11-04-24 FULL SHOW - ONE MORE DAY - Don't Forget To Vote!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 5 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Monday edition of the show. Monday, Monday,
Monday feels like a Monday. Grant Smith in for a rod.
Always happy to see Grant, though, what is your sweater?
What do you got going on?

Speaker 6 (00:40):
There?

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Is that like an Electric company sweater?

Speaker 7 (00:42):
No, the sweater is from Shit's Creek, the TV show.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
Yes, oh, now I recognize it. I'm like, I know
I've seen that sweater. I just thought i'd seen it
on you before.

Speaker 8 (00:51):
But yeah, I thought since you were wearing black today
for Peanuts.

Speaker 7 (00:54):
Yes, Peanuts.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
Well Peanut we're going to talk about a little bit
later in the show because we have a moment of silence. Grant,
I need you to find on the internet some squirrel
noises and we will have a moment of silence and
will honor Peanut by playing squirrel noises and and have
If you don't know what I'm talking about, Oh, you

(01:17):
haven't been on the internet all weekend. You're a Twitter guy.
Did you see what I saw over the weekend about
peanut because the gifts just kept coming.

Speaker 7 (01:26):
Yeah, man, it was. It was Internet gold. But it's
another sad animal story, a.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Terrible sad animal story, victimized by the government. But I
did grab some of my favorite uh some of my
favorite memes from the internet to put them on the
UH on the web today on my blog, which you
can find by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
dot com. That will take you to the Mandy Connell

(01:50):
Koa page. Go to latest posts and if you have
to scroll to the right, you can see I headline
that says eleven four four blog. It says blog one
more day, don't forget to vote. Click on that and
here are the headlines you will find within anyone's listening
office South American all with ships and clippers.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
A say that's going to press.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
Plat today on the blog, Well, George Mama wants your vote.
Someone check on Jared Polis. When men play women's sports,
bad things happen. A Title nine complaint. I don't believe this.
It's time for this. Changing the clocks could have permanent effects.
You don't have to fill out the entire ballot. This

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is not your average Bear year. Two gang members arrested
in Aurora. The wolves are moving south in Colorado. SNL
broke the law but won't pay the price. Yes, Trump
said someone should shoot the fake news scrolling scrolling Rip
Quincy Jones. A Globville food bank needs your help. Another
restaurant closes over high costs and security. Young people can't

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buy homes. Rip peanut scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, more incompetence by
Jennet Gridswall's office. We've got election coverage for you tomorrow night.
Denver Central Library reopens. These Colorado wines are Gold Cup winners.
The bride went above and beyond for her wedding, and
now dogs jumping into leaf piles. Those are the headlines

(03:18):
on the blog at Mandy's blog dot com. I figured
we are almost there. You guys were almost there. Grant,
how much did you enjoy watching football yesterday? With all
the commercials?

Speaker 7 (03:29):
Man, it makes it almost unwatchable.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
I will tell you that here's what I learned watching
football yesterday. First of all, we're not going to talk
about the fact that the Broncos got.

Speaker 7 (03:38):
One that's originally thought where I thought you were going.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Broncos got whooped yesterday, but I really liked bo Nix's
press conference after. I'll let the guys in the afternoon
talk about that. But yes, if you watched football yesterday,
here's what you learned. Gebe Evans, it's too extreme for Colorado.
Dear Kiaraveyo is responsible for every fens andal death in Colorado,

(04:03):
over and over and over and over again with that race.

Speaker 8 (04:07):
Every single commercial break, praise every single one. And I
don't know I stream the games because I don't have
normal cable, so it was literally every single commercial break.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
It was every single commercial break on TV too, and
they played back to back. It was h Is anybody
convinced by those ads? Anyone? I'm actually thinking, And I
know it's super hard to run a ballot initiative, but
I think this one might have legs. Maybe I could
get enough people to volunteer across the state to get
the signatures that I needed without paying. But Grant, would
you vote for an amendment that says, in the state

(04:38):
of Colorado, if you lie in your political advertising, you
shall donate the same amount to your opponent's campaign that
you spent on any advertising attached to that message. Wouldn't
that be great?

Speaker 7 (04:53):
I think everyone would vote for that.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
I think so too cross party politicians. Right, they will
never do it to themselves because if I sat on
the radio and said the things that are being said
in political advertising, I could be fired. I could be
fined by the FCC. I could be fined by the FTC.
We have to take training about all this crap every
year here at iHeart it's boring, Yet we have to
do it. Grant am I lion, No, it's boring and

(05:16):
we have to do it.

Speaker 7 (05:18):
And lately I don't know.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
We have to do like all these trainings and they're
so boring, and they won't let you just like, give
me a piece of paper, right, let me read it.
I could be done in a minute and a half,
the entire yea till the guy goes And if Barbara
and Bob are talking as they give you a dumb
scenario about why you're gonna go to jail, so dumb

(05:43):
but necessary because they don't want us to run a
foul of the FCC or the FTC. Right, this is
our job. We have been entrusted with the airways of
the United States of America, and we have a responsibility
to get it right. Politicians do not put the same
rules on themselves so bad, and it just makes all
of these commercials are just unwashable. During the game, it

(06:05):
went like this went to commercial promo because you know,
the spot break always starts with the print and then commercials,
and Chuck would just mute it and then we would
unmute it at the end of the commercial block because
it was so annoying and so NonStop. It just goes
to show you how important that eight congressional district race is,

(06:26):
and it's it's not just important here. It is important
because it could determine the balance of power in the
House of Representatives, which is why it is one of
the most I can't wait to see the spending in
this race, this race alone, because it is incessant. It
is just non stop, relentless garbage. So we'll see who

(06:49):
wins tomorrow. Let me just give you an idea. KOA
is going to start our coverage here on KOA News
at seven pm. That is when all the polls close here.
Oh I'm sorry, six p Tuesday, and our news team
is going to be here. Ryan Schuling is going to
be anchoring, I believe, and yours truly will be popping
in from Southern Command throughout the evening. They're like, hey,

(07:10):
would you like to, you know, come on in comment.
I'm like, from my.

Speaker 7 (07:12):
House, beautiful home studio.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Let me tell you that was worth every penny that
I have put into that thing. It is paid for itself,
just in my time, over and over and over again.
So I'll be popping in, but we'll have all the
election updates. Here's what I expect to have happened tomorrow night.
During our election coverage. We will find out how most
of the ballot initiatives in Colorado ended up, right. I
say most because there's always one or two that are

(07:38):
super close and we don't really know the answer until
the following day, so we'll find that out. I fully
expect us to find out a vast majority of the
race that is here in Colorado tomorrow night. So I'm
hoping that we're gonna know more than we don't. I
do not. I just don't believe unless all of the
polling data is wrong. And I read something this morning

(08:00):
that was kind of interesting, and I didn't put it
on the blog because it wasn't that interesting. But I
read something this morning that there is a fear or
a concern that pollsters have adopted a herd mentality and
that when their polls shows something outside of the neck
and neck race, that we're being told it is, and
we've been told it is for the last four weeks.

(08:21):
It's neck and neck. It's neck and neck. And now
we're hearing, oh, Kamala's pulled ahead in Iowa. You guys,
everything you've heard over the last seven days is designed
to suppress turnout, and it's designed to suppress the turnout
of Trump voters. And I don't normally go all in
like I believe the press is doing this, but I
believe the press is so invested in by the press,

(08:43):
I'm talking about national media. I'm talking about newspapers. I'm
talking about all the people who work for the newspapers
who are apoplectic now because they don't get to endorse
the candidate we all know they were going to endorse.
Is anybody surprised if the Washington Bow endorses Kamala Harris
or the La Times. No, we already know what's gonna happen,

(09:06):
and the owners of those papers did the right thing.
They are trying to win back some of their subscribers
who are not screaming left wingers like me. I had
a Washington bo subscription for probably.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
God.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Whenever I think about how long I've been doing my
own show, it freaks me out a little bit. I'm
not gonna lie coming up on twenty years next year,
Grant twenty years. No, imagine when you wake up and
you go, oh my god, I've been doing the taking
it for Granted podcasts for twenty years. It's weird that
you were, that you were that focused on something for
that long, you know what I mean. It's like, how

(09:41):
have I been doing this? How am I old enough
to have been doing a show for almost twenty years?
That's crazy to me.

Speaker 7 (09:46):
That is so crazy, it is weird.

Speaker 8 (09:48):
Congratulations, thank you, because twenty years in the radio business
is not something to sneeze.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
I and I don't even I'm not gonna say it
out loud. I was gonna say something about how challenging
it is to keep your job in the radio business.
But I don't want to hex anything. I don't want anything,
you know, don't want to tempt fate. But nonetheless, this
I have no I completely derailed myself by thinking about

(10:12):
how long I've been doing this, but oh no, the
polling stuff. So the article that I read said polsters
are now afraid to publish an outlier. Right, So, if
you have a poll that comes back and it shows
Kamala Harris up five points outside the margin of error,
that would be an outlier. Right now, it could be
Donald Trump up five points. It's an outlier. It's not

(10:34):
where any of the other poles are. So they manipulate
the data. They massage the data to bring it back
in line where all the other polls are. So there's
a lot of concern that the polls right now mean
absolutely nothing, and that could be true. The only way
we're going to find out is on Tuesday. And the
reason I got to that point was I don't think
we're going to find out who won the presidency unless

(10:57):
one candidate wins handily, Like if one candidate wins four
or five swing states, then they're gonna call it. Even
if Arizona can't get their Maricopa county ballots counted for
two or three weeks, which, by the way, that is
an outrage, the fact that one county in Arizona can't

(11:17):
get their balance counted for two to three weeks. That's
according to their own clerk. Somebody pointed out, rightly so
and hang on with a second getting a number here
to make sure I'm right. Florida has twenty two point
sixty one million people living there and they return their
ballot results in three hours, So Maricopa County. I don't

(11:40):
know what's going on there, but if I lived in
Maricopa County, I would be saying, can we call Florida
and ask them how they do it? Maybe look and
see what's going on over there that we could do now.
I want to ask our texts and you can always
text the Common Spirit Health text line at five six
six 's nine? Oh uh, have you guys voted? If not,

(12:03):
why not? I'd just like to know because a lot
of people, a lot of people have already voted in Colorado.
I looked for the number this morning. As a matter
of fact. You see, KDVR is usually good about telling
us how much or how many people have voted. I

(12:24):
will find that momentarily. But over a million Colorados have
already voted.

