11-06-24 FULL SHOW - Trump Heads Back To the White House

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday. Thank god it's over
edition of the show. It is finished. And the outcome
I'm not gonna lie. It was surprising to me. The
nature of the number of people and the people who

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voted the way they did was surprising to me. I
won't say shocking, right because shocking is not another level
of surprise, but the demographics that shifted in the direction
of the Republican Party were significant everywhere except Colorado. So
we're going to go over all of the initiatives, how
they did, what you could expect. Obviously, we are going

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to talk about the uh the presidential election. We have
no choice but to do that. But first I want
to tell you what's on the blog and where to
find it. Go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the headline in the latest posts section. This
is eleven six twenty four blog Trump heads Back to
the White House. Click on that and here are the

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headlines you will find within I.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
Dinkwhe's listing office. Half of American all with ships and clipmans,
and say that's ConA press plant.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Today on the blog we will air Vice President Harris's
concession speech at two pm today. Trump gets four more years.
Let your kids shoot some paper turkeys. Time for some
clean speech after that election run for veterans this weekend. Now,
let's break down some election stuff scrolling. Let's talk state
initiatives scrolling. How are world leaders responding to Trump's win?

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Why Trump won, explained to Britz, Denver is tired of
paying for other people's housing. Congressional races aren't all done,
Thank goodness, Colorado DEM's voted in the national vote compact.

Speaker 6 (02:14):
Am I right?

Speaker 4 (02:15):
The election was a referendum on today's Democratic party. See you,
Denver will be providing a safe space today. Morning. Joe
is not okay. Don't forget to nominate your favorite veteran.
Google tells employees to shut down political speech at work.
Let the mass exodus begin. Want better sex, A good
night sleep can help men. Yahoo fires his political rival

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Peanut died of COVID. The markets like the Trump victory.
Older adults give free advice on taking care of yourself.
I'm down with this one hundred percent. Maybe it's time
for a sleep vacation. Watch your grandmother realize her logic
is so so bad. Those are the headlines on the
blog at mandy'sblog dot com, and today I will urge

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you all to use the Common Spirit health text line.
You can always text us at five sixty six nine
zero to go ahead and tell me how you feel.
So Mandy just trying to wrap my head around Colorado.
So I can choose to kill my baby, but if
I have that baby, I can't choose them to send

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them to the school of my choosing. Yes correct. And
what that texter is talking about are two initiatives. One
of them codified abortion into the state constitution, but in
doing so, it also did two other things. It is
now going to allow taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions,

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and any restrictions, including parental notification, just got thrown out
the window. So we now have taken our extreme abortion
laws and codified them into the constitution. And I'm going
to give you the only upside of that, because ultimately,
abortion as a electoral issue has been a really bad

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one for the Republican Party, and now that it is
codified in the constitution, it's a non issue in Colorado.
So what would be nice is if the Colorado Republican Party,
assuming that they do the right thing and get different
leadership in the spring, because the leadership they have now
is terrible. I'm hoping that the Republican Party of Colorado

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can now start to campaign on things that really matter
to Colorado's And this, my friends, is why Donald Trump
won long and short. I mean, this is why he
won because as much as remember the CBS debate. During
the CBS debate, Nora o'donald said, now we're going to
talk about threats, a top concern of voters, threats to democracy.

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And I was like, what, what the hell is she
talking about? So I pulled up the polling. Do you
know where threats to democracy polled? If it showed up
at all, it was well outside the top ten. And yeah,
that is what the Democrats wanted to talk about. I mean,
that's what they decided it was important. They decided it
was important to stake a claim that, you know, they

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were going to pay for the sex change operations of
prisoners when most people don't care about trans people. I mean,
don't get me wrong. It's not like we want them
bad things to happen, but we generally don't care. Go
and live your life, except when it comes to children.
And when we stood up and said it's not okay
to medically sterilize children because when they were five they

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announced that they liked wearing dresses. We were told that
we were transphobes and horrible people. And that's one of
the reasons Trump won the election, one of the reasons.
I don't know if you guys saw this today on
X Generation X, which is the smallest generation currently, baby
boomers are bigger, Millennials are bigger. I don't know about
Gen Z. We voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, and I

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saw the funniest comment. It's like, we don't like being
told what to do and we don't like being lectured to.
So there you have it. That's why. So the other
thing that failed, which I'm really disappointed about, is Amendment eighty,
the school choice amendment for K through twelve education. There
was a lot of lying and misinformation by the Teachers'

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union about what it did, and it was very effective,
and that's why they lie. I mean, that's why they
do it. If it didn't work, they wouldn't do it.
That failed. Also the Big Trophy, the Big Cat Hunting
Band failed. The also ranked choice voting failed, and I
want to have a moment on that for a second,
because somebody said, let me see you on the text line,

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Oh hang on one second, let me do this, let
me do it and hang on. Oh gosh, you guys
are blowing up the text line right now. Manby, I
generally agree with you, but you were way off based
on Prop one thirty one, and glad to see it
was defeated. That is a proposition. I would have been
okay if it passed, but I also would have put
my you know, recognized that it would have required a

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tremendo this amount of work. But I also think seeing
what happened, and I believe a rod see if ranked
choice voting just got repealed in Alaska. When I looked
last night, it was losing that the repeal was winning,
but not by much, but there was only like fifty
percent of the vote in After talking to Senator Mike
Shower about that from Alaska and about the problems with implementation,

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I think that it's not quite ready for prime time
with our current election system. So did it get repealed?

Speaker 7 (07:29):
It looks like fifty forty nine percent yes in favor
of repealing.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
That is a lot closer than I thought it would
be a lot closer. That means that forty nine percent
of Alaska said no, we like it and it works.
That's pretty compelling. But there are significant issues that are
going to have to be addressed in the actual implementation
of ranked choice voting before I think people are going
to be more accepting. So it is uh, it's definitely

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something that is not going to go away anytime soon.
So we shall see a lot of you already hitting
the text line with this, Mandy. If the National Popular
Vote Compact was in effect right now Colorado and nationally,
the Colorado Dems heads would have exploded last night. Now,
for those of you who don't know what that is,
the National Popular Vote Compact something that Colorado voters voted

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to join in twenty twenty. It would essentially require us
as a state to give our electoral College votes to
whoever won the national popular votes.

Speaker 7 (08:32):
Yes, seventy six percent have reported, so four thousand votes ahead.
So still something.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Oh wow, So it still could lose. The repeal could
still lose, Okay, we'll see. I have a feeling in
Alaska because they have ranked choice voting, it takes longer
to count their ballots, I mean, legit. I think that's
probably part of the problem.

Speaker 7 (08:49):
By the way, Colorado is one of four states that
rejected the rank choice in addition to Idaho, Nevada in organ.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yeah, so did anybody pass it? I don't know how
many it was on the ballot for not saying yeah, so, okay,
Well that Isan has it too.

Speaker 7 (09:06):
I don't know if they had to vote up.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
To I don't think they had to vote. They weren't
trying to repeal it. So we're gonna have to let
that get sorted out. I'm not bummed about that. I
am bummed that the school choice initiative failed. I think
that's very dangerous an today's current climate. The good news
is is that we apparently last I checked, we had
three Republicans that had been voted onto the Board of Education,
and that is the best news possible if you care

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about school choice. It will make it a lot more
difficult to shut down charter schools and other things that
the teachers' unions would love to have happen. So I
just responded to something on on Twitter that I thought
was kind of funny because uh noted lefter notice left
winger U sing badsha he posted I've seen enough, amn

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mit eighty school choice will not get the fifty five
percent it needs to pass. Big win for the CEA,
So basically big win for the unions. Isn't that funny
that parents not having protected rights to direct their children's
education is a big win for teachers' unions? Doesn't that
tell you all you need to know, doesn't bit? So yeah, yeah, Anyway.

