys, and these people honestly believe that police officers
are out every day just randomly, indiscriminately killing unarmed black men.
They really believe this, like they think one thousand black
men per year being killed by cops. And inevitably it's
white liberals who believe that the money is coming from

(27:12):
the legislature. They are not. It is not a tax increase.
It has to be allocated from the general fund as
it exists right now. So I am one hundred percent,
one hundred percent in favor to the person who said,
thank you for raising my concerns. I think that the
rural areas have every right to be suspicious of any

(27:33):
promise that comes out of government when it comes to
a statewide initiative, because in the past and recent past,
they've really gotten the shaft. So that is a very
valid question and one that I would hope that we
can ensure with the committee that Joe was talking about,
that we could ensure those committee appointments are diverse enough
geographically that we can make sure that doesn't happen. So, Mandy, sorry,

(27:57):
but cops are evil. Watch the YouTube videos. Too much
power and not enough brains. I'm a Republican, but cops
need to be neutered, not paid more up their salary
and get ready for more traffic tickets. Cops are scammers.
I have no idea what happened to you person, I
really don't, but I have had an entirely different experience.
And in every profession there's going to be bad people.

(28:19):
But the best cops I know work to get the
bad people out of their profession. I do not share that.
I just don't agree with it. I just don't, but
thank you for weigh in. It made me giggle, absolutely
made me giggle. It says, Mandy, how is iHeart able
to have a broadcasting license when they have commercials that
tell verifiable lies. Well, fun fact, if I told a

(28:44):
verifiable lie in a commercial, I would be subject to
FCC finds, I would possibly get fired from iHeart and
I could be sued for slander. But political advertising is
exempt from all of that. And here at iHeartMedia, we
are not allowed by Life AWE to complain about the
content of the advertising. If a candidate demands to buy

(29:05):
advertising and their opponent has already bought advertising, we are
required to take the money. The laws around political advertising
are so stupid, so incredibly stupid. If you guys even knew,
we have an entire department of salespeople that work on
this because it is so convoluted and so dumb. I

(29:27):
said this the other day. I am genuinely going to
see if I'm gonna if I could find a person.
I think I could get Congressman Thomas Massey on my
side on this, but he's such an outlier in Congress,
I'm not sure he's the most effective person. I want
to try and pass a law that says political advertising
is subject to the same standards that all other advertising

(29:48):
is subject to under FTC rolling Federal Trade Commission, because
then they could not just lie. They just they are
just lying. It's not even a little bit of truth
that's exaggerate. They're just making stuff up, completely making stuff up.

(30:08):
And in politics, I guess, Oh that's just politics. Oh,
that's just how it's done. Why is that okay? The
really sad part is I don't think I could get
enough people on in Capitol Hill to even consider passing
that kind of legislation that would hold them accountable for
what they say in their political ads, because they want

(30:29):
to be able to make sure that their opponents can
be attacked with those same kinds of ads, because God forbid,
they should make the case on the job they've done,
or the vision they have, or or the ideas that
they have going forward. Oh God forbid you make that
part of the campaign. So now we're just subject to
people believing complete falsehoods. So yeah, it's not on iHeart.

(30:56):
Let me tell you trust me on this. That is
not an iHeart decison. That is the idiotic and asinine
laws around political advertising. And if you'd like to advertise
your political campaign, please call us that I hurt media.
Uh Mandy, if it was, it wasn't political art advertising,
it was an I heard one about crime rate dropping.
I don't know what commercial you're talking about, so I'm

(31:17):
gonna have to listen and find it. Prop one thirty
will be a waste of time if we don't prosecute
the criminals. Correct, Correct, my friend, which is why when
you go to vote for a district attorney, you must
choose wisely. I'm excited because George Brockler is probably I'm hoping,
going to win the race for the twenty third Congressional

(31:37):
District or twenty third district Court, and John Killner's doing
a bang up job. We do have good das, we
just don't have good DA's everywhere, so it is it
is very difficult to You got to make sure that
you know all your votes matter. This text message made

(31:58):
me sad before. I mean it made me laugh before
it made me sad. This person says today we dropped
off a book at the Highlands Ranch Library dropbox and
a sign read please no ballots. That makes me wonder
if people are smart enough for rank choice voting. That
is a fine, fine question, a very fine question. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway,

(32:24):
when we get back, I've got to play. I just
had a rod grabbed the five minutes of Trump last
night because after Joe Biden called Trump supporters garbage, instead
of being scoldy and angry and mean about it, Trump
decided to roll up to a rally in Green Bay,
Wisconsin in a garbage truck wearing a bright orange yellow

(32:47):
or bright orange safety vest with yellow stripes. And then
he walks into the Green Bay rally and does five
minutes that he could have done at comedy works. It
is so funny. We're gonna play it when we get back.
The best song, best Halloween's song ever. We did the Bush.
That was Jack Sparrow doing that. Okay, this the first

(33:16):
hour of the show. I already told part of the
story that I'm gonna get into in just a minute here,
So I want to tell the other part of the
story first. Last night had the chance to go and
speak to the great people at the Other Side Academy.
The Other Side Academy is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program.
It is a no cost rehabilitation program. But boy, did

(33:38):
I learn a lot about it last night, and it
is it is a tough program. You actually live at
the Other Side Academy for two and a half years,
and you don't just recover you don't just stop drinking,
don't just stop doing drugs. You rebuild yourself and your humanity.
And it is absolutely incredible what they've put together. It

(34:01):
is just it is so staggering. I met people that
were so kind and asked lovely questions and were just
very grateful for me going there, and it was such
a great experience. You're going to be hearing from them
again on the show because I'm just so impressed with
what they're doing, and they're growing so they can help
even more people, and it's just it's a wonderful operation.

(34:23):
I was incredibly, incredibly impressed. But then I get home
and I, you know, kind of you know, put off
my professional clothes and put on my jammi pants, and
I sit down and I open up Twitter, and I'm
immediately greeted with the video of Donald Trump rolling up
to a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin in a garbage
truck wearing a bright orange safety vest. And I thought,

(34:47):
good lord, this is a masterclass in campaigning. Between this
and McDonald's, he has completed the switch of the Republican
Party from the party of the business and corporate elite
to the party of the working man and then he
goes into the rally at Green Day, Wisconsin, and he

(35:11):
does five minutes on the whole thing, and it's so
funny that I'm going to play it for you right
now because it was that funny. Go ahead, hey, Rod.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
So this outfit, you know, is when they when he
called us all garbage, How stupid?

Speaker 7 (35:26):
What a stupid word?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
That blows deplorable away, don't you think? Of course, I
thought irredeemable when she said deplorable or irredeemable, I thought
irredeemable was actually worse, but deplorable seemed to catch up.

Speaker 7 (35:40):
But this garbage stuffs blows her way.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
So I'm in this beautiful plane, I'm enjoying myself, have a.

Speaker 7 (35:46):
Wonderful suit on.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
And one of my people came.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
In and said, sir, yeah, know the word garbage, which
is the hottest thing right now out there, the hottest
thing out there, sir, would you like to drive a
garbage truck?

Speaker 10 (36:20):
Now?

Speaker 2 (36:20):
We're about, you know, thirty minutes from landing. We had
to do this pretty quick.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
I said, it's sort of cool, though, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Because you know, and I said, you know, I think
that's okay, But you know, I don't feel comfortable wearing
a suit.

Speaker 5 (36:32):
And they pulled up this garbage truck.

Speaker 7 (36:34):
I don't know how the hell they did it so fast.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
I have very capable picture.

Speaker 7 (36:38):
They put a big sign on the truck. Did you
see it? I think they sell it. And then they said, sir.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
We have a vest.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
I said, wow, should I leave my suit on and
put it over the vest?

Speaker 7 (36:57):
But that doesn't look very good? Right?