Speaker 8 (12:29):
Maybe the people who haven't voted yet are just still
trying to decipher the four page long ballot.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
From reel I mean for real, that was real, pular.
I think we had a longer one, like right when
I got here and there was all these ballot in
issue to know. Maybe a little bit later, maybe twenty sixteen,
we had a super long ballot where we voted down
everything on the ballot and then the Democratic Legislature went
past it all. Anyway, I will never forget that. I

(12:55):
was like, hey, we asked your opinion, you said no,
but they were like, but you didn't really me it
didn't mean it. Yeah, yeah, Mandy, those are the exact
same commercials they play on the stream on iHeart. I'm sorry,
you guys, I'm so sorry. I wish I I'm just

(13:18):
gonna say it. There's a lot of things that I
Heart does really, really well. The commercial breaks on the
streaming are not at the top of that list. They
may be at the very very bottom of list of
things that I Heart does not even does well. I
get probably more complaints from you guys listening to the
stream on that than anything else, and I forward them all.

(13:41):
But it's like that doesn't happen here necessarily. That's the problem. Mandy.
I voted, and I proudly wear my I voted sticker
from a Rapo County Mandy, Florida has to be done
voting by four thirty dinner time.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
Haha.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
Florida has two time zones, so the yeah, they have
the Eastern and Central time zone. You cross into you know,
you go back in time just driving through the panhandle
of Florida. But they have the polls closed seven Central
time in Florida. They have those results out by eleven PM. Yes,
we voted, our son voted in person, voted and drop

(14:17):
my ballot off two weeks ago. A lot of you
are voting. Yes, eight o'clock this morning, Jason went and voted.
Still researching issues, so I haven't voted. I will tell
you this there, I did a ballot guide. Ross did
a ballot guide. The Independence Institute has an entire gathering
of ballot guides, including Mike Rosen's. So if you just

(14:37):
go to Google and type Mike Rosen ballot guide or
Mandy Colnell ballot guide or Roskaminsky ballot guide, you're going
to find ballot guides if you need help. And you
may not agree with us, right, that's the thing, but
at least it'll give you a perspective from which to
make an informed decision. So, Mandy, I'm proud to tell
you that I voted in the best interests of my

(14:57):
country and myself, and I wrote in Kyle Clark for President. Excellent.
I didn't know Kyle's mom listened to the show. Hi
Kyle's mom. Hi, Hi there, You're awesome. Anyway, everybody's already voted.
I have the one person who said I haven't voted

(15:19):
because I haven't you know, checked into my issues yet, which, guys,
that's a reasonable reason. I'm wondering if any of you
were voted or not voting because you like the in
person voting experience. Did you ever go vote with your
parents when you were little, Like.

Speaker 7 (15:33):
On election Day, I went with them.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah, that's what. Did they have the big booth that
he walked in? And yes, it was so good. It
was so exciting and dramatic, do you know what I mean?
Because you had to. You pulled down the lever and
then the curtain goes behind you, and then you switched
your little whatever it was. You did your little deal
and you pulled your levers, and then when you cast
your ballot, you thrust that lever up. Everything went to

(15:56):
changing and the curtainked open, and you were like, I
have done something important. I have done something that matters.
And now you go in and it's like, oh, I'll
go over to the little cardboard stand over there with
the little three sided things, so no one can cheat
off my ballot.

Speaker 8 (16:10):
See I'm always saying I always just drop it in
a box. Yeah, I do feel nearly as special.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
I messed up my ballot a few years ago and
had to go in person and vote, and it was
just so anti climatic. It was just not as cool
as it was when I was a little kid. And
my mom went in that booth and I got to
stand there and watch the whole thing, and then she
pushed that lever and cut changing and the curtain flew open.

Speaker 9 (16:33):
I was like, this is amazing, This is so good,
so so so good, so pretty excited about that.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
Oh, they're looking at PA. Pennsylvania early voting by party registration,
Democrats are down about eight hundred thousand early voters. Republicans
are down one hundred thousand, but Democrats are still up
about three hundred thousand over Democrats in Pennsylvania. So it's
going to be really really interesting. Who else is ready

(17:06):
for this? To be over. Everybody raise your hands. Well,
look at all those people on I twenty five with
their hands up right now. I don't know if anybody
is gonna be sad except for people who make money
off of campaigns. They're the only ones there are going
to be sad. So it used to be Darth Vader

(17:27):
voting machine, now white cardboard box. Yeah that's kind of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mandy,
how did Grant vote? Are you afraid your KBCO friends
are listening? Grant is under no obligation to tell anyone
who he voted for, and I would not put him
or a Rod or any other producer who doesn't have
their name on the show on the spot like that.

(17:48):
We have a secret ballot for a reason, and I
know Grant and I trust him to have given everything
a lot of thought, and therefore, even if he chose poorly,
I still respect his decision, And in no way would
I ask him who's vote for it?

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Now?

Speaker 5 (18:00):
If you wanted to tell us, he could, but I'm
not putting him on the spot like that. I do
a show with my name on it, so you know,
kind of an open book, Mandy. I may or may
not have early voted I sent my ballot a week
ago to our polling place in Ray, Colorado, which in
the past would have taken one day to be received.
But thanks to our postal system, if I do not
get confirmation by tomorrow, I will go in and vote

(18:22):
in person. Good plan. This is why I use the
drop boxes. Because drop boxes especially, I use the one
at a city hall. Right, I go to a city hall,
I drop my ballot off in the box. It's already
been it's already been counted mine house, Mandy. I walked
to my library to drop it off. I refuse to

(18:42):
take my husband's ballot because he is voting for Harris.
That's hilarious. Gotta drop it off, absolutely hilarious. Take out
your own trash anyway, Mandy. Congratulations on twenty years of broadcasting.
I've actually been in radio for almost twenty seven years.

(19:05):
Twenty eight years. Oh God, thirty, oh Grant. I need
to lie down. I'm gonna take a break. I can't
be this old.

Speaker 7 (19:16):
It is about your naptime.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
I can't be this old. When we get back, George,
Mama is running for House District twenty five in the
western part of Jeffco. We're going to talk to him. Next.
If you are in HD twenty five, that is House
District twenty five, and you've not voted yet, perhaps you
will want to vote for my next guest, George. Mama,
he wants your vote. George, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
Thanks man, thanks for having me.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Well.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
First of all, give my audience a little bit of
info about where HD twenty five is, just in case
they don't know their house district understood.

Speaker 6 (19:51):
HD twenty five runs from I seventy south Deckers and
from a roughly pine junction east to Wadsworth. It jig
jogs around in the year at Ken Carroll a little
bit up the bold with a little finger as a
result of the redistrict team. But and then it goes
right back down the deckors from there.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
So when's we're really looking at West Jeffco Area? Right,
Western jeff Co.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
Okay, George. Why in the world would you want to
go into the House of Representatives where Republicans are so outnumbered?
What inspired you to run?

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (20:24):
Well, I'm running to the state representative because of the
current representative doesn't represent all the people in my district.
I grew up here, so I'm very big on making
sure that the people here get a voice, and we
haven't really had that up here. The current representative is
aligned herself with the far left. She's been an activist,

(20:44):
and a majority of her decisions are not really in
the interests of the constituents.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Up here in what respect. Give me some examples.

Speaker 6 (20:53):
Well, the crime and economy are the biggest ones that
constituents are calling me about. Followed why they want some
choice for the You know, they're complaining about the fact
that the school district is thinking they've got really good
scores of c's and d they're academics, which the parents say,
if I can't get my kids educated the way I want,

(21:14):
I want to be able to take them somewhere else.
I get it. The other big one right now is
can't get insurance in the mountains for their homes because
of the fire problem. And the roads are terrible, and
we've got a governor who's decided to get sixty battery
powered buses but not maintain our existing roads or do
anything to further our infrastructure. So the folks in the

(21:35):
mountains are calling me, going, how am I going to
get out of the hills If we're not going to
maintain the existing roads.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Well, you're preaching to the choir on all those things.
I mean that is, those are things that I am
extremely concerned about. I'd like to kind of touch on
that homeowner's insurance situation because I think we are perilously
close to having a home insurance crisis along the lines
that they have in Florida. I'd love to know what
ideas you have or avenues you would pursue to manage

(22:05):
homeowners insurance as we've had some really bad natural disasters
here over the last few years.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
Well, you're right, man, And one of the things I've
been making phone calls myself. I've met with the insurance
folks bolts in the hills and out here on the
flat and one of the biggest things is we have
a third party group that determines whether or not you
get insurance in the fire areas, and it's based on
whether you've got mitigation done and a big one is

(22:33):
whether the county's done their part in the mitigation. So
the third party flies drones around and determines whether you
do or don't get in the insurance. Interestingly, with a
number of these insurance folks I met with, they showed
me pictures of a house that's in the forest, you
can barely see it. They got insurance. The guy out
on the flat that has nothing around his own didn't

(22:54):
get insurance. So there's a thereag problem there with how
it's determined. We've got to work together to do with that.
The other thing I'm finding is the insurance companies are
flat walking out of Colorado. Yeah, and that's even a
bigger problem. I had a family call me this past week.
They're an older couple. One they're having enough problems paying

(23:15):
their taxes, property taxes, but the house is paid off,
and they just they're not going to carry insurance at
all because they can't afford it because they were denied
four times with insurance.

Speaker 5 (23:27):
Wow. Wow, that stinks. I mean, that really stinks big time. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (23:35):
Oh that's awful.

Speaker 5 (23:37):
Okay, So that is not very heartening. And I do think, George,
that this is a serious problem. What are some of
the other issues that you've heard as you've walked around
the district that people are concerned about in Colorado right now?

Speaker 6 (23:52):
Well, you know, Anny, I'm couple in the criminal problem
or crime problem with the economy, and the easiest way
to real late.

Speaker 8 (24:00):
It is.

Speaker 6 (24:00):
The folks down here near my home at the Safeway
store are concerned about the fact that they're not allowed
to pursue the guy who walks in and walks off
with a grocery cart full of groceries. So then they
call law enforcement. Law enforcement says, well, that's been dumbed
down by the legislature to a misdemeanor crime. It's no

(24:21):
longer a felony, so we can make a deak report.
The clerk then says, well, I don't have the time
for that, so the report goes unreported. The district attorney
then says, well, crime's down, but it really isn't down,
it just hasn't been reported. And to go along with
the same thing, the legislature took qualified immunity for law enforcement.

(24:42):
So law enforcement officers no longer do proactive police work.
They wait for a call to come in.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (24:48):
So the complaint from my constituency is I never see
a police part and I get it having been a
cop for forty five years. This is going to be
the biggest problem for law enforcement in the state of
Colorado and the future, because if we're not going to
do proactive work, we're not going to solve the crime problem.
That's the cost of living goes up because the corporate

(25:08):
folks raise the prices because they're not getting reimbursed for
the folks and there's no consequences to the person who
commissed the crime.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
You know that. I just went to a public safety
forum in Douglas County, and Douglas County is in a
much better situation because they don't have staffing issues. The
citizens love them. Nobody in Douglas County is talking about
defund the police. What could you do at the state
level to help restore the respect and dignity of that

(25:38):
job and to make it an attractive profession for people
who want to serve Again.