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The other thing that failed was the modification to initiative
and judicial filing deadlines. That was just unneeded and stupid
and would have cut down the time that people have
to gather signatures for initiatives. So it failed as well.
Now what passed. We've got the extension of tax breaks
for certain veterans whose disabilities have left them unemployable. We

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are now going to have a judicial Adjudicative Board and
that's going to oversee the judiciary because they've done such
a horrible job doing that themselves. We have removed the
constitutional same sex marriage provision from the Constitution because after
Dobbs that was redundant. We voted to retain XX. We
basically detabored sports betting and will allow the state to

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keep excess tax revenue. And we just imposed a tax
on firearms and ammunition, which means that for most of us,
we will buy our ammunition elsewhere. Montana, Wyoming, We're coming
for you. We also, as I said before, codified the
right to abortion and are forcing taxpayers to pay for it.

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Now we are going to have a veterinary professional associate
in Colorado. We modified parole to say that dangerous criminals
have to serve eighty five percent of their sentence, which
I agree with allheartedly. And we're giving a whole pantload
of money to law enforcement to shore up recruiting, training,
and retention. So that is kind of where we are

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with our local ballot measures. So funny thing, really funny thing,
and I don't mean funny haha. Wait, I gotta tell
you about my guests. I do have a lot of
guests today. Because I figured we would talk about the election,
have a guest to break it up, talk about the election,
have a guest to break it up. But then Vice
President Harris, who did not address her people last night,

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which I'm just gonna say this. In twenty sixteen, Hillary
Clinton did not give a concession speech the night she lost.
And remember she lost, like straight up she lost. There
was no question she lost. In twenty sixteen, she did
not give a concession speech. In twenty twenty, Trump didn't

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give a concession speech because we didn't know who won.
You know, we didn't know who won for a very
long time. In twenty twenty four, the second female candidate
for president also chose not to give a concession speech.
And I'm just gonna say it. If you cannot man
up and walk out there and give a concession speech,

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you should not be running for president. And you're making
way look bad. It's just so upsetting. I didn't think
i'd be able to hold it together. I just didn't. Well,
ah Lee, not exactly a you know, a rousing endorsement
for the backbone of the women running for president. So

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at two o'clock, Vice President Harris is going to give
her a concession speech. We are going to air it
here on the show. I don't know. I'm hoping it'll
be on time. We'll see. But I moved all my
guests up so we're gonna have a couple of guests
back to back, and I'm sorry about that. That was
my plan, but it got all, you know, jumbled up
because of the concession speech. At two pm, we are

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going to talk about the Cofa Turkey shoot. This weekend,
we're going to talk about Clean Speech Colorado, and boy,
I needed this interview today. Rabbi Lebon comes on every
year to talk about Clean Speech Colorado, and in an
election year, we need clean Speech Colorado more than ever.
What is Clean Speech Colorado. It is a daily program
throughout the month of November where they send you these

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two and a half minute videos every morning to your
email and they're just about elevating the dialogue and using
your words with intention and using your words for good
instead of gossip or evil or running people down or whatever.
And maybe it's the Clean Speech Colorado getting to me
because I'm signed up. So the first day of November

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every year, I get my Clean Speech Colorado email and
that reminds me I gotta have a Rabbi Levian on
the show. So it's already going on, and I put
I put yesterday's lesson on the blog today because it's
so perfect for today because today a whole bunch of
people woke up and ay Rod and I were talking

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about this off the air. I have friends across the
political spectrum, and it's something I'm very proud of. I've
always maintained my friendships. I've never let politics get in
the way. If I've ever had a problem because of
politics with a friend, it was on their side, not mine, right.
I respect my friends on the left. I think they
are intelligent people. I think they're wrong, but I respect

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that they have done their thinking and they have come
to a different conclusion than I have, and I try
to be very respectful of this. Yesterday's lesson was about
judging others favorably, right, So I put that on the
block and they're two and a half minutes long. It's
two and a half minutes of your day, but it
does make you think. So we're going to talk to
Rabbi leap On now a little bit after one, and

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then at twelve thirty we're going to talk about a
Veteran's Day parade and run and festival. Ben Albright's going
to be m seeing the parade, so that's super exciting.
We're going to do that at twelve thirty. So it's
going to be a little bit of election stuff, a
little bit of something else, and kind of back and
forth today. But I want to specifically talk to well

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all of most of you are on the right, not
all of you. I do have people on the left
that listen religiously, and I appreciate everyone, whether wherever they
are on the political spectrum. But I want to throw
this out. You know, there's a lot going on on
social media, and I'm sure that a lot of the
national talk show hosts, because I see him on Twitter,
are going show me your memes, cry your liberal tears,

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Are they salty? And stuff like that. I am doing
none of that because it's not productive. We just came
out of what has to be the worst election cycle
of my lifetime. And I say that at the end
of every election cycle, but this one was not even close,
not even close. And half the country woke up today

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and a good chunk of them truly believe the following things.
They believe that Trump is never going to leave office,
that he's going to issue an executive order that everybody
in the world is just going to go along with
to stay indefinitely. He's just gonna stay till he dies.
That's thing number one, thing number two, And I don't
even know where this came from. Undo gay marriage? What
is anybody even talking about that anymore? No, you know

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what we're all doing instead going to gay weddings when
our friends get married, right, I mean, is what are
we talking about here? They believe all of these insane
things that have been said by the news media outlets
they consume, you know, for the last eighteen months, and
they're scared and they're upset and they're freaked out because

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they think their entire life is about to crumble. And
the last thing I'm gonna do is pylon. I'm not
going to do that because I'm sick of it. I
just want the country to do well. And guess what,
you guys, if Kamala Harris had won, I would have
said the exact same thing today, because we've got to
get beyond the divisiveness that we're having now. We can't

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survive as a country if we continue down this path.
So here's what I'm asking. I'm asking you to join
me in committing to ensuring that the craziest crap that
people on the left have been fed, that's gonna they
think is really gonna happen. We're gonna commit to making
sure that crazy crap like an installed dictatorship doesn't have

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been on our watch. How about that? You know, let's
just make sure instead of rubbing it in, why don't
we just say, hey, you know what, it was a
horrible campaign. We're glad it's over. Let's talk about where
we can find commonalities and move forward together. Now, you
might be rejected, and if that happens, then that's on them,
not on you. That's how I feel about my friends

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who have decided that we can't be friends anymore because
of politics. That's on them, not on me. It just
isn't so I don't know. I guess I'm asking us all, like,
take your victory lapse, do what you gotta do, but
let's just figure out how to move beyond this. Mandy,
my wife is worried about Project twenty twenty five.

Speaker 8 (18:41):
You know what.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
We're gonna talk to Brandy Morinian when we get back.
She is the CEO or the board president of the
Colorado Veterans Project. But after that, I'm gonna address Project
twenty twenty five one more time, one more time. And
the people who say the right. Hardly ever gets victories blanket.
I'm piling on like a mofo. I get it. I

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hear you. I'm just not going to join you. And
I hope that's okay. Okay, Oh boy, you guys are
lighting up the text line. Now here's the thing, you guys. No,
we'll do that later. Brandon Meridian from Colorado Veterans Project
is coming on to talk about the parade and race
this weekend. We will do that next here on KOA.
First of all, Brandy, Happy snowy Wednesday to you.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Thanks Mandy, thanks for having me on as well.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
So what is this is like the big weekend? This
is like the prom for the Colorado Veterans Project. What
is happening this weekend? That's so true?

Speaker 9 (19:34):
This is our signature ben So this Saturday at City
Park we are hosting, along with our title sponsor this year,
Horse Brewing Company and the City of Denver, the Veterans
Day Parade, festival and run.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
So when does everything kick off? Let's just go in order,
like what's happening when?

Speaker 5 (19:55):
Absolutely so, we're going to start off with the run.

Speaker 9 (19:58):
We're actually kicking off the there's a ten k ripto
Rockmarch and we'll start that around ten thirty I'm sorry,
around eight thirty, and then shortly after that we'll do
the five k in the ten k and then around
ten thirty that's when the parade will start. The festival
opens up at nine thirty, and we've got some new
things this year.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Which we're really excited about.