Speaker 2 (37:00):
That doesn't look good? So I said, look, let me
take it off. And then I actually said I climbed
into the truck. But he said so, I said, how
the hell do you get into this truck?

Speaker 5 (37:08):
It's way up high, it's a big one.

Speaker 7 (37:10):
This was a beauty.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
I said, you didn't have to buy it that big, right,
you have to get it that big. They brought this
brand new, gorgeous truck. Wonderful driver. He looked like Carrie
granted his prime you know that, this beautiful driver, and
he drove that big thing up and I said, man,
this is bad because now I have all the cameras
that all.

Speaker 7 (37:31):
What look look at all the fake news.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
There were most of them, now, most of them, many
of them were there, and I'm saying, oh boy, you know,
one little mistake with these guys, and your political career
is over. You can't even you know, I said, Man,

(37:53):
if I don't get up there, this is going to
be very embarrassing.

Speaker 7 (37:57):
These stupid people.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
They'll say, he cognitively and physically appaired. And I can't
do that when I'm alongside of this great athlete.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
I got to get up to that.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
So so look, so the stairs, the first stair is
like up here, I'm said, so so, I.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Had the adrenaline going and I made it.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
I made it, and then I gave a little news
conference from the front of the you know, they asked
their wise guy questions and I wasn't there. And then
we drove about two feet. I got into the pub,
and then I got in the car and I'm driving
over here and I have this still ang and I
come into the arena and I.

Speaker 7 (38:54):
Said, where's my jacket?

Speaker 2 (38:56):
I want to get out of the stage. And they
said it would be unbelievable if you could wear it
on stage, I.

Speaker 7 (39:04):
Said, And I said, no way.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
I got twenty five thousand people standing outside, I got
all these people here.

Speaker 7 (39:25):
There's no way.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
I'm wearing it on stage. They said, oh, okay, sir,
I said, get me in my jacket. But if you did,
you know it actually makes you look thinner, I.

Speaker 7 (39:35):
Said, and they got me. I said, I want to
wear it on stage.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
When they said I look thinner, I said.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Your head, bring down the rest, you get the pick.
I got to tell you guys like this, this is
the funniest thing. And then this morning I wake up
and I was like, oh, oh, I got to see
because I'm checking Drudge Report every day now it's unbelievably
like anti Trump. So you heard him. Just say, if
I don't get in the truck, they'll say, oh, he's declined.
Here are the headlines on Trump today. Are you ready?

(40:08):
Health alert? Trump misses truck door handled twice, nearly falls
over in worrying sign video, leg drag mystery Vegas paper.
He's crippled cognitively and throwing clear signs of mental illness.
Garbage man calls USA garbage. Can you guys? They're so predictable,

(40:29):
They're so predictable, and he predicted it and the last
I'm telling you, the last six weeks of this campaign,
he has had an incredible amount of momentum, and momentum
is what you're supposed to pay attention to Right now,
the Quinnipiac polls, and I Quinnipiac is not the most accurate,

(40:51):
but they've done really well in the past few election
cycles in terms of their accuracy. Again, the only poll
that matters is in November, and the only reason I'm
talking about this poll in particular is that it is
the latest in a series of polls that show how
the momentum has shifted in September and October. So right now,

(41:11):
in Pennsylvania among likely voters, so this is a swing
state likely voters, Trump is at forty seven percent. Harris
is at forty six percent. Now. Back on October ninth,
Harris was at forty nine percent. Trump was at forty
six percent. Before that, Harris had a four point lead

(41:33):
in mid in early September. In mid September, they had
Harris up five and over the majority mark fifty one
to forty six. Three weeks ago, she's still led by two.
Now she is behind by one. That is a big
momentum shift. And again, only poll that matters is next Tuesday.

(41:56):
But this is very very It's got to be very
concerning for the Harris campaign. And I think this is
why the campaign and the dutiful news media that is
clearly on the side of the Harris campaign did their
duty to try and spread the comedian's dumb joke about
Puerto Rico because there are a lot of Puerto Rican

(42:17):
voters apparently in Pennsylvania. Now, I would argue that if
Puerto Rico was so great, they'd still be there, but
they're not. It's kind of like living in Florida when
you get all these Northerners who move down, these Yankees
come down and they're like, you know what, back up north,
we used to do it like this, Well, then go
back north anyway. I hate people who don't like where

(42:39):
they've moved to, because you could always move back. So
this is a big deal with momentum. And I think
those comments last night, him showing up in an orange
safety vest at a rally because he thinks it makes
him look thinner, is so perfectly self deprecating but still
allows him to be Trump. Now, I don't are I

(43:03):
don't have to go through my litany of issues with
Donald Trump. I hope I don't. If you're just new
to the show, there's a lot of them. I've talked
about him for a long time. He's not my favorite candidate,
but I've already voted for him. Blah blah blah. So
all of that stuff, all of that stuff being said,
the last six weeks of this campaign has been one
great move by the Trump campaign after another, and for

(43:24):
the Harris campaign it has been the same, the same,
the same. It has been bad interview, bad interview, weird.
Tim Waltz kick the entire time. If you notice how
he gets out there and he kicks on his way out,
hey like ja but a kickout Rah kicking kicking out
there with walls. And then Joe Biden craps all over

(43:46):
her big moment at the ellipse. So talking about the
big mo Remember after the DNC, how many times do
we hear about the Harris campaign's momentum. They've got all
the momentum, All the momentum is in their camp. They
have the momentum. Have you heard the word momentum next
to the Harris campaign in about three or four weeks? No,
you haven't, because they don't have it. So I thought, again,

(44:11):
I just think to myself, like it. For whatever reason,
it's interesting to me that a billionaire who was born
wealthy can connect with working people. The way that Donald
Trump can and Kamala Harris, who was not born wealthy,
upper middle class, will put her there. I don't care

(44:32):
what she says about people's lawns. It's you know, upper
middle classes. Where she went to private school in Montreal,
upper middle class, so she can't connect at all. It's
just it's a very interesting sort of thing to watch. Anyway,
that is there. I also want to talk about We
didn't really talk about the old Joe Biden saying that

(44:53):
Trump's supporters are garbage, and that is what he said.
There was no apostrophy, but I said it a couple
days ago that I really really think that Joe Biden
wants Kamala Harris to lose. I really really believe this,
and I think that everybody who is passing off the
Trump supporters are garbage comment as you know, just a

(45:14):
stumble by a confused old man. What I love is
the CNN pundic class that is saying things like, you know,
Joe's best when he's eating ice cream and hanging out
with people with kids on the campaign trail. And I'm thinking,
and this is the guy that these same people would
have sat on CNN and told me was absolutely capable
of being president of the United States, but instead they

(45:36):
all got together and stabbed him in the back and
threw him out. Joe Biden has had a reputation for
a long time of being vindictive, and you don't stay
in power as long as Joe Biden's been in power
without wielding that power. And I really think Joe Biden
is so pissed that they stabbed him in the back

(45:56):
and basically threw him out of the race that he
immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, even though I'm sure they had
other Democrats in mind just to sort of torpedo the
democratic process, which he did to saddle them with Kamala Harris.
So I don't believe that it was a mistake. I
think it was purposeful. I think taking the zoom call

(46:18):
in the middle of her speech was purposeful. Why would
you do that? Why not say, Hey, you're really gonna
watch this big speech he's gonna do, we'll talk right
after that. Well he can't, he can't stay up that late.
I mean we know that, So I really And yesterday
the White House sends out on x a big post
that says it's time ban assault weapons now, I'd looked

(46:42):
up the latest polling data on an assault weapon ban.
Since twenty twenty, the assault weapons ban has seen majority support,
and that includes like eighty six or eighty seven percent
of Democrats say that they want an assault ban. Republican
is much much much lower, like thirty percent, and then

(47:03):
Independents tend to be somewhere in the middle there, but
they've never been over a majority. Well since then, an
assault ban's an assault band. Assault weapons ban has actually
lost support and is around fifty to fifty right now.
So it is it is a very close issue, but

(47:23):
it's an issue that only resonates really with Democrats. So
why in the world with the White House put this
issue on the table when Kamala Harris is out there
trying to win independent voters who are more likely to
believe that we don't need an assault weapons ban than
they are to believe we do. This just feels like sabotage.