Speaker 6 (25:45):
Well, one of the biggest things I lobby down there
two seventeen was built, so to speak, by my opponent
being one of those folks. When they took qualified immunity away.
A number of things happened. The folks that did good
law enforcement less and now we can't get officers to
apply from the job. So what ends up happening is

(26:06):
we lowered the standard. When you lower the standard, you
get a bigger problem because those folks are going to
be more inclined to cause a problem down the road
or have a problem, which now we end up paying
out that and so the public then sees, oh, the
cops really are bad when they weren't bad to start with,
right thing on stuff that happens outside of Colorado.

Speaker 5 (26:28):
So what do we do to fix that?

Speaker 6 (26:30):
Well, we've got to get qualified immunity number one install back.
You know, if we're going to play the qualified immunity game,
then should we take qualified immunity from the judges and
the district attorneys and nurses and anybody else that could
cause a problem. It's just not right. And you're putting
these folks on the front line making and they have

(26:51):
to make a decision to do something right away, and
then you're going to punish them for whatever the decision is.
So until we can back that off a little bit
and boost the crime level back up, you know, get
it to where we had it, so there's consequences for
the crime, we're not going to solve this.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
I agree. I agree wholeheartedly, George. I know it's the
last day, but I'm reminding people it's not too late
to vote. If you're in HD twenty five, you could
give George your vote, George, why should people vote for you?
Make your pitch.

Speaker 6 (27:22):
Well right now.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
Many.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
My whole deal is to be the voice of this community.
I've been their voice for forty five years. My whole
career in law enforcement was in Jefferson County, and I
built the juvenile Assessment Center that took people who didn't
ever want to talk together. We came together, built the
Juvenile Assessment Center, became a federal model. We dealt with
our juvenile issues in a positive way, and we had

(27:45):
positive results we made We became the federal model for
assessment centers across the country. I want to bring that
back to my constituents in twenty five and make sure
that they can feel that they can pick up the
phone and call me. Interestingly enough, the phone number that
I have is the same phone number I started as
a policeman with and talking of those cops. You can

(28:06):
still pick up my phone and I still answer it.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
Yeah, George, Mama, I appreciate your time. Best of luck
to you Tomorrow. Hopefully we'll have some good news, because
if we don't do something about these supermajorities the Democrats
have in the House and the Senate, the state is
just going to keep having issues that are all related
to the policies that have been passed by that same legislature. George, Mama,
thanks for your time today.

Speaker 6 (28:29):
Thanks made thanks for having me.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
All Right, have a great day. When we get back.
I've got a couple of things. I actually I'm going
to play this audio of our governor. And if you
don't believe that our governor is running for president, I
have exhibit a that proves you wrong. When we get back,

(28:52):
I will play for you Jared Polis gaslighting everyone in
Colorado who knows what the crime stats really are. You're
really going to want to hear this one. Heared Poulis
was on the newl Kavudo Show recently, and if you've
been feeling like maybe crime is up in Colorado, good news,

(29:13):
you're wrong. I'm not going to play this whole thing
because it just gets tiresome, but listen to this. If
you didn't think Jared Polis was running for president, this
should tell you everything you need to know.

Speaker 10 (29:25):
Right much attention of of course being paid attention to
what's happening at the border as well. That has become
a very big thing with Donald Trump and his remarks
all around the country, particularly his battleground states. I believe
he's planning to touch on it if he hasn't already
in North Carolina, certainly did in Pennsylvania. The big issue
is he's saying that that will all change if he's
elected president, and some of the things we see going

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on in Colorado, which he has claimed is rampant crime
being conducted by migrants, would stop as well.

Speaker 7 (29:53):
The governor of.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
The state he's talking about.

Speaker 10 (29:55):
With all of that, joins us right now, Dark Polis
to Colorado, the Democratic governor.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
A good to have you.

Speaker 10 (30:01):
I want you to respond be ause I haven't a
chance to talk to you, sir, since Donald Trump had
commented on what you are, in his words, allowing in
your state.

Speaker 7 (30:11):
This is from the former president.

Speaker 11 (30:13):
Have your weak and ineffective governor Jared Polish was doing
his job, he would be leading the fight to get
these gangs and thugs the hell out of Colorado. Now
that took over complexes and they have a radical left
to governor who's petrified. He doesn't want anything to do
with it. He's afraid. He's chicken. Okay, Governor, what did

(30:40):
you think of that?

Speaker 12 (30:42):
Well, on the one hand, I'm flattered that former presidents
talking about me.

Speaker 7 (30:47):
I've got inside his mind, and that's good.

Speaker 12 (30:50):
Secondly, I'm glad he's attacking, you know, people like Governor
Brian Kemp and me rather than his opponent. So it's
another example of him being off message, just like he
was today when he said he probably shouldn't have left
the White House after he lost the election in twenty twenty,
doubling down on being an election denier who tried to
overturn the vote of the American people.

Speaker 7 (31:08):
Truth is here.

Speaker 12 (31:08):
In Colorado. Crime is down two years in a row.
We're investing in law enforcement, in police.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
The city he visited, barely visited, just.

Speaker 12 (31:16):
Came over from the airport, went to offensive hotel and
went back. Great city in Colorado, Aurora. Crime is down there,
even more than the state average. It's economy's doing great.
We just celebrated another one thousand person plus employer coming in.

Speaker 10 (31:28):
You don't think there's any You don't think there's any
problem in Aurora. Governor, you don't think there's any problem
going on.

Speaker 7 (31:34):
Oh there's a crime.

Speaker 12 (31:35):
A crime is a problem nationally, and that's why we
need to elect a prosecutor like Kamala Harris will invest
in police, in law enforcement, like we hear in Colorado,
we've turned the tide.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Truth is, crime went up during.

Speaker 12 (31:45):
President Trump's last administration as president, and Kamala Harris is
the right person to fight it, invest in law enforcement,
and bring it down, which is just what we're doing
here in Colorado.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
Now. I'm going to stop it there because what he's
not saying is that essentially crime is still above where
it was when Trump left office. We talked about the
Common Sense Institute report last week, but I'll let them
continue to shild.

Speaker 10 (32:12):
But Governor, it isn't just Donald Trump's saying that's right.
At least six Colorado counties of file lawsuits against you
in the state because of an increase in that migrant grime,
and a lot of folks there are saying that this
is getting worried. Now, whether it goes to the extent
that that everyone's doors are getting broken down or some
of these gangs are collecting rent, I mean, there's a

(32:33):
maybe room for debate there, but this doesn't seem isolated
to some rants by Donald Trump.

Speaker 7 (32:39):
Right.

Speaker 12 (32:41):
Well, I think what you're talking about here is the
failure of both President Trump and President Biden to secure
the border. Kla Harry supports a bipartiesan plan to invest
in border security, make sure we get out and kick
out of the country foreign nationals who commit crime on
our soil we captured.

Speaker 10 (32:58):
I'm sorry, sir, but that's not the Colorado counties are
saying they're suing you. They're going after you and the
state because they say you've let them down.

Speaker 12 (33:11):
Well, again, the fact that people are here illegally is
because of the failure to secure the border, and that's
why we need to. Like Kamala Harris Colorado has he I'm.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
Just gonna stop there because it's just useless. He absolutely
ignored the question. Well, we've got to stop the border,
and Kamala Harris is gonna do it. Of course she
hasn't done it for the last three and a half years,
but she's gonna do it now. Bye, gush by Gully.
This kind of interview by the governor is exactly what
you do when you are trying to earn goodwill going

(33:41):
forward for your presidential run, when other governors of your
same party will be expected to go on Neil Cavudo
and lie about their states and your record to help
you become president. I mean, I wonder does he feel
dirty doing this? Selling his soul to the Democratic nomination?
Isn't it gross when you see it happen in real time?

(34:04):
It's disgusting to watch someone who used to come across
like he had a decent monicum of self respect be
reduced to this. Just when we get back, Yes, Trump
did say that he would be okay if somebody shot
through the press to get it him. But when we
get back, I'm not going to make an excuse because
it was a dumb thing to say, but I want

(34:26):
to remind you of what the press has been up to.
We'll do that next.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
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Speaker 7 (34:37):
No, it's Mandy Connell.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
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Speaker 5 (34:57):
Bab welcome, welcome U them to the second hour of
the program. Over the weekend, Donald Trump once again said
something inflammatory because it's what he does. It's what he does,
and it's like he knows, he knows that they're going
to pick up on this stuff and they're gonna make
Hay and this weekend, the Hay was Donald Trump saying that, Uh,

(35:24):
let me just read what he said. He said, I
have a piece of glass over here, and I don't
have a piece of glass there. He is at an
outdoor rally, and they have put a little three way
box of bulletproof glass around him because someone already shot
at him and tried to kill him. So you have
to take these measures. He said, I have a piece
of glass over here, and I don't have a piece

(35:44):
of glass there. And I have this piece of glass here,
But all we have really over here is the fake news,
pointing to the glass position between him and the head
on riser where the press was located. And then he
continued and to get me, somebody would have to shoot
through the fake news. And I don't mind that so much.
I don't mind that. So everybody's like, oh my god,

(36:07):
Donald Trump is saying that the media should be shot.
What he's saying is if someone was gonna shoot at him,
that would be the only shot they could make. Now,
it was a dumb thing to say, really really stupid
thing to say, but we're used to Donald Trump saying
stupid things. It's what they do, it's who he is.