Speaker 9 (20:19):
Horst Brown Company is hosting a bigger garden, so that'll
be the first time I think we've done that, so
it'll be a lot of fun. We're giving away a
roof to a veteran, eligible veteran, active.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
Duty or gold Star member, right, so.

Speaker 9 (20:37):
Folks can go online at Denver Veteransday dot com and
search there to see how they can qualify for that,
so that'll be fun. We are also, for the second year,
Canvas Credit Union is providing free food for families.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
And of veterans at the event. So yeah, we've got
a lot of fun things going on this year.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
Our own Ben alright from Broncos Country Tonight is going
to be and seeing the parade. That's really cool. He's
going to do a great job to have him, so yes,
he is, he is, and and it looks like you're
gonna have a little bit of weather on Saturday morning. Anyway,
And as I said to Brandy off the air, you
tell people you want to know what it's like to
be a soldier, go run in the snow. That's what

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That's what it means because they don't get to take
the day off when the weather's bad. So can people
still Yeah? Can people still sign up? That's the question?

Speaker 10 (21:30):
Absolutely?

Speaker 5 (21:31):
Absolutely, they can come on race day actually to sign
up for the run.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
Oh great.

Speaker 9 (21:37):
Like, like I said, you can go to Denver veteransday
dot com sign up for the run.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
We've got a lot of uh this available. We're gonna,
you know, based on the weather.

Speaker 9 (21:48):
We're gonna come up with a couple of contingencies on
how to set it up.

Speaker 5 (21:52):
But right now our plan is rain or shine, and
we're just helping for some shine.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
I want to ask you about the ten k riptoe
rucksack challenge. Who is that aim for?

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (22:02):
Actually, that's a good question.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I know it.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
It's right in front of me. Army Captain Russell b
Ripto twenty seven of our Vada Colorado assigned to Company
A Company, third Battalion, seventy fifth Ranger Regiment in Fort Benning, Georgia.
He was killed in action on April third, two thousand
and three while serving in a rock And I only
say that because let's remember what this is all about, right,
It's not about going running in the snow. It is

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about honoring the people many a majority, I think that
signed up to serve voluntarily, and also those veterans who
were drafted into service and served honorably in Vietnam. And
so this day is all about our veterans and saying
thank you. And we have so many veterans in this
area that I hope they all come out and enjoy
a little love on Saturday. What is the fee to

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get into the race, Brandy?

Speaker 9 (22:49):
The run is endingwhere from forty five dollars to sixty
five dollars between the five k and the rock March,
So that that's the fee.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
The event is free, Okay, So the.

Speaker 9 (23:01):
Parade and festival if you just want to come down
and enjoy the festival.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
And to regorate your point.

Speaker 9 (23:08):
This really is to honor our veteran community in the
state of Colorado.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
Our nonprofit focuses on that.

Speaker 9 (23:17):
Our mission is Colorado Veterans Project is to help veterans
transition from military Their military career into their next opportunity.
So we provide a lot of scholarships and training around that.
So you know, come out help celebrate veterans.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
And on this Saturday, I do want to say transitioning
out of the military seems like it should be a
no big deal, but it is very, very challenging. The
going from a highly structured, highly accountable system into the
world which is not highly accountable and highly structured can
be very challenging. When we talk about veterans suicide. One

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of the things that could I think make a dent
in that is making sure you have that SMO transition.
That's one way to make it better and easier. So
I love what you guys do, Brandy, and I hope
you have a massive turnout, absolutely massive turnout on Saturday.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
Thank you so much, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
All right, that's Brandy Morianian with the Colorado Veterans Project.
To put a link on the blog to the Colorado
Veterans Project so you can go there or just go
to Denver Veterans Day dot com for more. Brandy, thanks so.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
Much, Thank you so much, Mandy, thanks for having me.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
All Right, that's Brandy Morianian and I hope you guys
can go out and do that. I am going to
be out of town, so I cannot make it this year,
which is a disappointment because I'd love to see Ben
do a great job hosting the Veterans' Day parade. I
want to talk quickly, and I can do this in
a couple of minutes. About Project twenty twenty five. Project
twenty twenty five was glommed onto by the Democrats as

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a way to attack Donald Trump. But here's here's the problem.
Project twenty twenty five was put together by the Heritage Foundation,
who has put together a similar proposal every presidential cycle
since nineteen eighty So what changed? Why is this now
a big deal? What changed was the leadership at the

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Heritage Institute changed, and it changed dramatically. Kevin Williamson is
now the head of the Heritage Institute, and I got
to tell you, I don't like the way he's running
the place because for years and years, the Heritage Institute
was a right leaning think tank, a conservative think tank.
They made no bones about that. But they worked on

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policy papers, they worked on solutions oriented issues, and they
would give those issues and solutions to any politician who wanted.
They brought in speakers from all over the world. The
Queen of England spoke with the Heritage Foundation once. I think,
I mean, they were really a powerful think tank, but
they were not a political think tank. They had great ideas,

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they had great solutions, and they would give them to anybody.
If the Democrats had come to them and said, look,
we want to change tax policy and we need your help,
they would have gladly given them the information. Under Kevin Williamson,
they have decided that that is not good enough anymore,
and now they are going to be political. And this
has been an abject disaster, not only for the Heritage
Foundation but also for Project twenty twenty five because when

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Project twenty twenty five started getting such a light shone
on it, instead of saying, hey, this is our project,
they let the impression linger that somehow the Trump campaign
was associated to this, and that was a terrible mistake,
both for Heritage because I think they have I think
they have damaged their reputation with this. I didn't never
go to them for politics. I went to them for policy.

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I have interviewed I mean, at least one hundred experts
from Heritage because they are the tops in their field.
They're brilliant minds working on big problems and coming up
with good solutions. But now now they're a political organization.
So now if I want to bring somebody on from
the Heritage Foundation, people on the left are going to

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immediately dismiss the expertise because now they've made themselves a
political organization. It's absolutely ridiculous. I mean ridiculous. So yeah,
that is how I feel about Project twenty twenty five.
But again, the Democrats have done a great job attaching

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Project twenty twenty five to the Trump campaign, even though
he has said over and over and over again that
he didn't have anything to do with the creation of
Project twenty twenty five and doesn't intend to use it now.
I honestly believe you will never hear of it again
from the Trump White House ever, because why would you.
They caused him a huge problem, huge problem, And the

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one thing I know about our president elect is he
holds a grudge. So as far as Project twenty twenty
five goes, As far as women's rights go, the President
elect has said multiple times I have no interest in
a federal abortion ban over and over again because I

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don't necessarily think he's a super anti abortion guy. In
Milania's new books, she's come out pretty pretty clearly is
pro choice, and I do think that has an influence.
I do think that he went about having Roe versus
Way overturned because it deserved to be at the state level.
And you know what, all over the country, all over
the country except Florida. In one other state, Nebraska, maybe

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I don't have that in front of me. They're codifying
abortion rights into their constitutions. So it's going to become
a non issue because there's not a political will trust me,
there is not a Republican in the House, a Republican
in the Senate that is dying to bring up a
national abortion ban. At this point, there's nobody who's like, yeah,

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that's theill I'm gonna die on. Because you know why,
these abortion rights are being codified in states that previously
were thought to be pro life, with the exception of Florida,
which by the way, also did not legalize recreational marijuana.
They have medical, but they do not have recreational and
the voter shot it down. I wonder if we read it, well, No,

(29:17):
we have too many liberals here in the state anyway. Oh, Mandy,
you called the Heritage Foundation the Heritage Institute. Yes, I did,
but that's not right. The Heritage Foundation is the organization
that I have loved for so long that I just
don't love anymore anymore. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, We're gonna take

(29:40):
a quick time out. We'll be back. We're gonna get
into some more election results. I want to read a column,
and I don't think I have time. In the next segment,
I'm gonna try. By Constantine Kissen, written to Europeans about
why Trump won the election. It's so good, I'm gonna
share it with you right after this. I want to
share this column with you. I think I can get
it up all in here in a couple minutes. Ten

(30:01):
reasons you didn't see this coming by Constantine Kissen. For
my British and European friends who are shocked and surprised,
here are ten reasons you didn't see this coming. Read
this short post, and then read the replies from our
American friends, who will confirm what I'm saying. Number One,
Americans love their country and want it to be the
best in the world. America is a nation of people
who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning.