(47:46):
And what I really think, what I really believe in
my heart of hearts, is that Joe Biden wants to
be able to go after the election is over and
Donald Trump won, and he wants to be able to
go out there and say say I could have beat him,
even though we all know we couldn't. But then that's
the hypotheses that we can't go back in time and test,
so it's just out there. I would have beaten him.

(48:09):
Michelle Obama. I saw a clip of her yesterday at
a Kamala Harris rally. I don't know when the rally was,
it was in the last few days, and she said,
I just don't understand how this race can be tied.
And I was like, girl, we have two of the
worst candidates in the history of candidates. Of course they're tied.
I was driving through downtown Denver yesterday. Now in twenty twenty, no.

(48:35):
Twenty sixteen, I remember driving through downtown Denver and there
were Hillary signs everywhere. I mean everybody had a Hillary
sign in their yard. It didn't matter where you were driving.
There was Hillary signs all over the neighborhoods. Everywhere you went,
there'd either random here or there Trump's sign, but most
of it was Hillary signs. I even saw Jill Stein signs. Okay,

(48:56):
so I'm driving through downtown Denver yesterday and I started
noticing there are no political signs in downtown Denver. They
are few and far in between. The signs that I
did see were Harris signs, Harris Wall signs. To be clear,
I did not see any Trump signs at all. But
if people just stopped putting signs in their yard because
they're afraid of getting hassled, or they're afraid of somebody

(49:18):
coming out of their property and messing up their stuff,
or maybe they just don't want to talk about it anymore,
how often are you guys engaging in conversations about this
election with people that you know? How often are you
voluntarily bringing it up and talking about it? That's what
I want to know because at this point, Uh, when

(49:39):
I see people that I that, I mean, friends that
I have for I just want to like, I don't
want to talk about the election, talk about anything else
but the election, and they're like, fine, that sounds great.
Text me five six six nine zero Are you talking
about it? Who is talking about it? Because I think
most people are like, I've already made up my mind.
I don't love my candidate, but I'm decided what I'm
gonna do, and i' I want to talk about it

(50:00):
or defend it because I don't think there's any real,
you know, any real high ground on either side. Don't
tell me you're saving democracy and then you throw out
millions of votes for another candidate because he was gonna
lose Doug like child, please save it with that, Mandy.
I just drove down College and Fort Collins and saw
groups of people holding up American flags and Trump twenty

(50:22):
twenty four flags. That's pretty telling too. Huh. There you go, Michelle,
is stop that Mandy Biden's best eating ice cream and
hanging out with kids. Did you see the scenes of
him yesterday biting infants and putting their feet in his mouth?
I did? I did? I did? Mandy now factor in

(50:45):
Doctor Jill's eire. Yeah, she strikes me as a woman
who is going to exact her revenge for real Mandy.
Vegas and gambling sites have Trump winning at sixty three percent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Man.
If you drive beyond Monaco, there are Harris Wall signs
everywhere everywhere. Okay, there you go. That's one neighborhood. My neighborhood.

(51:11):
We don't have a lot of political signs. We just don't.
We never have. We're not political sign people in our neighborhood.
There's the occasional random one here or there, but it's
never been a big I think because our politically, I
think my neighborhood is pretty It's more diverse than I
think people think about because people are also just very friendly,

(51:33):
so we don't necessarily talk about politics. So when we
get back, I have another compliment for Kyle Clark. And
next I know, I know, Arod, I know, but you
have to watch the story and you'll understand why Mark

(51:56):
Salinger did the finest bit of reporting that has been
done in Colorado. I'm not saying he should just win
every award for this report, but he should win every
award for this report because it's that good. And two
days in a row, I am complimenting the content on
nine and by default also compliment Kyle Clark. I know

(52:18):
I'm feeling a little peaked, but I think I can
get through it because the story is that good. It
truly is that good. By the way, real quick, if
you're planning on going out and about, let me see
if you can still get these. So, the Colorado DMV
has a campaign that is titled DUIs Are Scary, and
you can go to the Colorado DMV's Instagram page and

(52:40):
you can get a free seven dollars uber certificate to
download to use instead of driving drunk because lots of
accidents happen. There's just no reason, you guys, just no
reason at all for a dui in today's world transportation

(53:01):
on demand. If you can't afford an Uber, you probably
don't need to be going out. I'm just saying throwing
that out there. That is on the blog as well.
You can check that story out and get your free
little Uber certificate. I can't get to where they're giving
them out just yet because I'm not logging into Instagram
on the work computer. Anyway, We'll be right back. Got
a couple of stories that I want to get into,
but I have to give credit where credit is due.

(53:23):
Next on nine News has done the Story of the Century,
and I'd like to just play a little bit of
it for you to give you the gist of what's
going on. There are no pody language in this one
because it aired on nine News, But let me just
play a little of Mark Salinger's finest work. Whatever he does,
this young man in his journalistic career. From here, this

(53:46):
is going to be his Watergate moment, if you know
what I mean. Okay, okay, I'm trying to get it
here we go. Oh my gosh, Okay.

Speaker 7 (53:58):
Sit straight.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Hello.

Speaker 6 (54:01):
I'm TV's Mark Salinger down in Colorado Springs today to
share an important story going on in our community.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Blur it out for sure.

Speaker 6 (54:08):
There are a lot of words to describe what we're blurring.
Let's just call it a male body part.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
The mural is basically, it's a tow truck driver towing
a car.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
He's a big old.

Speaker 4 (54:18):
Running over while other running away from him doing Colorado
activities like mountain biking and snowboarding away and stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (54:28):
This is pace.

Speaker 6 (54:28):
He's a tattoo artist at Fallen Hero's Tattoo in Colorado Springs.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
He painted the mural that we can't show you.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
It's just been a parking disputse. So we've tried to
work together and it really got nowhere. So we knew
something like this Mrror would get their attention.

Speaker 6 (54:42):
The new apartment building next door has been towing customers cars.
They share an alley, but they are only signs on
the apartment side that say resident parking only.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
It's confusing and they say at least forty.

Speaker 6 (54:53):
Five of their customers have gotten their cars towed recently
for parking in spaces outside their building.

Speaker 4 (54:59):
They were the ones being first, so it's basically a
sword fight.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
Right now, I feel like we're winning to get back
at them.

Speaker 6 (55:04):
They did what tattoo artists do best. Now everyone in
the apartment building has to look out over this.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Now what is showing you is that the apartment building
is next to the tattoo shop and it is higher
than the tattoo shop. So they painted a mural that
depicts giant male units engaged in various activities of Colorado sports.
It's very cartoonish. It's not, you know, like, but it's

(55:32):
hilarious and it's huge. When you're doing things like this,
size absolutely matters. But I like Mark Salinger continue it's.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
Very cartoony fun, but it's still I wanted.

Speaker 6 (55:43):
To know if the mural violated any laws here in
Colorado Springs, so, being the professional journalist that I.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Am, I reached out to the city to ask them.