(36:29):
This is the problem with trying to attack Donald Trump.
We all know exactly who Donald Trump is, but unfortunately
we have a candidate on the other side who is
so bad that those of us who even have reservations
about the man are so like, well, I gotta vote
for him. Can't handle another for more years of this
garbage jump in the White House. So yeah, we already

(36:50):
know who he is. But I want to point something
out to you, not in I'm not excusing what he said.
I'm not I'm not saying that it was the right
thing to say, or you know, you should wish death
on your enemies. That's not what I'm saying at all.
But can we review the last week of media coverage.
Let's just review the last week. Monday, the news media said,

(37:14):
well that's it. The comic Cooo appeared at the Trump
Madison Square Gardens rally. By the way, the rally that
was Nazi rally is going to decide the election. Obviously,
no one can vote for Donald Trump after a comedian
at his rally said that Puerto Rico was a giant
floating garbage jump. Tuesday, after Joe Biden clearly called Donald

(37:35):
Trump's survivor or supporters all garbage himself that the media
somehow found a phantom apostrophe that did not exist in
the sentence, but they had to run cover for Joe Biden.
Joe Biden didn't say they were his supporters were garbage. Yes,
he did. Clearly, I've watched the clip like thirty times.
He says Trump supporters are garbage. Wednesday, at another rally,

(37:59):
Donald Trump said I will protect women, whether they like
it or not. He was talking about from illegal criminals
who have been allowed to walk across the southern border,
who are doing things like raping five year old children
and murdering pretty women who have the nerve to go jogging.
He was talking about that. But the media, you know

(38:20):
what they did. They said he was referring to abortion rights,
not saving them from criminal illegal aliens. The media jumped
right in to make it sound like Donald Trump was
going to protect women from their own ability to choose
by doing something, but in reality, he was talking about
something completely different. On Thursday, Donald Trump in a longer

(38:44):
conversation about people who are jinguistic warmongers. Let's put Lindsey
Graham in this category. His old best friend John McCain,
huge warmonger. But you know who wasn't going to war.
Lindsey Graham and John McCain. They love to send other
people's kids to to wars that we have no business
being a part of. That was Thursday, they say Trump

(39:05):
wants to put Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad.
That's not at all what he said. He said war
pigs like Liz Janey, how would they feel if they
were standing on the other end of a firing squad
like the people they want to send to war? Put
the media Nope, that's not what happened. He wants to
put Liz Janey in front of a firing squad. Not
even remotely true. Friday Undecided, it's breaking for Kamala by

(39:29):
double digits. Oh please, Saturday. Kamala is winning Iowa. So
can you just begin to see why Donald Trump would
be frustrated with the way the media has been portraying
him in this campaign, especially in the last four weeks
since the joy wore off Kamala's campaign and she started

(39:49):
to falter. I want to play a little more audio
for you in this one. I am playing it in
its entirety. I even myself took out the curse word.
You'll hear it, because I don't have any beep to
put in. I just turn the volume off. But I did. Hey, hey,
I used to know producer things, Grant, I used to

(40:10):
know how to do stuff. I want you to hear
Greg Guttfel's tear on all of this because it is
so perfectly accurate.

Speaker 13 (40:20):
You know, but you're defending people who do just now.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
Right, that's the problem.

Speaker 13 (40:24):
You know What's interesting to Neil as always somehow the
rhetoric is worse than the deeds behind it. So it's
not when Trump says I want to protect women from
illegal violent offenders. It's not like I'm upset about the
illegal violent offenders. I'm upset over the rhetoric he used,
or a millionaire dead in the Ukraine Russian War because

(40:46):
we're funding it companies like Haliburton. Right, No, that's not
the thing that's outrageous. It's the rhetoric Trump uses when
he refers to warp pigs, because that's what they are,
to quote the Great Ozzy Osbourne. It's not until Trump
uses the inflammatory language that Democrats suddenly decide or discover

(41:09):
actually that there's an issue behind it.

Speaker 7 (41:12):
Do you think the.

Speaker 13 (41:12):
Democrats had any idea that there was a trash crisis
in Puerto Rico until a roastcomic made a joke about it.
Hell no, do you think all of these guys wringing
their hands, these famous Puerto Ricans are doing anything but
posting on Twitter.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
Are they doing anything to solve the trash crisis?

Speaker 4 (41:32):
No, they're not. They're not.

Speaker 13 (41:34):
And you can bet Trump probably will. He might say something,
but he will do something.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
The Liz Cheney hoax.

Speaker 13 (41:42):
Is predicated on your side thinking your voters are stupid
and lazy. You assume they will accept an out of
context quote and not look.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
Behind for the entire thought process.

Speaker 13 (41:55):
So Liz isn't just a liar and a cheat. She's
also playing along. She's well, she's a fabricator. The media
plays along with it because you know what.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
This is their side.

Speaker 13 (42:07):
This is why the mainstream media is dead.

Speaker 10 (42:09):
It's gone.

Speaker 13 (42:10):
You can you know what, you can put a nail
in this coffin. It ain't coming back after twenty twenty four.
It's white Liss Cheney. It's why Harris, it's why Waltz,
who just called Elon Musk gay. Probably didn't hear that
from the media, did you?

Speaker 4 (42:24):
But you heard it here.

Speaker 5 (42:25):
That's why they can't do podcasts.

Speaker 13 (42:27):
They can only survive in two minute bursts on CNN
and MSNBC because if they were in a situation where
somebody asked that follow up question or showed the clipping
in entirety, they'd be humiliated.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
For the posters they are.

Speaker 13 (42:41):
This is how you perpetuated the fine People hoax, the bloodbath, lie.

Speaker 7 (42:46):
The drinking bleach Again.

Speaker 13 (42:48):
It's time to put a coffin a nail in the
coffin of mainstream media.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
He's not wrong, he's not wrong about any of this.
You know, the mainstream media has done it to themselves,
and people have to say, well, donald Trump broke the
mainstream media. No, their reaction to Donald Trump broke the
mainstream stream media. But this has been this has been building,
this sort of this sort of media schism where they

(43:14):
have so separated themselves from real people, so separated themselves
that they no longer are are speaking to people who
are going to listen to them. So after this election,
I just got a text from a friend of mine
who lives in New York. She said, the tension in
this city is so thick you can cut it with

(43:37):
a knife and that's because it's a lot of Kamala
Harris supporters who are afraid she's gonna lose. What do
you think is going to happen if Kamala loses. Now,
if Trump loses, you know, everybody's gonna say, well, the
election was stolen. Watch the Kamala Harris voters say the
same thing if Kamala Harris loses. And maybe then maybe

(44:00):
if Kamala loses, we can actually have a serious conversation
about ensuring the integrity of our election system by going
back to a system that requires an in person vote
with an ID. That would be nice, very very nice. So, yeah,
this texter said there was no ambiguity whatsoever about what
he was saying. Mandy. He was implying he wouldn't mind

(44:21):
them being shot. I watched it, did you. The man's
mind is gone. I just said he said it. This
is an accurate representation of that quote. The problem is
is that the media takes so much other stuff out
of context that when they do get one right, it's
easy to say, well, that's probably not what he said
in the first place, because they leave out huge chunks

(44:44):
of what gives context to a lot of the outrageous
things that he says. There's no context to this one.
That's what he said. My point is is, at what
point do you as as a human being, as a candidate,
get so just ridiculously mistreated by the press. Think about
it like this, If you're not a Trump fan, this

(45:05):
should be so easy to understand. Look at this comment
right now, the comment about him saying he wouldn't mind
if they shot through the press to get to him.
He wouldn't mind it. Like, just take that one comment.
If you don't like Trump, do you think you can
find a million more comments like that that you don't
have to take out of context to make the man
look bad. But they go beyond. They take all these

(45:29):
other things out of context. And Greg Guttfeld is absolutely right.
The Democrat strategy is that voters will be too stupid
to go and check and see what was actually said.
And if you follow any of these people on Twitter
or Facebook or Instagram that are former left wingers who
have now become dedicated Trump supporters. The reason they all

(45:50):
say they became dedicated Trump supporters is because they started
to investigate the things that were said by the media
about Donald Trump and found them to be a lie.
That's the problem. Do you really have to exaggerate? Do
you really have to take things out of context unless
you think your candidate is going to lose? And the

(46:11):
media should not have any sort of feeling about whether
or not a candidate is going to lose as a group.
I mean the media. Sure, there's going to be individual reporters,
they're going to have feelings passionately for one candidate or
the other. At this point it's all Democrats, but whatever,
it's fine. But the media, as a hive mind, right,

(46:31):
as an entity, should not have a dog in the fight.
Jeff Bezos was right in saying, we are not going
to endorse a candidate because it doesn't change anyone's mind,
and we want to get back to those days when
we had unbiased news that people could trust. I mean,

(46:52):
come on this, Texter said Mandy. How many times can
the media cry wolf? I agree with you, And that's
what I'm talking about. This is why these attacks on
Donald Trump are just so dumb. They're so stupid. We
already know all this. We know he's not a guy
you want your daughter to marry, right, We know all
of this, and at the same time they have been

(47:15):
protecting Kamala Harris from answering difficult questions, from expanding on
any policy positions, from pressing her. I've seen one reporter
press her about her. Oh, I can't think of anything.
She literally said twice, I can't think of anything the
Biden administration has done that I would do differently. But

(47:37):
her campaign slogan is a new way forward. Those two things,
the cognitive dissonance of those two things should be overwhelming,
But the press is covering for her. As a matter
of fact, if you watch Saturday Night Live, if you're
one of the four or five hundred people that watch it,
you saw candidate Kamala Harris in a really sweet, endearing

(47:59):
sketch on Saturday Night that clearly violated the equal time
rules that Lauren Michael said earlier in the year he
would be adhering to. Now, in order to make it
up to Trump, they gave him some extra advertising in
a NASCAR race. Ooh, that should do it. I've never
experienced anything like this where the media has become a

(48:20):
Pravda like tool for one campaign. And you know, I
have a lot of friends who are journalists, you guys,
I have a lot of friends who work really, really
hard to bring great news balanced from every angle to
the people that consume their content, and to a person,
they are embarrassed by what their entire profession has become.

(48:44):
But at the same time they feel boxed in because
if you break from the dogma, then you are excommunicated.
I have a friend who I don't know if I know,
I'm not going to tell that story because I didn't
ask her. I had a friend who was at a
social event and she said, at this social event, everyone
was talking like it was just assumed that everyone was

(49:04):
going to vote for Kamala Harris and she did not.
And at the end of the social event, she said
something about to the effect of, well, you know, I'm
going to make a different choice. And she was like,
I was like, did they act like you pooped in
the punch bowl? She was like, kinda, KINDI did? It
is it is something we have to remedy. I say

(49:26):
this all the time. It's why I keep telling you, please,
please please subscribe to the Denver Gazette. Pay attention to
outlets like the Free Press. The Free Press will not
spoon feed you right wing talking points. Because the Free
Press was started by disaffected journalists who were tired of
having their stories edited and throttled by their editors, so

(49:48):
they started the Free Press, and it is probably doing
the best journalism that's happening right now. But if you're
looking for someone to spoonfeed you right wing talking points,
they're not going to do it. Guess what, They're not
gonna spoon feed you left wing talking points either. That's
what we need to seek out, that's what we must support.
At the same time, I canceled my New York Times

(50:10):
subscription and my Washington Post subscription. I sent an email,
you know, because I can, they give you a little
survey at the end, But I actually sent an email
to both editors and said, I just wanted you to
know this is why I quit. I gave them specific
examples that had come both out of news stories and
the editorial page of why I was canceling my subscription.