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Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.
Number two. Unlike a Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed tocline.
They don't have net zero here. They believe in producing
their own energy and making it as cheap as possible
because they know their prosperity depends on it. Number three,
Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased

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rapidly under sky high What the official statistics say about
inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.
Number four. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism.
They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super
rich being super rich because they know they live in
a country where being super rich is available to anyone

(31:06):
with the talent and drive to make it. They don't
resent success, they celebrate it. Number five. Americans are the
most pro immigration people in the world. Read that again, seriously,
Read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They
want more talented immigrants to come to America, but they
refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having

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a border. Number six. Americans are sensitive about racial issues
and their countries in perfect history. They believe that those
who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should
be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however,
is the idea that in order to address the errors
of the new past, new errors must be made. DEI

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is racist. They know it, and they reject it precisely
because they are not racist. Number seven. Americans are the
most philosmitic nation on Earth October seventh, and the pro
o Hamas Left's reaction shock them to their very core, because,
among other things, they remember what nine to eleven was like,
and they know jihad when they see it. Number eight

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Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works,
not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers
and intellectuals. In America, they produce and attract great engineers, businessmen,
and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's
rhetoric than you do, and more about his policies than
you do. Number nine, Americans are deeply optimistic people. They

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hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a
series of evils for which they must eternally apologize is
utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together,
not endlessly obsessing about the past. And number ten. America
is a country whose founding story is one of resistance
to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations, and control.

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They understand that freedom comes with the price of self reliance,
and they pay it gladly. That column by Constantine Kissen
says it so clearly and so good. And if you
look on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com for
the headline why Trump won explained to Britz, you can
find it there and read it for yourself. I will
be right back after the news traffick in weather with

(33:19):
Rabbi Lebon to talk about clean speech in Colorado. The
perfect day to do it. We'll do that next.

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Speaker 4 (33:52):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
We've got Rabbi Levan joining us in a few minutes
to talk about clean speech Colorado. But I wanted to
kind of go through some of the text messages because
you guys have been lighting up the Common Spirit health
text line until he gets on the show. A couple
of people are weighing in on the column that I

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just read by Constantine Kissen. This one said, Afternoon, Mandy.
I love Constantine, but I would like to point out
that we elected a president twice, Obama, that said there
was nothing exceptional about America and the only way we
got to where we were was by stepping on others.
Remember the apology tour. I do, and I think that's
one of the reasons that Donald Trump just got re

(34:34):
elected Because for the Obama administration for eight years, right,
eight years, if you disagreed with President Obama, you were
called a racist, you were called if you wanted a
secure border, remember border, the immigration reform bill came to
the floor and that was shot down, thankfully because it

(34:55):
was terrible. But if you believe in securing the southern border,
you were called xenophobic, if you were called if you know,
if you didn't want Hillary Clinton for anything, you were
called misogynists. Like there were so many names being called
that I think people on the right kind of got
caught back on their heels and then here comes Donald
Trump in twenty sixteen, and after eight years have been

(35:18):
called everything any name you could possibly imagine, but mostly
a racist. The voter said enough, I'm done. And I've
told this to people over and over again. Donald Trump's
first election was a middle finger to all of that. Well,
what do you think this second election is? It is
an even bigger middle finger. It's a middle finger to

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boys playing in girls sports. It's a middle finger to
medicalizing little children before they're old enough to understand the
ramifications of their choices. It's a middle finger to the
notion that somehow, if you are a white person, you
are irredeemably racist. It's a middle finger to being called
a Nazi because god forbid, you're worried about the Southern order,

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you think crime is out of control, or you don't
want to have to pay six bucks for a gallon
of milk. All of this is why you just got
elected again. And I have seen many, many, many, many many,
and I need many many Democrats on social media essentially,
and as a matter of fact, I read one earlier

(36:21):
that said to the effect of now we know, now
we know what the country is, what we always thought
it was, Well, what is that. I mean, you believe
that there were irredeemably racist I don't. I don't because
I look around at the number of interracial marriages that
are happening, inner racial children that are being born, and

(36:42):
guess what, most people have, vast majority, overwhelming people. We
don't care who you marry. We really don't. We don't care.
We just want to be able to raise our children
in an economy where they might be able to buy
a house at some point. We want to be able
to put food on the table for our kids without

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worrying about not being able to pay the light bill,
which by the way, is also gone up because of
the green energy dreams of the Democratic Party. So people
responded to those visceral personal issues with a vote for
Donald Trump. A Rod and I were talking about this earlier.
Hispanic men, Latino men, Trump won so many more of

(37:23):
them than he won in twenty sixteen, after the Democrats
tried to inflate a joke made by a comedian about
Puerto Rico as if all Latinos and Hispanics are exactly
the same, and they're not talk about cultural diversity in
a population. That's why I'm I don't. I try I'm
used to using the word Latino, right, that is what

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people use in Florida. Those are Puerto Ricans, those are Cubans.
Maybe you got some Colombians in there. You get people
from Mexico, but not nearly as many. But here Hispanic
feels more right. That divide right there, of me not
being sure of what to call people indicates how diverse
that population is. But the Democrats assumed they were going

(38:08):
to vote like a monolith, and people got tired of
being told that they were the problem when they just
supported a different candidate or a different vision for the
future than the other side did. I will say this,
and we haven't. I don't have anything about this on
the blog, but I'm really interested to see what the

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national media does from here on out, because they have
been utterly and completely discredited, I mean completely discredited.

Speaker 11 (38:45):
Through this.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
Uh Augh is totally discredited as any kind of harbingers
of what people in America think because they just glows
over people who don't agree with them. They dismiss them.
And the Democrats who are running around now saying that

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obviously the country is racist and misogynistic and sexist. If
they keep it up, they're never going to win another
election again because it's stopped working, and I think this
election should once and for all put a nail in
the coffin of that entire line of attack. So now
I want to switch to something completely different. I was

(39:31):
talking about this earlier because I love this event. It
happens every year. It runs for the month of November,
and it is called Clean Speech Colorado, and it is
very simple. You sign up. I put a link on
the blog to the sign up and you go sign
up and you get a video every day. You can

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either read it. They send the copy as well, so
if you're like me and you're a reader, you could
read it really quickly. But the the videos are about
two and a half three minutes long tops. They're really short,
and they just talk about a different aspect of speech.
And so I don't know if Rabbi Liban is here yet.
Rabbi can you hear me? I sure can perfect, Okay, great,

(40:14):
I couldn't see you, and I wasn't sure if you
were actually there. First of all, welcome back for yet
another time another converse. Well, you know what, on November first,
in my email, I got my first edition of Clean
Speech Colorado and I went, oh, my gosh, it's time
to talk to Rabbi leban so tell people why this
got started, because now it's growing all over the country.

(40:35):
But let's talk about the origins of clean speech Colorado.

Speaker 11 (40:39):
Absolutely, Really, it shouldn't be too hard to imagine. Many
years ago, maybe six or eight, there was this growing
sense in America, after some contentious elections, that the tone
of civil discourse had taken a serious nosedive. I was
hit again and again and again with people friending each

(41:00):
other on Facebook because of politics. That may seem like
old news, but when it first started, it struck us
all right in the face, and there was a real
recognition that we need to we need to review some
of our skills and buck up on bone up on
some of our skills and just how we can speak
respectfully and be mindful of the kind of tone of

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our discourse.