Speaker 6 (55:51):
They said that since the murals on private property and
the owners approved it, at this time, they can't say
that the mural violates any laws.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
And that's all I'll share with you. But this is
my favorite news story of the year, and now I
want to go down and meet this tattoo artist because
I love passive aggressive behavior. I know I shouldn't. It's
not one of my more proud aspects of my personality.
But I love a good passive aggressive dig Absolutely fantastic,

(56:21):
so so, so good, so good. A lot of you
weighing in on my question, are you talking about politics
to your friends and family because it's just so divisive
and no one wants to talk about it anymore, And
a lot of you are saying, now, I am not
talking to anyone about the race, Mandy. I do not

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debate this election at all, like I did between Hillary
and Trump or Biden and Trump. This one, Mandy. I
tried talking to relatives about the election, and their hate
for Trump overshadowed everything. They were cursing and spitting while
they were talking. It was insane. Yeah, don't talk to people,
you just don't. Don't say anything else, Mandy. I just

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drovee by the Larimer County Fairgrounds and before you get
to the Embassy streets on I twenty five northbound, there's
a semi trailer that says Trump twenty twenty four barked
out in the field. Uh, Mandy, I'm a long distance
truck driver and I drive all over the country and
I've seen lots of political signs. Only one hair is
signed in Oregon. All the rest have been Trump. This

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is my favorite Mandy. I talk about it with my
eighteen month old. She just mumbles and demands more juice.
Like smart girl, that's what I should start doing. Somebody says, hey,
let's talk about the race. I'll be juice. Oh how
about this a rod. What if I answer in interpretive dance,
you know, like do a little little interpretive dance, little spin,

(57:48):
little arm move and let them figure out what I'm saying. Whosh, Yes,
I think I'm going with that. Up Up, up up.
Let me find the other one here. About six weeks ago,
I asked my bleeding heart liberal brother in law to
tell me why I should vote for Kamala, but to
not mention Trump's name. He started with Will Trump, and

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I said, no, no, don't bring his name up. He
then said, because she's a black woman and we need
a change. That's the last political conversation I've had with
anyone that from Dan Mandy. The Babylon Bee has been
on fire lately, Yes they have, but what a target
rich environment we're in right now. I would hope they
would be on you know, fire right now. Ooh, funky Favorites,

(58:32):
best album ever, says this texter. I remember my dingling now.
See this is where I say, I remember my dingling too,
but I don't, you know, and that would it's a song. Hey, Rod,
see if you can find my dingling please the song. No, seriously,
it's a song. I know it. I've heard it. Okay.
When he was my grandmother bought me a cute little toy,

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silver bell hanging on string. She told me it was
my dangling. Okay, this person says, My in laws bring
it up all the time. They're liberals. They know I'm
a conservative. I just let them talk. I hope they
cry on Tuesday. I you know, I have my very
very very best friend in the in the world of

(59:20):
forty something years is a liberal, and we sort of
just don't talk about politics. But when she's brought up
things lately, I never bring stuff up because I don't
want to talk about it with her. I know her
opinions are different. I respect her ability to make those opinions,
and we kind of just respect each other. But she's
brought up a few things I don't back down. But
I don't argue, you know, I just I don't argue

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the point. But I'm like, you know what, that's not
how a lot of people see this. I don't have
a family that supports Harris. I've disowned them. Please don't
disown your family over politics. Please don't, Mandy. Politics has
banned in my family, right up there with religion. That's
the best way to do it, the best way to

(01:00:03):
do it, Mandy. We've already, we've already voted to talk
about the race. We need a bottle of bourbon or
possibly Valume instead. If we're talking with a lefty Yeah, yeah, Mandy,
My trumpeting relatives stop talking politics because I consistently shut
down their allegations with two words cite evidence. That strategy,

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though effective, I refer to as show me your link,
which is, oh yeah, show me the story, show me
the link. So see, the problem with them is that
I'm super good at finding stuff on Google that I
already read. So I do show them the link, and
then inevitably whatever news source I have sent them is
the wrong news source. So I, uh, show me your link. Eh,

(01:00:50):
I'll show me yours if you show me yours. Wait
a minute, I said that wrong. Anyway, We'll be right back.
I've got so much more stuff on the blog today,
including a story about a poll worker in Guilpen County
who was removed from her role as a poll worker.
But from where I read the rules from the Secretary
of State's office, I think maybe the Guilpen clerk acted

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out of turn and doing so we will talk about
that next one thing. I just want to remind people
it's been happening a lot lately, and I think it
is you Apple people. When you send more than one
text city Apple people are the worst they had entered in.
It sends and sends and sends and sense and sense
ye on our text line. They don't come in order.

(01:01:36):
So a lot of times if you send multiple texts
in a row, they don't make any sense. So yeah,
a little bit of a problem there, just a wee bit. Hey.
I want to remind people Tomorrow from three to six,
KOI Sports With is going to be out at Verizon,
the one in Littleton on South Santa Fe Drive. Not
only are you going to be able to hang out

(01:01:56):
with Big Al and Ryan Edwards, You're gonna be able
to see some Broncos as cheerleaders and former Bronco players.
But more importantly, you can enter to win a pair
of Broncos Falcons tickets from Verizon, the official five G
network of the NFL. That's tomorrow from three to six
at the Verizon in Lyttleton on South Santa Fe Avenue.
So I wanted to get that in there as well.

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So there was a poll worker, a pole watcher, Excuse me,
I want to be clear about what her role was there.
There was an election watcher on Tuesday who was watching
the signature verification process. Now, this pole watcher is according
to the Secretary State's Office, an election watcher is an
eligible voter who has been appointed by an authorized appointing

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entity to witness and verify the conduct of an election.
They have to complete a ten minute training course and
they're just another layer of security. Now according to the
Secretary State's Office, they can observe many duties. Okay, observing
those duties includes ballot receipt and processing signature verification of

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mail ballot envelopes, among other things. But those are the
ones that matter for this purpose of this conversation. Now,
watchers must be permitted access that would allow them to
attest to the accuracy of election related activities. This includes
personal visual access at a reasonable proximity to read documents, writings,

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or electronic screens, and reasonable proximity to hear election related
discussions between election judges and electors. So here's what happened
in Gilpen County. Donna Okray Parman has lived on on
either that part. She became an election watcher, and she
showed up at the election place to observe signature verification,

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and she sees that the clerk has taped off on
a square on the floor with a chair inside of it,
and it is four to five feet away on the
actual ballots that they are verifying the signatures of. She
clearly can't see what's happening, so she scooched the chair

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over the blue line because she was trying to see
what the workers were doing, and the clerk was like, no,
you cannot move your chair, And eventually it became a
kerfuffle when the poll watcher. When the election watcher said
I can't see the ballot, she was told by the clerk,
You're not supposed to see it. It's not your job.

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You're just a watcher. You're not the judge it's not
your business to see the envelope, and then told her
to move her chair back. Eventually they called the Gilpen
County Sheriff to have the woman removed. But from what
I'm reading from that Secretary of State's website, personal visual
access at a reasonable proximity to read documents, writings, or

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electronic screens, and reasonable proximity to hear election related discussion
between election judges and electors, I think that the Gilpen
County Clerk of Court acted improperly here. Now you could
absolutely make an argument that you certainly don't want someone
anyone standing right behind you staring over your shoulder like

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you don't want that. There has to be a reasonable
balance between making sure that the person doing the work
can do the work unfettered. But at the same time,
we have election watchers to watch the judges, that is
their actual role, and not just to watch them do
their job, to actually watch to see how they're doing

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their job. That's a pretty big difference. I'm wondering if
any of you know anything like inside baseball about this,
because I'm extremely curious about that. I don't know what
happens here. But here's the thing. In a state where
a lot of people have a lot of concerns about
election integrity. Whenever a clerk acts on the side of

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opaqueness instead of the side of transparency, you are just
making it worse, so so so much worse, so much worse. Mandy,
pole worker watcher is different from pole worker watcher, so
you may want to use election watcher. You are correct,
and I realize that I have conflated those two terms.

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I do know that they are different. It's just weird
to say election walk watcher election watcher. She was an
election watcher watching the election worker. So there we go,
There we go. We'll be right back.

Speaker 6 (01:06:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
No, it's Mandy.

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Connellnm Godyne.