(50:32):
I mean one of them. The one to the Washington
Post was quite lengthy because I had a lot of examples.
Do you know what I got back from the editor
Thanks for giving us your opinion. No, hey, you know what,
We're gonna look into this or no, we're gonna No,
they're still in denial, So the only way is to
starve them to death while supporting other news outlets that

(50:52):
are doing a better and more balanced job. News Nation
is a great example. News Nation is probably the broadcast
network that I look at first when I'm looking for coverage,
although at this point I don't watch any television news.
I may watch snippets the next day online, but I'm
just reading. I mean, I'm just reading because it's just

(51:14):
so obnoxious to listen to a bunch of people who
hate me talk about policy positions that I like, as
if somehow I'm a Nazi because I want everybody coming
over the southern border to be vetted. I want them
to have to make sure that they can pay their
own way when they get here. I mean, and that

(51:36):
makes me a horrible person. It's not enough to say,
you know what, I disagree with that idea. Because of this,
you have to be called everything but a child of
God because you disagreed whatever the prevailing wisdom is. Mandy,
I'm so disgusted by the police clips. I wanted to
just scream the gall to blame Trump for the violence

(51:57):
and to promote Kamala as the one who will fix
the border. What the hell. Yeah, I know, Mandy, I'm
your agent. Even I've known this has been going on
since Reagan. Nothing new here, yep, yeah, Saine washing Donald
Trump is apparently a real phenomenon. What is sane washing?
Donald Trump is not insane, He's odd. He's a consummate

(52:22):
bs er. Think of him more as a showman like P. T. Barnum.
But the reality is, we already know how he presidents.
We already know what the Trump administration did. It gave
almost everyone a tax cut, It got the economy booming.
Had we not been hit by COVID, I think we'd
be in a really good place right now. We're in

(52:44):
a bit of a recovery mode. I will be the
first to admit I am shocked that we have not
had a recession. I'm shocked. I still think that the
housing market is in a very precarious place right now,
and so much of our economy. As the housing market goes,
so goes the ECONO. And people are like, no, those
things aren't connected, but they are. I have a lot

(53:04):
of clients who do home improvement. I have a lot
of clients who do things like sell beds. You know
when people do home improvements, and buy beds when they
buy a new home. So the slowdown in the real
estate market has had a negative effect on everything. So
we shall see. We shall see Mandy my weekend. She'll

(53:27):
CBS Sunday Morning is hardly worth watching anymore. I will
tell you I have watched CBS Sunday Morning since I
was about nineteen years old, and I gave it up
completely a few weeks ago because I'm just done. Apparently
the woman running it now, the executive producer, is a
staunch Democrat who came from Face the Nation, and she
has absolutely destroyed a show that I have loved for

(53:51):
over thirty years because she has made it all about
politics and only left wing politicians get on that show.
It's it used to be my favorite hour and a
half of the week, and now I don't give a
crap if it gets canceled. It's so bad and disheartening
and upsetting. And I've written emails and I've tried to
get the email of the actual executive producer. Can't find

(54:14):
it because I'd like to invite around the show. I
would invite around the show to just say, what have
you done? And why are you not getting that? This sucks?
And we all hate it when we get back. Funny story,
you guys. So even though according to Jared Pulis, as
we just played in the last hour, there's no crime

(54:37):
problem in Colorado, and according to a bunch of other politicians,
Trendy Aragua, it's not operating here except inconvenient truth. Two
Trendy Aragua gang members wanted for murder in Texas. We're
just apprehended in Aurora. We'll talk about that next. The

(54:57):
story that we should pay attention to because because nonetheless
we have to continue talking about the crime that the
governor said doesn't exist in Colorado. This story is a
good story in the sense that it is a story
about taking dangerous men off the street. Two men who

(55:20):
are allegedly members of the Venezuelan gang Trende Aragua, were
arrested by officials in Aurora in September. What did they
do while they're accused of the August murder of a
man named nil Zuli Enrique Arnaud Petit in Farmers Branch, Texas.
Two of the men whose names I'm not even gonna try, Bulevar, Zambrano,

(55:42):
Bolivar and Gonzales were arrested on September twenty sixth by
Denvers Immigration, Customs and Enforcements Enforcement and Removal Operations Team.
So they already have another guy that was arrested in
New Mexico and all have been rested in connection to
capital murder and aggravated kidnapping. So it's just a fun

(56:04):
story about gangs that don't exist in Colorado according to
the governor. But you know whatever, it's fine. So I
have multiple stories on the blog about something very important. Obviously,
this past weekend it was fallback and we got our
hour that the government stole in the spring back, which

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is nice, you know, nice to have an hour back.
Senator Marco Rubio texted out or tweeted out this as
Americans wake up this morning after changing their clocks again,
Congress should be reminded about passing my bill to lock
the clock once and for all on daylight saving time.
And then I have a couple of stories about the

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negative effects of daylight saving time. And according to let's
see Cynthia Ericson doctor Cynthia Rickson, she's a psychology associate
professor at Metro State. She said that even though we
got an extra hour sleep on Sunday morning, the effects
of daylight saving time can last far longer than just

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one night's sleep. Consistent sleep and wake cycles are important
for both mental and physical health. She said. Those cycles
are thrown off every time daylight saving time comes around.
The cycle is called your circadian rhythm. She said, we
go through about twelve hours of wakefulness and about twelve
hours of sleepiness. Light is the thing that helps us

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sink our twenty four hour cycles to the cues around us.
Now going on, I'd just like to ask anybody, you
can send me a text, you can say me too, whatever.
Who else woke up at their normal time on Sunday
morning an hour earlier? I woke up? What times you

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wake up yesterday? Grant six forty five? Is that what
time you normally wake up?

Speaker 7 (57:53):
Only got up because I had to run the Broncos game.

Speaker 5 (57:55):
Oh there you go. No, I normally wake up at
five am by myself, just wake up alarm?

Speaker 8 (58:02):
Who needs that when you're old? I did wake up
an hour earlier today.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
I woke up at four am Sunday morning, which is fantastic.

Speaker 7 (58:12):
Not anight.

Speaker 5 (58:13):
And you know who doesn't care about daylight saving time?

Speaker 7 (58:16):
Dogs?

Speaker 5 (58:17):
Yeah, chinks yep. Last night at like at like five
oh nine, she's like, she starts with the excuse me, excuse,
pardon me, excuse me. And when your dog weighs on
hundred and fifty pounds, it's a big deal, right, So
I actually had to go into a room and shut
the door, so I did not feed her this morning.

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She was Okay, shows you how dysfunctional Congress is when
five hundred and thirty five clowns can't agree on a time.
Great point, text her great point. I just want to
be done with it. I just I just want to choose.
I don't care. I don't just pick one. Everybody else can.
I will manage. I'll make myself work. I'll just make

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it work out for me. It'll be okay, Mandy. Do
other countries change the time spring and fall? Let's see
what countries we use the Google do not change time?
Change their clocks. Let's get change clocks because it isn't
changing time, it's just changing the clocks. Okay, daylight saving

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time by country. Most European countries.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
Do it.

Speaker 5 (59:38):
I'm looking to see where are the ones who don't
do it? Oh my god, and we've changed it a
million times, you guys, I'll just okay, listen to this.
So past observance of daylight saving time, countries have dabbled
for years, I mean dabbled observe. Let's look at Argentina.

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The last year of time change was two thousand and nine.
They observed daylight saving time in nineteen thirty nine to
nineteen sixty nine, then they brought it back in nineteen
seventy four. Then they had it again from nineteen eighty
eight to two thousand and then they add it again
from two thousand and seventy two thousand and nine. What what?
So this is not we think we would have been

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able to figure this out by now. Holy hell, it's
just nuts. But nobody stays on daylight saving times? Do
any countries stay on daylight daylight saving time? Okay, let's
see this. Only about a third of all countries observed

(01:00:44):
daylight saving time. Well, this is interesting. Let me pull
this up. Let me see what year this is. So
this is from twenty twenty four, So this is this year.
The practice was established by the Standard Time Acting in
nineteen eighteen. Blah blah blah. Are there any states that
don't observe it? Hawaii and most of Arizona don't observe

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it is the US the only country that does this. No,
most countries observe of some version of summertime, according to
the Department, in the Northern Hemisphere most of the countries
that observe daylight saving time or in Europe and North America.
Though other countries observe a version of daylight saving time,
not all do so on the same schedule as the US.

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There are also Southern Hemisphere countries that observe some version
of daylight saving time, but below the equator, the seasons
are swapped, so the start and end date of their
summertime is reversed from ours. According to the Pew Research Center,
only about a third of all countries observed daylight saving
time at one point. About half of all countries observe

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the practice, but no longer do, so there you go.
The Senate has passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would
make daylight saving time per minute year round, and the
House has not taken it up. Why not? The Republicans
control the House. Experts say that using daylight saving time

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year round could reduce the number of traffic accidents and
the amount of crime, but a number of experts aren't
in favor of permanent daylight saving time. That's because the
sun should reach the highest point at the sky at noon,
according to sleep experts, which is known as solar time. Ugh,
I don't care, I don't care. Just pick one, Just

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pick one and stay there? Is that too much to ask?
What is happening? Why? Although I did sleep like a
log last night, so there's that, there's that that positive.
Why would Alaska observe daylight saving time when they already
have eighteen plus hours of sunlight in the summer, In
the middle of summer, there are parts of Alaska that
have twenty four hours of sunlight, if not direct sunshine.

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One of my favorite pictures I've ever taken with the
panoramic feature. My camera was in Alaska, off of the
side of our ship we were on and I got
in the panorama. On the left side I had the
moon rise and on the right side I had the sunset,
and it was It's a beautiful, beautiful picture, just beautiful.

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Mandy five Am, my sixteen and a half year old
Maltese mix will be up on Sunday as usual. Love
her despite and still I know, Donna, they just don't
understand it. Mandy, I like this time because I can
duck hunt before work. Well, I mean that's maximizing your
I mean, you could just show up late for work

(01:03:39):
if we switched, that's always an option. Now when we
get back, got two animal stories, one about bears, one
about those wolves. You know what. They put those wolves
in northern Colorado and said you stay here, and the
wolves were like, la la, la la, I'll tell you

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where they are now. Right after this, we are moving
through a very busy broadcast day. But fear not, there's
lots of fun stuff on here as well. We haven't
even talked about Peanut and Fred rip Peanut and Fred
or on that later. So a couple of stories. Number one,
some of the newly reintroduced gray wolves have made their

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way south of I seventy. Welcome to Leadville Wolfies. Now,
Colorado Parks and Wildlife said, look, okay, our biologists knew
that this was going to happen because wolves don't stay put,
you know, they move around. But now we have colored
gray wolves south of I seventy and the agency is

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tracking seven of the wolves because three have already died.
And they're basically like, hey, we knew this was going
to happen, but if you're a rancher in that area,
good luck to.

Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
The state.