Speaker 5 (41:24):
So that really put us into motion.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
Well, I want to be clear, because this is not
in the actual clean speech videos. You don't really talk
about politics. You talk about it from the perspective of
Jewish tradition, Jewish lessons, Jewish learning that come from your faith,
about using words for good. I mean, I'm sort of
oversimplifying it here. So I don't want people to think

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this is about politics, even though it's the perfect time
for this because of politics, wouldn't you say it.

Speaker 11 (41:54):
Really is it's not a campaign about politics at all
that we use the word campaign, But it's just that
I think some as I said, some real sense of
us in them that emerged from some difficult you know,
political campaigning really identified or emphasized the need for us
to to be more sensitive about the way we speak.

(42:15):
But the way we speak is I'm not trying to
affect political campaigning.

Speaker 5 (42:20):
I think that's kind of beyond the my sphere of influence.

Speaker 11 (42:24):
But what I really hope is that all of us
who are living through these times and through these campaigns,
and through the upheaval that we and the tumult that
we feel, just there's a lot of us them mentality,
and there's a lot of anger and vitriol, and you know,
I don't have to tell you. Everybody knows how bad
is out there. So what that is something I do
think that we can address and I think we can

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improve upon, and I think each of us, that's the
underlying theme of the campaign, Each of us can really
be more aware, be more sensitized, and be more careful
about the way that we speak to them as well.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
I actually put on my blog I embedded yesterday's lesson
about judging others favorably because I thought today, of all days,
that is the perfect message for us to hear. And
at the beginning of the show, I talked about my
view that for me personally, I'm not taking a victory lap,
I'm not gloating, I'm not doing any of that because

(43:17):
there are a lot of people in this country that
woke up today really genuinely scared of what is going
to happen next. And I don't think it's productive to
you cry about liberal tears or whatever it is. But
I do think there's an opportunity here to say to people,
we understand why you feel the way you do, because
you've been sold a bill of goods that is telling

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you to feel this way, but at the same time
not judging them harshly. You know, it's like the US
versus them mentality is not helpful and it won't help
us as a nation, and it certainly doesn't help our
interpersonal relationships.

Speaker 11 (43:51):
Exactly well said. We have to realize in an election
season that was really so so divided. I mean, we
were all on the edge of our seats because the.

Speaker 5 (43:59):
Country is fundamentally so fifty to fifty.

Speaker 11 (44:02):
That means that there's there's a half the people out
there that that don't think the way that we do.
And and there needs to be a certain, uh, just
a general respect for those individuals. We may differ with them,
we may differ with them strongly, and that's a that's okay,
And a democracy can handle that. A community can handle that,
but a community and the docracy can't fall apart from it.

(44:22):
And and if there's there needs to be a recognition
of the of the greater strength of the relationships that
we all want to have. Uh.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
When when when this campaign.

Speaker 11 (44:32):
Was launched, it was primarily focused on on the Jewish
community of Colorado, and uh, and even within our own community,
there's plenty of differences of opinion.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
That's that's okay.

Speaker 11 (44:43):
But what's what's not okay is when we start to
defame character because of that difference of opinion, or we
start to speak in an offensive and an aggressive way,
and then it becomes slander and then it just it
just cuts us in pieces at relationships, families, you know,
congregations and communities and that's uh, and that's really what

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what we underscore.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
As a general rule.

Speaker 11 (45:07):
And you you you've picked out a nice lesson, which
is judging others favorably means to try to find in
effect and uh, the points of commonality between you know,
the two of you, and to and to recognize that
that well.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
Meaning people could have different opinions about the same manner.

Speaker 11 (45:25):
The world is not nobody you know, nobody's going to
think exactly like me, and everybody's entitled to think the
way that they think and it doesn't take away from
their from their value as a human being or as
a member of our community, Imember my family, a friend,
et cetera. I recommended that that this week that uh
that now that the election is over, it'd be a
time where when when we uh go out, you know,

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past our comfort zone and maybe specifically be in touch
with some of the folks that that we know that
didn't vote the way that we voted and just try
to be friendly for sure, not to rub their noses
in it, but to be to be warm. Let's you know,
the politicians are going to speak in sort of of
general terms about rebuilding our unity of our country. And

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that's all right and true. But we are the people
on the ground, and we can do that by taking
active steps to maintain or to rebuild, or to reinforce
relationships of warmth and friendship and respect, even with people
who are on the opposite side of political owt from us.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
Rabbi Leman is my guest. One of the things I
really like about this, Rabbi, and I don't know if
this is a feature or a bug, but I'm learning
more about the Jewish traditions behind all of this, because
it's all rooted in the Jewish traditions. You talk, you
know that throughout there's little snippets. It's not proselytizing. I
don't want to make it sound like that, but it's
very interesting for someone of a different faith to have

(46:50):
a little window into some of the things that Jews believe.
And I think in this day and age, that's very useful,
you know, that's very productive in and of itself. Was
that also a reason you're doing this or was this
just a side effect?

Speaker 11 (47:07):
It's the the lessons that that are being taught in
the daily videos of clean Speech Colorado are absolutely universal lessons.
These are things that that should improve the lives of
any member of humanity that's interested, and they really can.
They're very very universal in their applicability. And then there
and then the personal benefit they'll all experience. Everyone uh

(47:30):
knows what it's like to suffer from an uncomfortable relationship
or painful things that aren't going well with a family
member or a friend or a colleague at work.

Speaker 12 (47:38):
You know, it's it's can be very very upsetting, very debilitating.

Speaker 11 (47:43):
And uh and so all of us will will also
readily appreciate the benefits of being more adept at handling
those relationships. And fundamentally, relationships are are conducted through speech,
So when we when we sensitize ourselves to the patterns
of speech that that we use, we will automatically become
more sensitized to each other and to the relationship and

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improve the relationship.

Speaker 10 (48:06):
Can all do that?

Speaker 4 (48:07):
It is an excellent program. It takes two and a
half minutes, maybe three on the outside, if there's a
slightly longer one. Every single morning I put a link
on the blog so you can sign up and start
getting your emails tomorrow, and then next year you already
signed up so you can just keep going with clean speech.
How many cities are doing a version of clean speech now, Rabbi.

Speaker 11 (48:28):
We're up to about a dozen different cities in America
and Canada and in the United Kingdom also so throughout
the English world, really all over the place.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
That is fantastic. People can go and visit cleanspeech dot
org to get to the main page, or just go
to my blog and sign up there. Rabbi le Ban,
thank you so much for your time today, and thank
you for doing this every year. I look forward to it.
I enjoy it. It makes my kind of my mind
right first thing in the morning, and I really really
appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
You're the best.

Speaker 10 (48:58):
Thanks for your support.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
It's clean speech. Oh thank you about that say that,
but thank you for all.

Speaker 11 (49:03):
Your support over the years for clean speech and having
me on your show.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
Appreciate you many, Thank you, Rabbi lee Man, and everybody
should sign up. Everybody should sign up, because boy, that
would be helpful. Right now, this texter said Mandy, it's
like we've all forgotten the basics of sportsmanship. Be dignified
whether your team won or lost, or let's shorten it out, Bill,
act like you've been there. You know how many times

(49:26):
do you hear that when you were a kid, act
like you've been there. I realized that, you know, we
all love an NFL celebration, you know, don't we. I
mean the ones they're doing now where they're like bowling
and all the receivers fall over. I mean, they're funny,
they're entertaining, but I do think that they sort of
exacerbate the uh, what's the word. I'm looking for, the

(49:49):
the obnoxious nature that that can happen when you win,
and the urge to shout down those that you defeated.

Speaker 7 (49:58):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
I get it, and I just want to say, and
I've had several people, several several people say some version
of let me see if I can find one on
the text line, very very quickly. Let's see. It just
says things like, after being called names, this, that, and
the other for the last four years, I'm going to
take my victory lap. I absolutely get it, one hundred percent.