Speaker 7 (01:07:01):
Sad thing the two minute drill at two Hey, we're
I go to two minute warriors, repidfire stories of the
day that we don't have more time for play check.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
Let's call this so it'll take longer than two minutes.
Are you out? Here's Mandy Coddle, you know, just as
a reminder of how things were so weird during COVID,
A man named Joe Exotic became a national celebrity when
the series Tiger King came to screens everywhere. Well, if
you've been waiting for a Tiger King update, I have

(01:07:33):
got it for you. Good news. Joe Exotic, who's serving
a twenty one year federal prison sentence, has revealed he's
found love behind bars. George Marquez is thirty three, he's
amazing from Mexico, and he is now engaged to the
sixty one year old Netflix star. Joe Exotic says, now

(01:07:54):
the quest of getting married in prison and getting him
asylum or we will be leaving America when we both
get out. Either way, I wish I had met him
long ago.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Cheap wedding, probably in jail, which means, to quote himself,
with the opposite, he will be able to financially recover
from that.

Speaker 7 (01:08:14):
Going to drill it too.

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
Thanks for our friends at Fox thirty one. They send
out a story to remind us to change the ceiling
fan direction. In the summer, you want the air pushing down.
In the winter, you want it pulling up. Wait, I
have that backwards. In the winter, you want to push
it down.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
It wasn't already confused? Yeah, well you know how many
times I've touched that switch.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
Well, now you know, because you can look at this
article and fix it. In the winter, you want to
pull the heated air down. In the summer, you want
to pull cold air up. Well, cold air sinks heated horizons,
so you want to push you in the other direction.
I'm confused. Well, you can read the article and they
have a graph in aera. Listen to you, there's a graph.
I'm just saying, go to the article. It's fine. Essentially, though,

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counterclockwise motion could feel colder in the winter. Because the
fan won't make the air colder, it still can create
a wind chill effect.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
There you go down there, or as my wife says,
just turn off the damn thing in the winter.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
In the winter, Home Depot recommends changing the fan blades
to clockwise clockwise. Got it in the winter clockwise? Yea,
up there we go it too. Very interesting story by
CBS four today about Aurora PD working very closely with target.
Target has had enough with the thieves and they asked
the Aurora PD to come in and they did a

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massive sting. And the only reason I'm doing this story
is because guess what, my friends, you're gonna be shocked
when you hear this. But a lot of the people
that they arrested for shoplifting at the Target Aurora, they
had warrants for other crimes. What I know, you are
shocked just as I am. Yes, they had drugs on them,
they had other warrants out and they cleaned a lot

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of them up in Aurora. I hope this continues because
retail theft discusting us all a fortune. All those thefts
are just being passed along to the rest of us.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
Real quick question on Target, isn't Target the one that
has that strategy where they record people stealing, wait for
enough recordings to build up where the value of what
they've stolen to meet a certain threshold.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
Now now now they just have the cops waiting there
to arrest people, basically undercover cops in the store, just
arresting people as they go out. Hey, guess what last night?
The La Dodgers one, which means that a Nike store
got looted and a bus got set on fire. That's right,
Dodgers fans prove once again that they suck pretty bad
by causing well a riot in Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Hear that bothers your dad? They sucks that's what Mandy said.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
I except for your dad, except for my dad and
my friend Adam. Yeah, that's the only two I mean
that I can think of that that don't suck. So
a Rod's dad, you don't suck, but everybody else does. Yeah,
They're just They're just garbage, all of them. Just garbage.
It too. I have an update about the tickets for
last night's game. Now that would not be used by

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those idiot fans. You tried to pull the ball, actually
did pull the ball out of Mookie Bets's glove. The
Yankees took those tickets and they gave them to a
young man, Calvin Young, one of approximately eighty children from
families battling pediatric cancer. He was supposed to come to
a kid's only press conference on September thirteenth, but he
was not strong enough to make the trip. He's been

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in the hospital, and the Yankees got him to that game.
Unfortunately for this little boy, who probably deserved better, the
Yankees did not win, but at least the Yankees put
those tickets to very good nies, so those a holes
didn't get to use them after all. Too. And now
one of the biggest stories of twenty twenty four. If

(01:11:41):
you are tired of going to your local McDonald's to
get a mcflury only to be told our ice cream
machine is down, those days are about to be behind us.
The problem was not that all the ice cream machines sucked.
The problem was they were all made by the same company,
a company named Taylor Company, the company that has been
making McDonald's milkshake machine since nineteen fifty six. And because

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of trademark laws, nobody could work on a Tailor Company
ice cream machine unless they were an authorized Taylor Company dealer.
Now and a ruling has been let or issued from
the United States Copyright Office granting a copyright exemption that
gives restaurants McDonald's the right to repair broken machines by

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circumventing digital awks that prevent them from being fixed by
anyone else other than the manufacturer.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Let's be real here, Ever, since the Donald worked at McDonald's,
changes were made, you know what I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
Saying, and people got e COLI. I'm just saying, well, yeah,
both of those things happened at the same time. But
you know what, now, Donald Trump could run on. When
I was at McDonald's, I took care of that ice
cream machine problem for you. I mean, that's going to
get shoe in. Shoe in, that's getting both. Like, go
ahead and redecorate the oval office. Okay, you've won based
on that. And lap my friend, you gonna drill at too.

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It's your two minute trail. So there are your spots
right there, Mandy. In winter, the fan pushes the warm
across the ceiling and down the walls. Who the hell
has fans anymore? That's so nineteen nineties. That is not
that is not a That is not a person who
likes school. There Fans in general like ceiling and standing.
We have in our bedroom right now, we don't have

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any ceiling fans. We have no lighting in our ceiling,
which I hate. We have eighty three well, we don't
have any outlaw. We don't have any power up there
and have to have an electrician come in. No, I'm
not doing it. I'm too cheap. So instead Chuck has
a fan on his side. I am a fan on
my side. We have two fans.

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
I have a take one that I have to angle
more towards me in the winter when it's too cold.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
But now, I mean, you know we both sleep with
the I slept with the window open last night. Oh,
if I could have it, if I could eat allergies, well,
I know that's I think where I'm stuffy today. Yep.
So but if I could have my room like sixty
degrees at night, I would be so happy. That would
be perfect sleeping weather.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Yeah, staying at the VRBO, RNC and D and Z
we both were on the same page.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
That was That was great. Yep, level a night. Nandy
Taylor is the same name as the Eco light onion maker.
It is, but I don't think they're connected at all,
not at all. Where's the X Files theme exactly? It's
conspiracy maybe, but if it's real, it's really a conspiracy.
When we get back, I want to share something with you.

Speaker 10 (01:14:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
David Strom from hot air dot com wrote a great
column about just an election based column more about the
media than anything else, and in it he says, after
years of watching trust in the news media slide down
so much that politicians are now more trusted than journalists,
it's dawning on executives and some journalists that people dislike them,

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they really really dislike them, and yet they don't understand why.
But then he goes on to talk about sort of
different ideological points that have occurred that have moved many
people who used to just be leftist out of the
Democratic Party. In cases like the people who work at

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the Free Press that we talk about, famous former staunch
liberals are now homeless because the Democratic Party has lurked
so far to the left. When we get back, I
want to read a lengthy post on x from a
woman who was a Democratic fundraiser and what happened to

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her within the Democratic Party. It is a fascinating look
at the negative impact that identity politics is having in
the Democratic Party. We're going to do that next. This
is part of a part of the article that I
was talking about with David Strom. I linked to the
article in the blog, but I want to share a
tweetthembedded in this article about how the parties have lurched

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in a certain direction, including the Democratic Party, and many
moderate centrist sort of leftists are left without a home,
just like a lot of centrist Republicans here in Colorado
have been left without a home. But this is from
a woman named Evan Barker, and she posted this on
her ex page last winter. I checked in with a

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friend in Democratic Politics life is weird sometimes, she wrote
back and told me she was staying at Alexander Sorous's
Hampton's house. I made a joke about coming to visit her.
Growing up in a Midwestern working class family, I'd always
enjoyed getting a glimpse into the lives of the rich
and powerful. Sorry, it's for people of color leaders only,
she wrote back. It would be odd if you were there.