Speaker 5 (01:05:03):
By the way, is giving livestock dogs to livestock owners.
I guess that's one of the things where they're trying
to help. But the wolves are already they're already reproducing.
So the little baby wolves do pups, I guess they're
called pups, Yes, little baby wolves. They don't have colraon,

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So we're only tracking the original wolves. And by the way,
they're trying to bring in more wolves because that's what
we need here in Colorado. I can hardly wait until
we have wolf stories like the bear story I have here.
This year, there have been, according to Colorado Parks and
Wildlife and above average number of bear conflicts and sightings

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in the state compared to previous years. The agency has
received four six hundred and forty four bear reports between
January first and November first this year. That's a significant
increase from the three thy four hundred and fourteen reports
during the same period. So they're an estimated seventeen thousand
to twenty thousand bears in Colorado, and most reports involve

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bears trying to access human food. So here's the issue.
That you need to know because for the first time,
we've been in our house for going on eleven and
a half years now and we had never seen a
bear until this year. This year, we had a bear
in our neighborhood. And what people need to understand is
it's not a nothing thing when they get into your garbage,

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because once a bear is decided to be a nuisance bear,
they can be relocated one time. If you see a
bear in your neighborhood that has a green tag in
its ear, it has already been relocated once and if
it starts to cause problems, it is going to be destroyed.
And that's the thing that I try to help everybody understand.
It may seem like, oh, it's a pain that the

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bear got into our garbage, but really it's no big
deal and they're going to hybrid it. It is a
big deal. Anything that puts bears in immediate contact with
humans and where humans live is a problem, and bears
become nuisance bears because they realize where the easy payoff
is and that's your garbage. Can So please, if you

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live in an area that could have bears, which honestly,
I'm gonna be perfectly Frank, I did not know that
I lived in an area that could have bears, but
we caught it on our cameras outside and super cute.
By the way, it's like seeing a bear in your
yard is super cute. But then the age old question,
does a bear poop in your yard? The answer is yes,

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it did a large poop. And I have a sat Bernard,
so I feel like poop size assessment is one of
my specialties. I was walking the dog one day and
I already had a bag of poop. I wear this like.
I call it my dork belt because I don't really
have a good name for It's one of those running
belts that has a pouch in the back and it

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holds two water bottles because during the summer, if we
walk far enough, I have to stop and give drink.
I have to give Jinks a drink. She gets hot.
I mean, she's a big, fat, furry dog and so
she gets hot, and so I have a bowl in there.
It's really and I have little poop bags and everything.
So I also have a bag that when I pick
up a poop bag, I put it in there till
I get to place where I can throw the poop
bag away, and I'm walking and she had already done

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her business, and this guy is walking this littler dog
and somebody had let their dog poop on the path
that we were walking on, right right in the middle
of the path, you know. So he's like looks at
me and he's like, did your dog leave this here?
And I was like, do you see the size of
this dog? Do you think it's going to make a
tiny poop like that? And he started laughing. I'm like,

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I do have the larger poop in my bag. If
you'd like to see what an actual Saint Renard poop
looks like. Heat passed on that. But bear poop's even bigger.
So though it is kind of cool to see wildlife
in your neighborhood, I have now seen a bear and
a mountain lion in my neighborhood. And that's enough. I'm

(01:09:06):
fine without seeing either of those things because frankly, I
don't want them to get used to humans. I don't
want them to get, you know, become nuisances, because I
don't want them to die. It's really that simple.

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
Same thing.

Speaker 5 (01:09:18):
When I lived in Florida and people would move there
and they think it was super fun to feed the
alligators in the pond, and I would just look at
them and say, you are signing that alligator's death warrant.
Stop doing that. Do not feed the animals. And I
make one exception. We have a family of bunnies that

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live in our yard, and we do give them some snacks.
I'm not gonna lie. I feel like, you know that
when I should get a pass on. But they're so cute.

Speaker 4 (01:09:49):
Great.

Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
Have you ever seen a baby bunny in the wild
or in your yard? Oh? Yeah, they're like they're like
little ping pong ball size bunny when they're born, and
they yes and little tiny ears and and they hop out,
and you're like, don't get eaten by anything, you know,
like get back in. We also have foxes that often
eat the bunnies, which is why I don't feel so

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bad about feeding the bunnies. Do not feed the bears.
Do not feed anything with teeth bigger than yours. I
think that's a good strategy. We'll just employ that going forward.
When we get back, let's talk about Peanut for a moment,
shall we The devastating story that has taken on a
life of its own about a little squirrel wasn't bothering

(01:10:30):
anybody until the State of New York murdered him.

Speaker 7 (01:10:34):
We'll do that next.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
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Speaker 7 (01:10:42):
No, it's Mandy Connall.

Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
God they.

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
Mandy com keeping it your rent sat Bay. Welcome, well
for welcome to the third hour of the show. I
would like to thank the Texter who just said Mandy
before you got here. The voters decided to limit bear hunting,
and I looked it up and you are correct. Colorado
Amendment ten was on the ballot as an initiated state

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statute in Colorado November third, nineteen ninety two. It won overwhelmingly.
It prohibited the use of dogs or bait black bears
and prohibited black bear hunting between March first and September first.
Is it a coincidence that now we have more bears
in the urban rural interface. I don't know, but maybe

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I'll get somebody from Colorado Parks in Wildlife on to
talk about it, because that's very similar to what we're
about to do. It's a Mountain wine band and I
got to tell you I have friends who are working
on the no campaign.

Speaker 4 (01:11:52):
For that.

Speaker 5 (01:11:53):
The Yes campaign is playing all on emotion and their
commercials are really powerful, and I'm afraid that that is
going to pass. And then we are going to have
more mountain lions in the urban rural interface and maybe
in the urban interface, because mountain lions like to walk everywhere.
And I gotta tell you, there's nothing more disconcerting than

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being outside of your house at night, standing there admiring
how beautiful the sky looks. And then you hear this
now and you're like, I have to back up, and
I have to go inside and hope that thing is
not between me and my house. So there you go. Okay,
it's time to talk about Peanut. You guys. We talked
about this a little bit on Friday because it was

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revealed on Friday that a little squirrel that had been
made Internet famous by his parents. Oh yes, is that
it's actual audio of Peanut before he was murdered by
New York State, doing fun squirrel things with his human parents,
who found him on the street as a tiny baby
after his mom got smushed by a car in New

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York City. They tried to rehab the baby squirrel then
try to release him, but he came back and he
was injured, and they knew that if he had put
him out of the world again, he would just be
savagely ripped apart by some other animals, so they took
him in and in the last seven years they've made
tons and tons of money off of off of Instagram
page to get devoted to Peanut, some jealous, horrible hag

(01:13:20):
of a person decided to call the cops on Peanut
and his family. They raided the family's home last weekend
and within three days they murdered Peanut. They said it
was because Peanut pit someone and they had to test
Peanut for rabies, except there are no recorded cases of
a human being getting rabies from squirrels. They don't generally

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have rabies. Huh, imagine that now. What's happened since last
Friday when the death of Peanut and by the way,
his friend Fred, who apparently didn't bite anyone, but they
had to kill both Peanut and Fred to ensure that
Peanut didn't have rabies. I don't know how that was
explained away, but Peanut Fred are dead and now the

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internet has responded. And I don't care if you've never
been to my blog before, make today the day you go,
because I gathered up some of the best tweets about
Peanut and they are absolute magic. Now, I don't want
to make light of this. I am making light of
it because ultimately it's a squirrel. But the Internet has

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responded by saying things like, this is what you vote
for when you vote for Kamala Harris. You vote for
big government. You vote for government that comes in, stops
all over your rights, destroys your family structure, and takes
an innocent little squirrel that had been happily living inside
for seven years and ripped him away from the only

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home he had known. My favorite, and people are using
AI to create images of Peanut and Fred. My favorite
is one that shows the White House situation room. Remember
the famous picture of them going in to get Osama
bin Lauden and Hillary Clinton's sitting there, She's got her
hand over his mouth and Obama's leaning forward and it

(01:15:12):
says white House monitoring the operation to arrest Peanut. And
somebody's responded with an AI generated image of Fred the
raccoon wearing like a tactical pack and Peanut strapped up
with it, you know, an ak and it just says,
next time they'll be prepared. But this has oddly become

(01:15:35):
this weird rallying cry. Look right now I'm watching Inside
Edition is on in one of the studio TVs, and
they're literally the headline is who ratted out Peanut? Now,
there was some people who had who had directed attention
online to some woman, but we don't I don't think

(01:15:56):
it was her. I don't know if it was her.
I do not know, but God, I hope it I
if it isn't her, I feel terribly sorry for the
woman that has now been blamed for the murder of
Peanut when there's no one to blame but the state
of New York. This is yet another instance where you like,
talk to your kids. This is what government overreach looks like.

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First of all, this man and his wife, they have
a beautiful kind of ranch where they do animal rescue.
They rescue horses and they take care of animals, and
they use Peanuts' Instagram account to direct people to donate
money to their animal reserve, and they also used it
to direct people to their OnlyFans page. And apparently they

(01:16:44):
bought this beautiful ranch with their OnlyFans money. Guess how
much they made in one month? Just take a just a.

Speaker 7 (01:16:51):
Shot on this two hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:16:54):
Well, they bought an eight hundred thousand dollars home with
their earnings from one month. I have no idea eight
hundred grand at least because that's what they paid cash
for this house. They think there's a bit of jealousy
going on, and maybe that was caused by that. That
was the reason that they called the police on people. Oh,

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they're showing a little video. He's wearing a little hat. Grant,
Peanut's get a little ball cap on. He's got a
little top hat. He eats waffles. Oh, he's got a
little paddle like he's going to go in a little canoe.

Speaker 7 (01:17:28):
Well he's not doing any of those things.

Speaker 5 (01:17:29):
No, Now he's going right to the dirt nap, eternal
dirt nap for Peanut. But what I was saying about
this taking some weird life of its own, it's almost
become this strange rallying cry, at least on Twitter among
and I looked at him, was posting these things among
mostly young men who are taking this and running with it.

(01:17:51):
I mean, it's it's worth it's worth doing a little
dive on x to see the clever ways that people
have come up to immortalize Peanut, because some of them
are extremely creative. I'm watching a video right now. It
starts out showing a burning building with the Empire State

(01:18:11):
Building behind it could be from nine to eleven, and
it says it wasn't always like this, And then it
shows soldiers holding a little brown squirrel and it says
they arrested Peanut, found him guilty. He's got a little
orange jumpsuit on, and then he's got a needle and
murdered him. And the people rioted. They've got signs for Peanut.