(50:21):
I understand it. I've gotten the nasty emails. I understand
you guys, I understand, But what does that accomplish other
than making you feel better temporarily? So and That's what
I'm looking at In the long run, we can all
talk about how we hate device of politics and how
nasty the campaign was, and we don't want that anymore.
But if we continue to engage the way that we

(50:43):
always engage, then yeah, it's going to be nasty, and
it's going to keep being nasty. So one of the
things I hope about this election cycle is that the
kind of vitriol that we saw, especially in the last
four weeks of this election, will undermine future efforts to

(51:04):
broadly paint an electorate with a brush that is not flattering.
I do think that any candidate whoever, ever, ever utters
out loud, I don't care if they're alone in their
shower at home. Any candidate who says anything disparaging about
the other candidates' supporters is an absolute fool because there's

(51:28):
no hiding it now, right, there's no you can't. Oh,
I didn't say that. No, the Internet is forever, and
people are not as dumb as they used to be,
so now they're digging in. They're trying to find the
information that they want, and they're looking to see if
what they're being told is true. Yesterday I had Scott
Jennings on CNN's panel. Scott Jennings is like I knew

(51:52):
him when he worked for Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. He
worked for McConnell's office, so I got to know Scott
a little bit. Not well, like we're not braiding each
other's hair. But I really like the guy. He's a
really nice guy. But I had no idea until I
saw him on CNN just how how powerful his ability
to discuss, describe, and break down conservative values and issues

(52:17):
for the other side really was. He's a national treasure,
for God's sake. And yesterday he looked directly at a
Democrat strategist and said, your team relies on the fact
that you think your voters are too stupid to look
for the truth, and in reality, a lot of them weren't,
and that is why Trump won the election. Yesterday, Mandy,

(52:41):
I one hundred percent agree with having good sportsmanship. That
being said, can you please play ding dong? The witch
is dead coming out of your next break?

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Now?

Speaker 4 (52:48):
Is that nice? Are we gonna know We're not gonna
do that? Not nice? Not at all, Hey, Mandy, total agreement,
especially when it comes to family and friends. The hard
part is the horrible We have a horrible, horrible media,
and they deserve nothing but mocking and derision. Now this
is where, as a person trying to rise above, I

(53:11):
should be like, no, they're great, you should give them
another chance. But even I can't sell that, just can't.
When we get back, we're gonna do a very quick
interview with our friends at COFA, the Fellowship of Christian Athanoi,
Colorado Outdoor. I can't remember what COFA stands for. I

(53:31):
know what it means, it's in my head, and I
cannot remember what it means. I shall find out. But
we're talking about the annual turkey shoot that we talk
about all the time. Every year they do this. It's
a fundraiser. Kids can come out, learn a little bit
about gun safety, have some fun, and maybe win a turkey.
I'll tell you about that next. I'm talking about paper
turkeys and it's all part of cofa's annual kids Free

(53:54):
paper Turkey target shoot. Joining me now, Mike Brooks and
Leslie Allen with KOFA are here to talk about it. Mike,
this event is an annual tradition. I bet for a
lot of families who come out to do this. Tell
me all about it.

Speaker 13 (54:10):
Well, it is we get a lot of parents that
look forward to getting their kids to the event. And again,
we have a lot of different things going on. It's
just not necessarily trying to shoot to win a turkey.
But we got a rock climbing wall six station. Goodness,
parents is los seeing their kids climbing the wall.

Speaker 10 (54:27):
I don't know how it is.

Speaker 13 (54:29):
There's no way in God's green earth what I try that.
But you got ar tree, you got a crashroom, and
the kids can rotate, they can keep going back to
these other events after they shoot and try to win
a turkey.

Speaker 10 (54:41):
And so we've been doing this for several years.

Speaker 13 (54:43):
And one of the main goals when we started doing
is to get the kids off the electronics. And as
you know, that's a real problem with kids today. They
seem to sit on the couch and are just so
obsessed with games. But let's get them involved in an
outdoor kind of situation, whether it's experients and activities that
are just for them. It's not for the adults. It's

(55:04):
just strictly for kids.

Speaker 4 (55:06):
So Leslie, tell me a little bit about the logistics
of the event. How is it going to work. You
got age groups, what does that look like.

Speaker 14 (55:13):
Yeah man, he gives from eight to fifteen compete by
shooting at paper targets to win.

Speaker 12 (55:18):
There are four age categories eight.

Speaker 14 (55:20):
To nine, ten to eleven, twelve to thirteen, fourteen to fifteen,
and the kids in each category have an opportunity to
win an eighteen pound frozen turkey for Thanksgiving. Second place
is a friar chicken, third or two cornish game hens,
and fourth places a gift card from Walmart.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
So what do the kids get out of this? Other
than getting off their tablets for the day, what do
the kids get out of this, Leslie Man?

Speaker 14 (55:45):
It gives the kids an opportunity to spend time with
their parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles and friends, off
their electronics and participating in some outdoor related activities.

Speaker 12 (55:55):
It's a really safe and fun environment for the kids.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
It just details wonderfully with what cofa's mission is. Mike,
tell me a little bit about that.

Speaker 13 (56:06):
Our goal is to experience activities in the outdoors. And COFA,
you know, is Christian Outdoor Fellowship of America. So we
do outdoor activities for families, for adults, for kids, and
one of the things we're trying to do is get
people just any outdoors because so many are so tied
up and busy with work not able to do things

(56:28):
and activities with their families. But here we're providing the activities,
we're providing places to meet, and it just seems to
be a real good fit for introducing families to the outdoors.

Speaker 10 (56:39):
And it seems to me that this has been working
really well.

Speaker 13 (56:42):
We're growing, We're going in some states now, we are
in Poland, believe or not, with a military the army,
and so it is international.

Speaker 10 (56:51):
It's just it's moving along.

Speaker 13 (56:52):
But people see the importance of getting kids, you know,
any outdoors.

Speaker 10 (56:57):
So for example, we have.

Speaker 13 (56:59):
Kids Outdoor and Adult Survival. We have just all kinds
of classes Dutch o them and there's so many Mandy.
If you go to the website, you can kind of
take a look. We're starting to work on next year's programs,
but if they want to get involved.

Speaker 10 (57:14):
They can go to COFAUSA dot.

Speaker 13 (57:16):
Org and take a look at our events and we're
going to be adding new events probably mid December for
the winter and spring and summer.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
I don't know if you guys have anything like this,
but I did a Becoming out an outdoors Woman seminar
over a weekend in Florida with a Fish and Game commission.
It was an absolute blast. And to your point, I
learned how to cook in a Dutch oven. I learned
how to read the woods. I learned how to identify
poop in the woods. It was just a lot of
fun and you wouldn't think so. I got a question

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from the blog Real Quick ideal kid ages. I have
a five and three year old. Can they bring their
five and three year old even though the shooting contest
starts at eight? What does that look like?

Speaker 14 (57:56):
Absolutely, We'll have coloring pages for the little guys. So
and we have lots of events and so yeah, they
can participate in the crafts. They can even try at
archery or the climbing wall. We've had little bitty kids
on the climbing wall.

Speaker 12 (58:12):
So yeah, absolutely, all right.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
Where is it.

Speaker 12 (58:16):
It's at ten four five five West Sixth Avenue.

Speaker 14 (58:19):
It's at the Colorado Adventure Point building Sweet one fifty
in Lakewood. So it's near Kipling and Sixth Avenue on
the front edge road on the north side of the freeway.
Tell people to look for the ten foot blow up
turkey on the side of the Freeway or the COPA
Kids Turkey Turkey shoot sign. And also when they register

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at the table, if they mentioned they heard us on
KOA with with You Mandy Connell, we'll give them a
ticket for a free combo meal which includes a hot dog, soda, chips,
and a cookie.