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As a former Democratic fundraiser. You'd think I would be
numb to this kind of discrimination. But the truth continues
to pay me. The Democratic Party, once the champions of
civil rights in response to real injustices, is now the
primary driver of racial division in America today. Lee out
water Southern strategy pales in comparison to the modern DNC's approach.

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No organization is more systematically racist. How did we get here?
The Democrats' long term strategy is to stoke racial resentment
to build their coalition and energize non white voters. The
rhetoric is designed to convince minorities that America is irredeemably
structurally racist and only Democrats will look out for them.

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Social justice ideology, DEI and wokeness are used in businesses, institutions,
and schools to enforce democratic rule and used internally to
enforce party discipline. Note how Democrats united an entire coalition
around Kamala Harris. No one wanted to look racist for
suggesting there might be a better option. During the summer

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of twenty twenty, I was at a fundraiser for progressives
and saw crazy things. Campaigns started replacing consultants and campaign
staff with bipock that's oh, my gosh, black and what
does the eye stand for? People of color? Indigenous black
and Indigenous people of color? Sorry about that? A little

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brain feart, replacing campaign staff with BIPOC staffers to appear
more inclusive. A prominent Democratic group announced funding was reserved
solely for organizations led by non whites. Another campaign pitched
a donor back plan to source poor white people from Craigslist,
pay them to be interviewed, and then bait them into

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racially insensitive remarks. The candidate could then expose their racism
as a white whisperer who could change their minds. The
idea was insane and shut down by consultants who knew better,
but still came disturbingly close to happening. But deep down
this all started to feel wrong to me. It started
to feel blatantly racist, yet I was terrified to speak up.

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My personal breaking point came when a BIPOP colleague accused
me of being an entitled white woman who needed DEI
training after I disagreed with her over a fundraising strategy.
This was bizarre to me, being born with a genetic
disease that put massive financial stress on my family. My
parents never finished college and were married eleven times between them.

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I attended a dozen different schools growing up, including an
inner city school where I was in the small minority
as a white person. We lived in apartments, houses, and
sometimes a mobile home park. I paid for college with
pelgrants and loans that are still outstanding. Contrary to DEII ideology,
not all white Americans have privilege. This person knew nothing
about my background and turnished my reputation based on snap

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judgments about my skin color. Now I'm going to skip
ahead because this is very, very, very long, but I'm
going to end here. If Harris loses, prepare for a
full blown meltdown of epic proportions. They will see that
at the racist deplorables who again elected Trump, and they
will refuse to ignore knowledge racial charges changes in support

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because it contradicts their ideology. They will blame misogyny for
the black and Latino men who switch sides. You will
hear terms like white adjacent and internalized depression trotted out
to explain why people have color voted for Trump. Democrats
have done so much damage. They infantilize black and brown people,
treat them as victims with no agency. Instructing whites to

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never correct a minority is textbook racism, implying they can't
handle criticism. Unfortunately, individuals steeped in DEI will not change
their minds lightly, and those who use it for social
power will never change. The only way Democrats will learn
is by losing elections repeatedly while hemorrhaging minority votes. Racial

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de alignment between parties could turn the page and open
a more hopeful chapter in American politics. This is a
former Democratic fundraiser with the problems of racism in the
Democratic Party. It's pretty compelling. You should read all of it.
It's on the blog airball. Maybe I'm not ruling anything
else that's black cat in here.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
No, If I have a hairball, it's definitely dog hair.
So at the other side, Academy. As I mentioned earlier,
I went and spoke to the residents of the Other
Side Academy. They are a residential drug and alcohol treatment
I don't want to call it a facility because it's not.
It's a home. And I met all of these people
who are moving forward in their lives, and I just

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I loved it. I thought it was so great. But
they had the cutest dog, a rod, a little boxer
named Denver. I wanted to steal Denver. I could just
imagine Denver and Jinks would be best friends. They would
be pals, and they had the same coloring, and I
think Jinks would have really liked Denver. But I thought
it would be inappropriate after being invited into their home
to steal their dog.

Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
On the way out, probably speaking of when are you
getting a second dog? We have mixed that completely.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Why because I think that because you want to raise
that one. Here's the thing, Jinks. Jinks is utterly and
completely attached and devoted to me. Yeah, I am also
the human in the house who does the feeding and
the walking and the bathing of the dogs. I take
care of Jinks, so she adores me where I am

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when I get home wherever I am, she is right
next to me. I mean it's like having a one
hundred and fifty pounds very furry shadow. And I think
that if I got a puppy and the puppy tried
to get closer, get attached to me, it would be
very upsetting to jinks. We talked about it. We've we've
house sat other people's dogs. And after like the first
day she's you can see her looking at her watch, like, yeah,

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when is this thing leaving? Maybe later years, I don't know. Well,
I mean she's she's six now, and she's almost she's
almost six and a half. And as the Saint Bernard,
I mean, well, I hope. So she's in great health.
We just have blood work done so she's in great help.
But I just I just don't think she would like
another dog. And she's my she's my little, my little

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foot friend.

Speaker 5 (01:23:00):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:23:01):
I don't want to make that happen. Can we talk
about expiration dates for just a second, yes, because what
kind of expiration date person are you?

Speaker 6 (01:23:08):
What are you?

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
What's the date passes it's gone on? Oh you've wasted
so much fa I don't care. Here's the new splash
expiration dates are not standardized. They are just best guesses
by the company.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
That put the product out. Yeah, and I'm gonna oblige
to that best guess. I do not.

Speaker 1 (01:23:25):
I am not one of those people. The only things like, well,
for sure this is expired, then it's out. But but
if it doesn't say expired, if it says best buy
or freshest by, that's just a suggestion when to eat it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
Well, you said expired expired, because there's like you said,
a couple of different things expired for sure, gone best buy.
I mean if it has a it has an ability
to you know, pass or fail a smell test.

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
Yeah, then you know I use my nose a lot,
and Chuck will use my nose as well. We'll come
home and say smell test.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
The one main thing I use the nose for is
also the one I would definitely throw a past expiration.

Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
That's milk, well milk, yeah, I mean milk and cream
that you know when those are bad though, you give
it the old have you ever done this? You're like,
you walk in and somebody's like, smell this, and you
smell it. You're like, God, and why did you make
me smell that? Like well, I didn't want to be
the only one to smell it, or was that just
my roommate. We do it, Okay, we do it. I
don't I pour everything out when I am the official
sniffer of the house, like my nose is the default

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nose in the house. Whenever anything smells weird, one of
my family members will bring it to me and say,
does this smell weird? Chuck is very allergic to aspartame,
and you know that's in all diet drinks, so he
cannot have diet allergic like makes him violently ill, violently ill.
So he'll hand me his if he orders a soda,

(01:24:42):
he'll hand me a soda. Smell that. I can smell
a diet cake.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
You can too. I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
He is a very distinct difference. Doing this at some bout.
Are you working tomorrow Monday? I'm here, okay, Oh yeah, yeah, okay,
So bring in a diet coke and a regular coke,
and I guarantee you I get a Peppi though.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
I like those fine, just like I brought in the
The Unwitched via pickle witch today. Hey, you didn't bring
that in or was I You're supposed to?

Speaker 4 (01:25:08):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:25:09):
Sorry about that. I was, wasn't I? So tomorrow, now
you got to bring in the pickle witch, and you
gotta bring in the coke. So I'm making a note
for myself to bring in that. Why am I bringing
in the coke?