(01:18:36):
The chaos spread, cities are on fire. Now we all have.
All we have are memories of Peanut. Never forget Peanut,
Never forget. We'll be back after this. I have a
long story on the blog today why I don't have
the whole story, but I have it linked. Today we've

(01:18:58):
talked a little bit about the the San Jose State
women's volleyball team that has a biological male trans woman
on it. Her name is Blair Fleming, and Blair has
been absolutely dominant in Division One play this year and
has led the San Jose State University Spartans to the

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best record they've had in a very very long time.
Part of that is because teams keep forfeiting their matches.
Part of it is because Blair is so physically more
powerful than the actual women playing on the team and
against them that she has a tremendous physical advantage. Well,

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the team itself has had one player come out and
speak about it, and she has been Her name is
Brooks Lusser. Brook is the setter for the volleyball team,
and the setter is just really the most important role

(01:20:03):
on the floor because the center is the one that
sets up the ball for the attacker who is then
going to spike it over the next something that Blair,
being a biological man, obviously can jump higher and hit
harder than any of the women that she is playing against.
So Brooks Lesser is the setter, and she has publicly

(01:20:27):
expressed concerns about San Jose State's policies that have been
not only sort of tamping down actual women but also
an extremely preferential to the trans women on the team.
Now we have a second voice from San Jose State
breaking their silence. Melissa Baty Smooth is associate head coach

(01:20:50):
of the SGSU women's volleyball team. She has filed a
thirty three page sworn declaration with officials at SJSU, the
Mountain West Conference, and the NC DOUBLEA asking these bodies
to invite or to investigate. And these are the things
she's listed. Number one, the overt favoritism that she believes

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her school has shown to Fleming at the expense of
Fleming's eighteen female teammates. Number two the unsettling measures that
SJSU officials have allegedly taken in order to suppress expressions
of concern from the affected women. She filed this with

(01:21:32):
the school, with the Mountain West and with the NC
Double A and was promptly suspended the next day from
her job. And Quilette did a really deep dive on this,
and some of the things that were reported were not
very cool. As a matter of fact, when she was
hired as a coach, no one told her that they

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had a transgender player, but in practice it rapidly became
apparent that Blair Fleming is by iologically a man, and
the coach immediately got concerned about this, But any concerns
that were expressed were absolutely shut out by Laura Alexander,

(01:22:13):
an assistant director of Student wellness at SJSU with jurisdiction
over the school's volleyball program. According to the coach, The
other coach we'll get to him, later told her that
Alexander had said anyone opposed to Fleming's inclusion on the
women's team should just leave SJSU and seek therapy. She

(01:22:36):
also reports that the coach began be bending over backwards
to accommodate Blair Fleming, who reportedly often took liberties with
the team's dress code and practice schedule, as well as
baseline behavioral standards that the coach applied to the rest
of the team. The claim double standard is the major
theme of this complaint. Listen to this one. Ah, dang

(01:22:57):
it out of time here, You've got here what this
player did at CSU. There is a CSU connection here.
While playing CSU, a San Jose State University trans woman
conspired with the attacker on CSU to specifically attack one

(01:23:18):
of her teammates. We're gonna talk about that next San
Jose State University women's volleyball team, on which trans player
Blair Fleming plays. And I had a couple of you
on the text line text me some variation. I am
calling her she and you're like, that's a he Here's
the thing, you, guys. I don't want someone to hear

(01:23:40):
me talking about this story and get caught up miss
gendering someone and use that as an excuse to downplay
the underlying story. Because it's bad. It's really bad. Not
only has the team setter spoken out Brooks Flusser also
now one of the associate the associate head coach has

(01:24:02):
now filed a request that the NCAA investigate the overt
favoritism shown to Blair Fleming. I want to read this
part because it has a Fort Collins element to it.
Perhaps the most unsettling set of alleged events described in
Baty Smooth as She's the Assistant Head Coach. Title nine
complaint unfolded in Fort Collins, Colorado in advance of the

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Spartans third of October twenty twenty four match against the
CSU Rams. In an obvious dig at Slessor, who at
the time had only just gone public with her concerns
about Fleming, the CSU facilities announcer declared the event to
be an inclusive excellence volleyball game. The Spartans were put

(01:24:45):
further on edge later that day, when Slusser's roommate received
the above reference social media threat advising her to distance
yourself from Brook tomorrow at the game. It will not
be good for her now. Brooke is a teammate of
transplayer Blair Fleming. The coach learned of the message after
checking in to the team's local hotel and began making

(01:25:07):
inquiries to ensure the team members were safe. It was
at that moment, the coach reports that the team learned
Fleming had left the hotel, which is not allowed. It
was subsequently learned that Fleming had been accompanied by another player,
whom I'll referred to as Kim as she prefers to
remain publicly anonymous. Their destination the residents of CSU's right

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side hitter, Malaya Jones, against whom Fleming would directly line
up in the next day's match. During that match, Beaty's
of the coach claims in her title nine complaint, Fleming's
play style was bizarre. Fleming defied her coach's instructions by
allowing Jones on the opposite team an unhindered diagonal hitting

(01:25:51):
lane that exposed slesser to kills. The coach also reports
that she repeatedly saw Fleming laughing together with Jones after
the latter targeted Slusser in this manner. Fleming's behavior was
reportedly so strange that even the head coach expressed concern
and took Fleming aside for a one on one talk

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that did nothing to change the behavior of the man
who is a trans woman playing on sjsu's team. By
the way, SJSU lost the match in straight sets, their
first loss of the season, because Blair Fleming would rather
help the opposing team shoot kill shots and her enemy

(01:26:35):
on her team than actually play and win the game.
And you know what happened to her? Nothing, nothing happened.
You know how she was punished for leaving the hotel.
Not at all. You know how the coaches found out
about this. The other player came to the office to
confess what had happened, so Fleming through the match and

(01:27:00):
what had happened to her nothing, nothing at all. In
the meantime, players that are expressing concern about playing with
a man on a women's volleyball team are told they
need therapy and that they should just quit school. The
head coach, by the way, he's a piece of work.
I mean he is a piece of work. And we
have to take into account that a coach's job is

(01:27:24):
only as safe as their record.

Speaker 7 (01:27:26):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:27:27):
If you are losing coach, there's a good chance that
you are going to be fired. Todd Kress is the
head coach of this volleyball team. And though he was
a little uncomfortable at first because no one told him
that he had transplayer on the team, once he realized
that he could win by having a man who believes
he's a woman on the team, he's all in. He's

(01:27:47):
telling other players that it's their problem. They're homophobic, they're
transphobic if they have any problem with this. And he
did nothing, absolutely nothing to discipline Blair Fleming, which she wrote,
broke all kinds of team rules through a match at
the NCUBLEA. She was accused of gambling on that match.

(01:28:08):
You better believe they would care. But just because she
set up her teammate to be targeted by the best
attacker that CSU had, that's fine, by the way, The
team SGASU. On October twenty fourth, Peter Limb, the San
Jose State University Athletic Department's interim Title nine and gender

(01:28:32):
Equity Officer, was summoned to deliver a ninety minute presentation
to a Spartans audience in which he explained that trans
identified athletes such as Flemings are members of a protected
class under Title nine's provisions. Three days later, it's just so,
it's so bad, it's so gross, it's so gross, and

(01:28:55):
the NCAA has to do something about this situation. That
cannot allow this to continue. They just can't. And it
gets even better with Title nine abuses. I've got another
story about a guy named Houston Porter. Houston Porter is

(01:29:16):
a twenty eight year old law student at Pace University.
He is a semester and a half away from graduating.
He is a member of the Federalist Society. The Federalist
Society is a conservative organization that has this thing where
they believe in the Constitution. I know, crazy, right whatever.
They sponsored a conversation, a panel discussion about saving women's sports.

(01:29:39):
He was co moderating this panel discussion. A lot, a
lot of trans students came to the event. He was excited.
He thought that it would be a great conversation starter,
that they could have a really good discussion about this
saving women's sports. About two dozen students plus two faculty

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members attended, and they were there not to have a discussion,
but to raise hell and create a problem. For the
first forty five minutes the panel, which had a constitutional
lawyer and two Republican state Senate candidates, it was civil
with a few interruptions, but then Houston Porter opened the

(01:30:20):
floor for questions and all of a sudden, people are
running up to the stage, yelling, causing problems and yelling
things at all the panelists. Now here's where it gets
really really interesting. After the event was over, nine days later,
Houston Porter gets a notification letter on his phone. He

(01:30:44):
opened the email and saw an attachment from Bernard Duframe,
the school's Title nine coordinator, stating that Houston Porter is
being investigated for a potential act of sex based discrimination
against a transgender student who attended the event. The charge
are you ready for this?

Speaker 4 (01:31:03):
Do you know what?

Speaker 5 (01:31:03):
He's been accused of aggressively pointing at a transgender student
and then purposefully referring to her as a man in
front of classmates, law school faculty, and administrators and guests.
He now faces a disciplinary hearing that could result in
community service, suspension, or even expulsion. Now, in his defense,

(01:31:29):
He's like, I have no idea what this persus is
talking about, no clue, none whatsoever. But it doesn't matter
because trans people must be not only believed, they must
also be accommodated, regardless of everyone else in the room
that does not want them to be competing in women's
sports because they have a biological advantage that women cannot overcome.

(01:31:51):
They must have their feelings managed and kept in a
safety deposit box where no one is allowed to say
anything that they could perceive as ups If you want
to be accepted in society, grow a pair. I mean, well,
they've already never mind, that was a bad analogy. Tough
en up, Buttercup, how about that one? Because the real, big,

(01:32:13):
bad world, we all take our slings and arrows. Trust me,
I've had my share. I'm so tired of the coddling
of an entire group of people that have upset everything
across the world because they decided they wanted to use
different pronouns and they want to be the opposite gender,
which biologically they cannot do. They can change the way
they look, they can change the way their faces appear,

(01:32:36):
their voices appear, they can change all of that, but
biologically they are still going to be a man or
a woman whatever their chromosomes tell them they are, and
yet they have managed to throw everything into chaos. If
you had told people ten years ago, hey, now we'll
go how old were you twenty years ago? Twenty? What

(01:32:57):
if I'd said to you, hey, grant, you know it
would be a cool idea, we should let men who
think they're women play in women's sports. What would you
have done?

Speaker 10 (01:33:05):
Hell?

Speaker 5 (01:33:06):
Nice, You would have laughed. You would have laughed because
it was so dumb, right, it was so absurd, Like
why do we have all this title nine? Why do
we have all these laws? Why do we have any
of that? We don't need that. It's fine, go right ahead,
go right ahead. I believe my alma mater forfeited to
San Jose said this Texter first to do so. Do

(01:33:26):
they get any credit for this? I don't think so.
They are beginning of movement of women athletes that are
standing up to say no more. They're the shots fired
at Lexington. They're the first group to be brave enough
to say this is not okay, and we are not
going to put ourselves in physical danger by playing against
someone who is so much physically stronger than all of us. So,

(01:33:52):
I mean, I feel like the tide is turning. I
feel like the tide is turning and we have to
do something, but it has not let more men in
women's sports. This Quillette article, by the way, that I
have linked for the other story, hang on. I want
to find this really really quickly because they write about
do it's really long, so I want to see if

(01:34:14):
I can find it. Okay, there's a man who has
declared himself a woman to compete in four different sports.
I mean, that's okay. You just you just let a
guy just just say okay, fine, you're gonna say that's okay.