Speaker 4 (58:51):
Oh that's awesome. That's really good. So don't forget to
tell him you heard about it on KOA. That's really important.
One last question, people are not to shoot the flatable turkey. Correct. Correct,
guys all happening this Saturday. Correct. I want to make
sure we get that out. So it's this Saturday at
the Colorado Adventure Point in Lakewood. It is right off

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Kipling and sixth Avenue or Highway six on the frontage Road.
So make sure you go. Make sure you mentioned that
you heard it here on KOWA. And I know you
guys are going to have another. Oh you need sponsors, Mike,
we didn't even talk about that. Let's talk about what
kind of sponsorships do you have available and who would
you want to work with to sponsor something.

Speaker 10 (59:30):
Well, that's a great question. As we're drawing.

Speaker 13 (59:33):
We want to help businesses that have outdoor products or
products that would be good for the family.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
But you know, this is an.

Speaker 10 (59:42):
Expensive it's expensive for cold.

Speaker 13 (59:46):
To rent this building it and we'd like to have
people that are wanting to help. We're looking for sponsors
that would like to get on our web page. We can,
you know, get their business on there. There's a lot
of things that we can do four business as we
help each other. I don't know if you knew this
last but Shields did a hamshoot for Easter. We did

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it up in Jonestown and Leslie, how many people that
we have at ten at that one? Parents and kids?

Speaker 12 (01:00:15):
Well, I mean we had just four hundred and sixty
five kids alone.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 12 (01:00:20):
Yeah, parents and grandkids and everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:00:25):
So that is incredible.

Speaker 12 (01:00:26):
Kid's close to one thousand in total.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
That is absolutely incredible. Well, I know you're going to
have a great event. How can they get in touch
with you? Guys? Mike? I put a link on the
blog today where people could click and get information about
this event and more information about KOFA. Is it best
to go through that website and go through the contact
us to get where you want to go?

Speaker 10 (01:00:50):
Leslie wants you to help her with that. That's the
part I don't get so.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
The contact information is all at the bottom of the
web page. I just looked. I got it in front
of me, So yeah, you go ahead, Leslie.

Speaker 12 (01:01:02):
Our website Cofausa dot.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
Org, Goofausa dot org. Guys, I know you're gonna have
another stellar event this weekend, and it's good to see you.
And let me know we didn't talk about the hamshoot
last year. We totally could have made that happen.

Speaker 13 (01:01:16):
That's awesome, Mannie. Thank you for you know, just sharing
and promoting this great kids event. And we really want
to make sure kids have a blast. And it's just
for you know, half a day.

Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
Yeah, and it sure.

Speaker 13 (01:01:27):
Beats them sitting at home and just doing nothing. Get
the kids up with their parents and they'll have a blast.

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
See. I saw what you did there, Turkey shoot have
a blast. I got you, Mike, I got you, Mike Brooks,
Leslie Allen, thanks for making time for me today. All right,
all right, guys, thank you, And you know that is
always such a fun event, such a fun event, and
I hope you and your family can go and do

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it because it is outstanding and you could win a
free turkey. You could make that happen. I mean maybe not,
but the free turkey is a free turkey. I'm just saying,
when we get back, I gotta I want to touch
back on some stuff that we already talked about at
the beginning of the show, but not everybody listens to
the whole show. Those of you who do you are
my rock stars. You are my superhero listeners, and I

(01:02:14):
love you for it. But one of the things I
want to address is the National Popular Vote Compact, which
if it was actually in effect, you would hear Democrats'
heads all over Colorado exploding. At the same time, I
will explain next Vice President Harris is going to be
giving her a concession speech at two o'clock. We will

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be airing it here on KOA. Either we'll go to
the news and she will start and then I'll be
back after or I will come back and vamp until
she starts her speech and then we will run it
from there. So in the meantime, I want to address
the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. This is a dumb
ass proposition that really started to gin up support after

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the two thousand election. It kicked off in two thousand
and six with the intention of getting enough states to
equal two hundred and seventy electoral college votes to sign
on to this and commit to just assigning their electors
to whoever wins the national popular vote. Now, seventeen states

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have signed onto it so far, and only they only
make two hundred and nine electoral votes. That's thirty nine
percent of the Electoral College and seventy seven percent of
the two hundred and seventy votes needed to give the
compact legal force. Now, I think it's dumb. I think
it undermines something that is really important, which is the

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electoral college that provides protection to small states from being
overrun by big states. Kind of like, imagine if we
could have some kind of system like that in Colorado
where we could, as smaller outlying areas, actually have some
way to push back against Denver and Boulder, right, I mean,
that would be nice. That's what it's designed to do.

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But if it were an effect right now, can you
imagine the hissy fit that would be taking place in
Colorado right now? Because Trump lost Colorado by a double digits,
not very many double digits. I didn't look to see
if he outperformed last year or the last election cycle here.
I don't know. There was no way he was going

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to be. It was gonna win Colorado. And I talked
to Republicans and they were like, he's got a shot.
I'm like, no, no, he doesn't. He really doesn't have
a shot in Colorado. As a matter of fact, I'm
meant to point this out earlier. Lauren Bobert beat Democrat
Tricia Calvareti by ten points in a district that Ken

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Buck won by twenty two points. That is a really
big deal. Additionally, Democrat Tricia Calvareti one Douglas County outright
beat Lauren Bobert outright. That is not good news for
the fourth Congressional district. This means that Democrats will smell

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blood in the water and in the next election cycle
in two years, you will see more money in Colorado's
fourth Congressional district than probably any other district. And there's
no other safe district that Lauren Bobert can move to.
I am hoping this is my hope for Lauren Bobert's
next term in Congress. I want her to mature into

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someone that would rather get effective results for her constituency
instead of building a brand in Congress. I just I
find that whole thing patently offensive and that's often what
I feel like she's doing. So maybe maybe maybe she could,
you know, turn into something I don't know, Mandy, that

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can never pass constitution muster. There are legal questions about it,
so because essentially you would be giving your vote in
the state over to whatever the majority was doing, even
if it wasn't what you were doing. But again, can
you imagine heads would be exploding today? We'll see what
Vice President Harris has to say next, or I'll be

(01:06:20):
back to vamp until she comes on. But the news
is probably gonna come on. You're just it's all exciting.
We don't know what's happening, so just stick around. We'll
be right back.

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Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
We are watching at Howard University as Kamala Harris's support
have come out again. She left them hanging last night,
which I am not happy about that. I think that's
a Bush League move. But she is about to address
the audience and give her a concession speech. So we
are waiting for that right now, and we'll have that.

(01:07:15):
Oh is it happening right now?

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Are right?

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
I see everybody holding up cameras. Not yet. Oh dang it.
I have a very far away view. I've pulled up
c span so I can just see. But they've got
they're Oh, they just opened the doors. So she is
going to come on. As soon as she comes out,
we will air her comments in her entirety. Interesting, Mandy,
I'm in District FOURG and in good conscience just could
not vote for Bobert. I was talking about the fact

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that Lauren Bobert lost to district or won the district
by ten percentage points, but ken Buck won it by
twenty two. She lost Douglas County, she lost Fort Collins.
That the fourth Congressional district has changed, and I think
Douglas County has changed to a certain extent. I mean,
all the other races kind of went predictably, but that

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being a reliable Republican you're not going to be able
to get that seat. That is just not necessarily accurate anymore. Mandy.
How come the state GOP and overall party did not
assist Gabe Evans with just a close and important race
because the current leadership of the Republican Party in Colorado

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is beyond beyond incompetent. They make Jenna Griswold look like
an expert. They have to have new leadership. They have
created a Republican Party in Colorado where if you are
not the right kind of Republican, they will let you know.
They don't want your and they do not want your help.
So until the leadership changes at the GOP, don't expect

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anything from anyone. By the way, that race between Gabe
Evans and Yadira Caraveo is within like less than four
thousand votes right now, so they still they were at
last I checked. I just looked at this. I should
have kept it open and I didn't. Just looked at
this a moment ago. And it's very very close. I

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think there's only like seventy percent of the votes counted,
so that vote will definitely come down to the wire
and could we may be looking at like a recount
situation there, depending on how close that is. Yes, and
ken Buck turned out to be a weasel. Correct, absolutely correct,