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
Because you're gonna be You're gonna be on the road
of them. You're gonna be on the road, You're gonna
be nearby.

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
You know, we got the wine yogy tomorrow, so I
don't know if we want to mess up for a
palette with a pickle witch tomorrow, ask her to bring it. No,
I'm not going to ask her to bring She always
brings everything. He's already on the way. I'll see if
she can find a wine pairing for the pickle witch. Oh,
but then we'd have to keep it. Do you think
it's gonna get bushy because there's nothing to get mushy
because it was already like kind of you know, not mushy,

(01:25:44):
but mushall mushy ish Okay, pickle witch and diet versus regular.

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
We gotta find some cups so we can blind test you.
I have solo cups at my desk, okay, because you're
definitely not can tell a difference.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
Yeah, no, Ayrod. When I was just telling you about
all that paperwork that I had to submit for that
thing that we're going to talk about later, they want
more from me. Oh yeah, wait until you guys here,
John Hancock, wait, talk about that. I am in the
midst of an immigration situation. Not myself, obviously, I'm an American,

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but I am in the midst of helping a friend
with an immigration system that is so beyond broken that
I literally said to this person, why don't you just
walk over the southern border? Just walk over? Designated Nose
A great name for a band. What kind of band
would be Designated nos? Should we bring in Ryan Edwards

(01:26:40):
to find out? Because he's well, he didn't do a
very good job with his band name. I'm just saying
his band name. This is old band name, Patrick Blue,
Patchwork Blue. He sounds like he's going to stand up
there and sing sonny and share songs. Now, that's not
at all acts Patchwork Blue. Wasn't it like a like
a heavy like a rock band heavy?

Speaker 6 (01:26:59):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
I mean what was he singing like like yacht rock?
What was he saying?

Speaker 6 (01:27:04):
That band?

Speaker 1 (01:27:07):
Oh my gosh, marching ants? Whatever that song is called
on the other what an what are you talking about? Ants?

Speaker 7 (01:27:20):
Ants?

Speaker 1 (01:27:20):
Marching song? Who does that song on my one? Hurrah?

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
Oh No, I mean that's that's not quite his He's
gonna yellow man, It's more rock my own pound.

Speaker 1 (01:27:33):
What's wrong with Patrick? I'm just saying I don't love
the name. I'm very good at naming. I know well,
I think he didn't name it. That's why I haven't
given him a lot of no he I think he
joined the band after.

Speaker 3 (01:27:47):
He worked so hard at naming that band. He patch
worked it together so much so they got blue in
the face. Patrick blued. It's a pretty good explanation, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
I am a super smeller. It is a thing. When
I worked at a restaurant, I became here all this
usually not good. When I was pregnant with my daughter,
I my nose became a bloodhound nose. And our house.
You walked into the front door of our house into
the living room. The kitchen is on the left hand side.
To the right is the entrance to our master bedroom.

(01:28:16):
So there's a good forty feet in between the door
of the master bedroom and the kitchen. Okay, I would
lie in my bed inside the master bedroom pregnant with
my daughter. Wake up in the morning, the door is closed,
and I would roll over look at Chuck and say,
you didn't take the trash out in the kitchen last night,
And he was like what. I could smell it like

(01:28:37):
it was next to the bed. It was actually kind
of amazing. It went away after I was not pregnant anymore.
That superpower didn't last very long. That's a weird superpower
because you imagine how bad like if you're in line
in the superpower, you know, lyne to get your superpowers,
and they're like, the guy before you is like, you're
going to be completely invisible when you want to be.

(01:28:57):
You can go anywhere. Guy in front of him is like,
you can fly. Guy in front of him, you have
super strength. They get to you. You can smell better
than anyone else.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
And the guy after you can fart on command at
any point in time. The guy in front of me
is like, get away.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
He's your nemesis. Going yet, that's right there, they just
created guy you never want to be. You go into yacht.
He got back on Saturday. I am not I am
not you guys. I try not to go out just
as a general rule, anyway, And he just made a
spaghetti sauce from two little cans of tomato sauce. The

(01:29:34):
best best by date was September twenty twenty three. Hasn't
killed me yet. Been eating it for two nights. Added
sweet Italian sausage, some garlic and onion. That from Jim. Well,
nice knowing you, Jim, Nice having you as a listener.
This person said Ryan Edwards's band was singing Hello Kitty songs.
I don't think that's right. I don't think that's right

(01:29:55):
at all at all, Mandy. New government regulations will require
a self destruction device on all items that have an
expiration date. They will self destruct the moment they expire
to ensure public health. If they could figure out a
way to do it, I'm sure they would, so yeah, bandy,

(01:30:17):
I can also smell the difference between diet and regular soda.
I'm telling you you're going to be able to do
it too. It's this isn't even like a hard thing.
This is easy once you do it, once you do
it side by side. I'm telling you right now, right
telling you, right now, this text message is for you.
A rod.

Speaker 7 (01:30:34):
Damn it, a rod.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
I'm on my third almond joy I want one bring
me what now, I'll bring you some better coconut stuff,
chocolate stuff from the chocolate therapist. Yes, trust me doesn't exist? Yes, yes,
holmon joys or enough Mandy, immigration issues. Why don't you
contact your congressional representative. Oh, they're involved. We're about to

(01:30:56):
bring in US senators as well. Oh oh, this is
just an absolute dumpster fire. And I cannot wait to
tell you guys about it when it is said and done.
And I am going scorched earth with the Immigration Department
because what they are requiring a person who, by the way,
already has a temporary green card, already has a job

(01:31:19):
in the United States of America. It's just as they're
letting millions of unskilled labor with no background checks, with
no real health you know checks, with just letting them
walk over the southern border, giving them apartments, giving them
cell phones. It is disgusting what is happening right now
in the immigration system. It is just so stupid, furious,

(01:31:45):
absolutely furious, Mandy. Did you know that a dog's sense
of smell is ten million times what ours is, yet
they put up with us correct?

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
Yeah, I definitely don't know that every time you open
a can or open anything and dog in the kitchen.

Speaker 9 (01:31:58):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (01:31:58):
They also have superhero for can openers Lego, what you got?
What you got later? What are you talking about? I
smelled it? Mandy, are the Secretary of State? Why are
we talking about password banks and such?

Speaker 10 (01:32:10):
Use?

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
Authenticators need a cybersecurity pro on.

Speaker 5 (01:32:14):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:32:14):
That's a good idea. Let me see if I can
make that happen, Mandy. I have MREs that have a
retest date of twenty eleven. I get one out every
once in a while to test them, and they're still good.
MRIs are very special. Have you ever had an MRA
a meal ready to eat from the mil a rod?
You rip open the pouch and then it has stuff

(01:32:35):
in the bag. They then pull out, you know, peanut
butter and tuticastrole and all this stuff that's just in
these bags. It's weird, Mandy. Expiration dates were designed by
the food industry to ensure you purchase those types of
items more frequently, thus ensuring their profits. There's really nothing
to them at all. A sell by date is the

(01:32:55):
absolute worst now with canned goods, I absolutely believe that.
But when I'm buying meat, if I'm buying meat that
I'm not using the same day, and the sell by
date is that date. I'm not buying that meat unless
I can freeze it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:08):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:33:09):
Now, I have a lot of little things here and
there on the blog that I wanted to get to today,
but I think the most important one is this. We
talked a little bit about this earlier, but now is
the time for us to discuss tonight's candy tax payment
system in your home. If your children are going to

(01:33:29):
go out beg strangers for free candy and get it,
it's only right to take this opportunity to give them
a very clear lesson in how the government operates. So
what I want you to do is I want you
to have your kid lay out the candy. You know
how they do. They're just so excited to see this
big pile of candy. Depending on what your tax bracket is,
I want you to just walk up eyeball and just

(01:33:51):
take that amount of the candy just right off the top,
and when your kids like mom, dad, just be like,
this is what it is in America today. The government
just takes money that you earned, and now I'm just
taking candy that you earned with your hard work, and
I'm taking it and I'm keeping it.