(01:34:35):
I just I don't know. It's all really frustrating, and
in the last fifty years, we've gone from women fighting
to have women's sports funded at all to being told
that if you don't like a man playing on your team,
you need therapy. What the is going on? It's just crazy.

(01:34:57):
I'll tell you what's going on right now. What's going
on is that we're going to give away another pair
of tickets to see the Atlanta Falcons play the Denver Broncos.
That is happening on November seventeenth, it's going to happen
in power Field at mile High. This is all from
the official home of the Broncos Kawa Now one of
my favorite people that happens to work here sometimes with

(01:35:20):
Broncos Country. Tonight, Nick Ferguson has a Georgia connection caller
number one who can tell us what school Nick played
the majority of his college career at. Wins two tickets
to see the Atlanta Falcons play. We've got one more
pair before the end of the hour, so stick around,
stick around for that. Three oh three seven one, three
eighty five eighty five, make it happen. Now, I've got

(01:35:42):
a couple more stories that I want to get to
on the blog. All of these stories, by the way,
are on the blog, plus all of those cool, amazing
tweets about Peanut from the internet that we're so entertaining,
so so entertaining. Now we've lost a music great. Quincy
Jones has passed away. Quincy Jones. You know, I was

(01:36:05):
reading Quincy Jones his uh oh bit information and I'm
not gonna lie. He was ninety one years old when
he passed. That's a good run. I was really happy
to read someone's obituary that didn't have some kind of
scandal in it. Now, I think he might have enjoyed
avoided the scandal by being born early enough that he

(01:36:29):
didn't get caught up in it because he was a
noted horn dog for much of his life. But he
was also incredibly talented, worked with so many people to
make so much great music. So Rip Quincy Jones, Rip Quincy,
Rip Panut, Rip Fred the Raccoon. If you don't know

(01:36:51):
what I'm talking about, you really do need to go
to the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. You really really do. Now,
last story before we go, couple of If you love
the wine you know game Colorado wine as much as
I do, you're gonna want to read this story about
who won the twenty twenty four Governor's Cup for the

(01:37:11):
Best Wine. And what's funny is the big winner is
from a brewery. Yeah, obc Odell Brewing Company Wine Project
in Fort Collins took the cup with its twenty twenty
three Colorado Red. Now, a lot of wines that we've
talked about on the show also got a gold Cup.

(01:37:33):
There were fourteen double gold winners Carbono Wineries on this storm, Seller,
Peach Fork, sabaj Spectrum. These are all wineries we've talked
about on the show. So if you want to find
out more about Colorado wine and actually buy some, please
read that article and go ahead and get that grant.

(01:37:53):
What language did you speak at your wedding?

Speaker 7 (01:37:56):
What language?

Speaker 5 (01:37:57):
What language? English? Boring? I have two videos on the
blog because it's been a really intense show. Tomorrow's the
election we all wanted to be over with. I have
two videos on the blog that you need to go watch,
so if you just need a palette cleanser. One of
them is dogs jumping and leaves. Do I need to
say anything else? Dogs jumping and leaves and their dad

(01:38:17):
breaks up a big pile just for them to jump into,
as he should. Exactly, why wouldn't you write? It's like
we had snow on my deck last night, so Chuck
already scooped it all over to one side so Jinx
can sit on it. If you look at his Facebook page,
you can see her sitting on her little pile of snow.
Our dog doesn't like leaves, she likes snow. And then
the other video that I have on the blog today

(01:38:39):
is a bride who married a man of Armenian descent,
and she busts out her vowels in Armenian. She doesn't
speak Armenian. She learned Armenian just so she could do
her vowels, and his Armenian parents and his Armenian family
could hear that she was committed to helping keep his
Armenian face heritage alive.

Speaker 7 (01:39:01):
That almost makes me want to cry washing it.

Speaker 5 (01:39:04):
I'm not gonna lie. I was like, oh God, I
just spoke English. No, Chuck doesn't care. It's really really
good though, And the groom is just a mess, just
like came unglued because the Yeah, your your emotions are
just all over the place when you get married. Anyway,
it's so good, it's so good. The wine Yogi has

(01:39:26):
waged in. She is unhappy with the winner because she
feels there are better wines.

Speaker 8 (01:39:32):
I bet that's a common sentiment amongst a lot of
Colorado wines.

Speaker 5 (01:39:37):
Yeah, so she is not. How come you're not talking
about the election today?

Speaker 4 (01:39:42):
Really?

Speaker 5 (01:39:42):
I talked about it for like an hour at least
on the show. But I mean, what do you guys
want me to say about the election today other than
my God, it'll be over tomorrow. Okay? Yeah, yeah, did

(01:40:03):
Fred bite the officers as well. And if not, why
was he killed? He was killed the raccoon because New
York is a totalitarian dictatorship under Governor Kathy Hokeel and
it's a horrible place to live. I'm just kidding.

Speaker 7 (01:40:16):
It's not.

Speaker 5 (01:40:17):
I mean it kind of is, but not really. New
York is one of my favorite places to visit. Let
me just say that to visit. All right, are the
boys out and about today? Where are they.

Speaker 7 (01:40:27):
Down at the Sporty Pickle joining us?

Speaker 5 (01:40:31):
Excellent? So we've got Sporty Pickle today for KOA Sports.
You're definitely gonna want to tune in for that. Stop by,
get a beer, hang out. But now it's time for
the most exciting segment on the radio of its oh wait,
of its kind, sorry a rod in the world, the

(01:40:52):
question where was worthy of what I gave you? I
gave you a.

Speaker 4 (01:40:55):
Very way I know, can you believe it?

Speaker 5 (01:40:58):
I'm wearing black today to to make you know, to
like represent to Oh God, I grabbed a green pen.
That's terrible.

Speaker 7 (01:41:07):
What's wrong with a g I like.

Speaker 5 (01:41:08):
Writing in a green pen? I want blue, I want black.
I'm anything against green. I don't want a green pen.
It's hard for me to read.

Speaker 4 (01:41:16):
That's weird.

Speaker 5 (01:41:17):
What is our dad joke of the day please?

Speaker 7 (01:41:19):
Bad joke of the day today.

Speaker 8 (01:41:21):
I gave my handyman a to do list, but he
only did jobs one, three, and five.

Speaker 7 (01:41:25):
Turns out you'll get d jobs.

Speaker 13 (01:41:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
What is our word of the day please.

Speaker 8 (01:41:34):
Word of the day today? Amalgamate A M A L
G A M A T E.

Speaker 5 (01:41:40):
Doesn't that mean to bring everybody together to like make
us one?

Speaker 10 (01:41:44):
You am?

Speaker 4 (01:41:45):
I like the opposite of that definition. That's my guess.

Speaker 7 (01:41:47):
Well, you're right, you're wrong, and I'm right.

Speaker 8 (01:41:49):
What is it to unite two or more things into
one thing?

Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
Yeah, you can amalgamate companies and make them into a
bigger company. Here's another word question. What does the obscure
noun I nestice mean A C N E S t
I s acnes.

Speaker 4 (01:42:05):
That's Harry Potter spell. I'm not entirely that's.

Speaker 5 (01:42:09):
That's legit that that's just giving acne to someone else.

Speaker 4 (01:42:12):
Correct.

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
It actually means the part of the back that an
animal can't reach to scratch. For a human, this is
the part of the back between the shoulder blades. I
love that acnestice because you know when you like I
scratched Jinx's butt because she can't scratch back there? Oh nut,
no the top of it, but a tail?

Speaker 4 (01:42:32):
Weirdo ride God, yeah, I'm the weird one for bringing
that up on air. Yeah me, okay, yeah, if you.

Speaker 5 (01:42:41):
Scratch Poppy there, she'll like it, like right above the tail.
Just say it? Okay, what's our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 8 (01:42:47):
To get away from this weird butt scratching conversations?

Speaker 7 (01:42:50):
Putting the T and TV? All right, Putting the T
and TV got a chance.

Speaker 8 (01:42:55):
Emerald Legassi and Wolfgang Puck have served as judges on
this comp tition that's been cooking since two thousand.

Speaker 4 (01:43:02):
What is your mind and correct? Oh, I'll take it.
I'll take that zero. Okay, you can have a gain nothing,
not a clue. I'm keeping it, top chef.

Speaker 2 (01:43:12):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:43:12):
It starts with the team.

Speaker 8 (01:43:15):
And T the T T From nineteen ninety three to
two thousand and one, Chuck Norris was walker this many
texts sing correct back to zero so zero zero tinky
winky dipsy La, La and Poe were the big floor.

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
No no no, no no no no no, I did
not know I heard it first. We're saying exactly, exactly,
makes so much sense. Now that's bloney. Yep, oh, next one.

Speaker 8 (01:43:46):
It preceded the Sarah Connor chronicles in this.

Speaker 4 (01:43:51):
Terminator.

Speaker 5 (01:43:52):
Correct yes to no, it's one one. No, I have two,
never won one. Oh, you're I have one one.

Speaker 7 (01:43:59):
We're talking one side right.

Speaker 8 (01:44:01):
It's eighth and last season finale ended with its characters
ringing in January first, nineteen eighty.

Speaker 4 (01:44:09):
Ringing, ringing in nineteen eight is the last question?

Speaker 7 (01:44:16):
This is the last one jan First.

Speaker 4 (01:44:18):
Get a tiebreaker, man, let's take a tiebreaker new one? Wait,
hang on, No, No, I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:44:23):
Know that is the first word.

Speaker 8 (01:44:25):
The no, it's that that seventies show. You know that
last one tiebreaker rock paper scissors. You'll want to use
paper called commie that's thinner and often six inches square
for this craft with a Japanese name.

Speaker 6 (01:44:47):
Close.

Speaker 4 (01:44:48):
I'll take that as a win. You got.

Speaker 5 (01:44:51):
You can't take it as a win. You can take
it as.

Speaker 4 (01:44:53):
A moral victory, but you can't take it and I'll
never ever live that down.

Speaker 5 (01:44:57):
Yep, there you go. What's always sports today?

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:45:01):
Here, kay, sports? I know we have our NFL Network
insider Ian Rappaport, I believe, yes, join yesterday. We're also
giving away, like you mentioned, a chance to win those
tickets to Broncos Falcons. It's going to be a fun house.
We got Ryan, we got Ben Nick Ferguson here in
the house today. It's forty pig on Ingland. It's a
come on down.

Speaker 3 (01:45:15):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:45:15):
We're also going to give away a pair of tickets
to see the Atlanta Falcons play the Broncos on the
seventeenth of November at empower Field at Mile High and
we're the Broncos Station. That's why we're giving them away.
Call of five grant three O three seven one three
eighty five eighty five. We'll be back tomorrow. Keep it
right here on Kawa