Speaker 5 (01:34:13):
There you go, So if we.

Speaker 1 (01:34:16):
Could make that happen, I want to know what your
candy tax is Mine personally is a race's peanut butter
cup or three musketeers. I could be bought with either.
Now I will occasionally I eat peanut peanut butter cups
on a regular basis, but I eat I eat nicer,
healthier peanut butter cups than.

Speaker 3 (01:34:33):
I had an intruve idea just now, if is listening,
who's heading out us up yesterday cookies with all them enjoy?

Speaker 1 (01:34:39):
No, I would love to try that, but please, okay,
you can get out stop. Why don't you just make
chocolate chip cookies and just sprinkle fingernails all over? It coils.
It just feels like fingernails in my mouth. It's gen
I'm a texture person. Check this morning asked me he

(01:35:01):
was eating grapes and he found a little teeny tiny
grape and he goes, here, that's a grape you would try?
And I said, if I wanted to eat a grape,
I would just pop out the eyeball of one of
my enemies and eat that. In stuff that's literally just
letting you know, no same, stop get that game, Mandy.
Immigration is an absolute is absolutely a disgust to United

(01:35:24):
States as I'm an American citizen and have been waiting
fourteen years for my husband to come back to the
United States, waiting over two years for his paper approval.
Thank you. It is a joke, I'm telling you at
this point, why wouldn't why would you even try to
do it legally? Just walk across the southern border and
get everything you need anyway, Mandy, and then go tell

(01:35:48):
them that you're going to give it to some other
kid that didn't bother to go trick or treat themselves,
and that completes the taxation lesson. Well played, Okay, Ryan,
we were using your name in vain a minute ago.
No no no no no no no no no no, I.

Speaker 10 (01:36:01):
Was.

Speaker 1 (01:36:02):
I was saying, I was making fun of the name
Patchwork Blue, And I'm like, what kind of songs did
he sing? What is the out there singing sonny and
share what's going on? What kind of music did Patchwork
Blue do?

Speaker 5 (01:36:11):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:36:12):
It was kind of like Dave Matthews Mashbox.

Speaker 11 (01:36:16):
Kind of don't like, like what did they call that?
Not not not quite an adult and then that version
was I mean in the nineties like that's you know,
it's very popular.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
And then I don't even think I know what was
the inspiration behind the name, because my idea was that
you tried to think the name so hard you tried
to patchwork it together because so much you've got blue
in the face Patrick Blue.

Speaker 11 (01:36:38):
Yeah, I mean, the guitar player in the band is
the one that came up with it. He kind of
framed it as sort of a patchwork of styles because we.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
All I said, I wasn't. I just said I didn't
think it was a good name, but it and ultimately
I'm not allowed to have an opinion. I'm just saying, oh,
you're a jerk.

Speaker 11 (01:36:57):
Ultimately it probably wasn't because most people thought we were
somehow related to like baby clothing, because like there was
patchwork blue is like a baby baby like something. Sure, yeah,
we get offers to purchase our website often from these babies.

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
Did you sell it?

Speaker 11 (01:37:15):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
I think. I think when when the band.

Speaker 3 (01:37:16):
Eventually folded, I just was like, there's always a baby
gap in between the price that they're offering the price
that you want.

Speaker 1 (01:37:22):
One last comment before we do of the day, Mandy,
I am one hundred and fifty percent agree with you.
Coconut is toenails. I hate fingernails and toenails so much
that when I clip them, they all get flushed down
the toilet because they're so disgusting. Reminds me try a
little better. But yeah, but I'm not an adult. I'll
pass that anyway. And now it's time for the most

(01:37:44):
exciting segment all the radio of its kind, the world.

Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
Of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:37:51):
All right, what is our dad joke of the day? Please?

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
Halloween for for okay? Why did the policeman ticket the
ghost on Halloween?

Speaker 11 (01:38:00):
Do you not know?

Speaker 1 (01:38:01):
Did not have a hunting license?

Speaker 10 (01:38:03):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:38:04):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
Why do demons and gules hang out togethers? I don't know,
because demons are gules? Best say it, but I wasn't sure.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
Why do vampires not want to become investment bankers? I
don't get they stakeholders? And finally, what did the skeletons
say to the dog? Don't eat me bonepite?

Speaker 8 (01:38:33):
Geez?

Speaker 1 (01:38:33):
Wow to the word of the day, please, it is
an adjective. Do you know what hallowed means? Hallowed means holy,
it means honored and respective grounds. It's something that has
dignity and means something. Yeah, he has a lot of meanings.

Speaker 3 (01:38:47):
Describe something such as a memorial considered holy or blessed,
or something that is highly respected and revered.

Speaker 1 (01:38:53):
All right, today's trivia question. I am interested to see
the answer to this one. How much does a blue
whales heart weigh?

Speaker 5 (01:38:59):
On average?

Speaker 1 (01:39:00):
Oh, forty eight pounds? I was thinking it's gonna I'm
gonna say thirty two thirty two pounds. Well, we're doing
prices right rules? Or are we just done? Whatever? Give
me sixty sixty and for prices right rules, you win? Oh,
four hundred pounds sale heart. But yes, by comparison, the
human heart weighs roughly ten ounces. Blue whales are the

(01:39:22):
largest living creature on earth. Four hundred Yeah for the
heart only, Yeah, for the heart only. Okay, yeah, all right,
I mean they are the largest creature on earth. So
there you go. What is our jeopardy category? Oh, I
wonder what it is? Happy Halloween.

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
This animal joined Halloween after the fifteenth century fear of witches?

Speaker 1 (01:39:44):
What is a black cat? That is correct? This Halloween
game may be derived.

Speaker 3 (01:39:50):
From the inclusion of the goddess Pomona in the festivities Nandy.

Speaker 1 (01:39:54):
What is bobbing for apple? Good one?

Speaker 3 (01:39:57):
Originally, instead of pumpkins, this small root vegetable of the
mustard family was used for carving Ryan Ryan, what is
a god?

Speaker 1 (01:40:09):
I don't know? What is a turnip? That's not very festive.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
This Christian holiday, also called hallow Moss, was created as
the day after Halloween.

Speaker 1 (01:40:20):
What is the Day of the Dead?

Speaker 3 (01:40:24):
And finally, this character comes from the tale of the
Dead Man barred from heaven and Hell, who wandered the
earth with his fire?

Speaker 1 (01:40:32):
Ryan Ryan?

Speaker 11 (01:40:33):
Who is.

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
Uh, oh boy, oh my gosh, it's head of Horsking.

Speaker 3 (01:40:41):
Nope, no, I'm not king. I'm I'm not going to
be the jack O'Lantern. Okay, I did not, which, you know,
you're kind of you're kind of right. So like halfpoint,
he's still what are you coming up on KA Sports today?

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
Hopefully not as much negative? We've got a lot.

Speaker 11 (01:41:01):
Actually, Adam troutmand Broncos Titans gonna join us for Off
the top of the show Man.

Speaker 1 (01:41:04):
The tight Ends came alive last week. That was so nice.

Speaker 5 (01:41:06):
It was great.

Speaker 1 (01:41:07):
It was great.

Speaker 11 (01:41:07):
And we'll ask him if he knew about National tight
Ends Day because that was last Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:41:12):
Oh well that isn't that aquinky tink amazing? There you go.
That was intentional and joining us at three thirty. So
so basically, if anybody's playing the Broncos, if it's National
Linebackers Day, they should be aware that they're all bringing
it thorn it out there. Yeah, just pay attention to people.
We'll be back tomorrow for a Friday edition of the
Wine Yogi, coming in with some candy and wine pairings. Ah,

(01:41:33):
there we go, So stick around for that