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So there you go. I see people like if you're
waiting for someone to come out. I don't think people
should be walking out of that door. I'm just going
to say it. Well, waiting for Vice President Kamala Harris
to come out and give her concession speech. I saw
in the news a little while ago that they don't
know if she has called to concede to Donald Trump,

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which is pretty standard. I mean even Al Gore called
to concede to George W. Bush before then he took
his concession back. So I don't know. By the way,
a Texter, Fort Collins is CD two and Joe Negus
CD four is Loveland and windsor there are. I've just
was looking at the map I was just looking at
and it appeared to show part of Fort Collins in

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CD four, But I'm not going to doubt you because
I haven't done a deep dive on that. So the
race between Yudira Caraveo and and Gabe Evans is still going.
The race in the Congressional third District between Adam Frisch
and Jeff Heard is also not declared, although it looks

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more and more to me that if the returns come
in are consistent to what we've got now, that Jeff
Heard will be the representative out of the third congressional district.
So the Democratic incumbents in the state here did very
very well, like handily winning them. I just want to
say a big shout out to my friend Valdemar for

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getting forty nine thousand plus votes in a district that
is so democratic that I honestly was like, are you
going to get any votes? Because it's so democratic. And
I'm just so proud of him for the campaign he ran,
and I think he has a lot to be proud of.
And of course the Democratic elite had to make fun

(01:11:22):
of the gay guy who got his butt kicked. He
did get his butt kicked, but again in a district
that is just overwhelmingly democratic. But at least he tried.
At least he tried. We are trying waiting right now
for Vice President Kamala Harris to come out and give
her concession speech that the lecturn is on the podium
and yes, indeed, the podium is the riser. The lecturn

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is the thing you stand behind, and they're just waiting,
lots of crowds outside Howard University waiting to hear what
she has to say. NBC says this. Texter reported that
Kamala Harris has already called Trump as well as Biden,
who invited Trump to the White House. You know, let
me just say this before Kamala Harris comes out to
issue her concession speech. If you're worried about things not

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going well in the United States of America, I just
want to point out to you that our actual president
has been nowhere since he was shoved out of office.
Does anybody think that. I mean, last night, there's no
way he didn't go to bed in high five Jill Biden.
You know, like Jill, I told you I could have
paid him, which is not accurate, but I could have

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paid him. Jill could have paid him. The other person
that I haven't mentioned today, Do you know who's happiest,
Ay Rod. Do you know who's happier than Donald Trump
about Trump's victory? Jared Polis. Now, I just did a
little check this morning and I went to police twenty
twenty eight dot com and it says this site is
under construction and coming soon. Jared Polis is running for

(01:12:54):
president in twenty twenty eight. If Kamala Harrison won, then
he wouldn't be able to do that. But now that
she didn't, the door is open for a Jared Polist
twenty twenty eight, So get ready for it. Get ready
for it. I've got a couple of things on the
blog that I'd love for you to see that are
not political.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Today.

Speaker 4 (01:13:14):
I'm vamping you, guys. I can't get started in a topic.
I can't do anything because I'm waiting for Kamala Harris
to come out give her concession speech. So work with me.
Don't get mad, but just work with me. I want
to remind people that if you are a veteran or
you know someone who is a veteran, we would love
for you to nominate a veteran in your life for

(01:13:36):
the seventh annual A Hero's Thank You. These are going
to be people that are going to be given a
giant cardboard check and an additional check that they can
actually cash for twenty five hundred dollars this holiday season.
All you have to do is nominate them, and you
can do that at our website. Just go to Kawa
Colorado dot com forward slash contests to get to that page.

(01:13:58):
Or you can go to my blog and watch Ben
Albright and Nick Ferguson do a little spiel about that
as well. Okay, so I've got other stuff. I do
want to talk about this very quickly. I might come
back to it later. But Benjamin Nette Net and Yahoo.
As much as I support the right of the Israeli
people and the Israeli military to seek a decisive victory

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that will allow them to live in peace, I know
and as does he Benjamin Nett Yah, who's political career
is over after this war is over, and he's had
several issues with his Defense minister, who also happens to
be a political rival within his own party, and his

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last name is Gallant, and last yesterday while we were
all watching the elections, Benjamin Nett naw who fired him? Now,
he didn't fire him necessarily for the way he is
executing the war. But listen to this Nyah who is
clashed for months with Gallant, a political rival from his
own Licud party, who has publicly criticized the Prime Minister

(01:15:06):
over what he characterized as a lack of strategic vision
in Gaza and his failure to reach an agreement with
Hamas that would return the dozens of hostages still languishing
in Gaza. But what may have sealed Golant's fate was
his announcement Monday that the army would send draft notices
to thousands of young ultra Orthodox men following a decision

(01:15:29):
by the nation's Supreme Court this year requiring them to
serve in the military. Ultra Orthodox parties, a key part
of Netnyahoo's far right coalition, have fought for decades to
enshrine military exemptions for students at religious schools, and had
threatened to pull out of the government if draft notices
went out. Galant has long argued that the ultra Orthodox

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should not be able to dodge the country's mandatory draft,
and with Israel locked in the longest war in its history,
he has doubled down, putting the Prime Minister's in jeopardy.
It was the most central issue for our existence and
our future, Gallant said Tuesday. So last night in Tel
Aviv there were protests because Netnaho has tried to fire

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this guy once before, but when he was trying to
kind of take over the Supreme Court. Their system of
government in Israel is different than ours. They don't have
a bicameral division. They have one legislative body, and the
only check or balance on the legislative body is the
Supreme Court. And Netnahoo was trying to stack the court

(01:16:35):
a bit, which was not a good idea and not cool.
It's never cool to stack the deck when you aren't
getting your way. And so it'll be interesting to see
how this all plays out. And by the way, Gallant
was the one who oversaw, not directly, but oversaw the
big pager operation that was devastating. And you cannot argue

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that in terms of taking out the leadership and the
leadership structure of Hesbola and Hamas that they have not
done a stunningly good job. Some of the issues that
are sort of swirling about this are what happens in
Gaza after and Galan is like, look, let the Palestinian
people run Gaza, but does that mean that they will.

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These are the same Palestinian people, by the way, who
elected Hamas. So Netanyau who's like, Nope, not going to
do that. That will not work for me. This guy's like, yeah,
we probably need to make that happen. It's created a
kerfuffle between them, and now Gallant is out, just out again.
We're waiting for Vice President Harris to begin her concession speech. Everything.

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The stage is set at Howard University, where she was
going to I guess, give her victory speech at the
historically black college, but instead just left all of her
supporters hanging and didn't show up last night, which I
just think is so sough week. It's weak, That's the

(01:18:05):
word I'm looking for. Weak. But we are waiting to
hear her give her concession speech. Now we'll find out
how conciliatory, how conciliatory she is, and if she strikes
a tone of bringing everybody together. Mandy, if Trump had
lost and still and had not given a concession speech,
what would immedia be saying right now?

Speaker 15 (01:18:25):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
They were plenty mad in twenty twenty when he did
not give a concession speech because the election had not
been decided. Mandy, Whitmer, Polis, Newsom, and Shapiro tried to
be good soldiers, but they didn't really want her to win.
Would have gotten in the way of their plans. I agree, Mandy,
too bad. Pete buddhaj Edge didn't run. He's smart, eloquent,

(01:18:48):
and capable. I strongly disagree with you text her. He
is smart but capable. He decided to take family leave
when there was a massive port crisis. He was nowhere
to be found. For two months. No, I disagree. I
think that upon closer inspection he will be found to

(01:19:09):
not have done a very good job as Secretary of Transportation. Mandy,
she's operating on Biden time. Maybe she's having ice cream.
I don't know. Oh ay, Rod, we have an update
on Peanut the squirrel. You all remember Peanut was stripped
away from his family's home where he'd been living as
a pet for seven years after a all awful people

(01:19:33):
called the cops on the family. Well, leave it to
the Babylon b to get right to the source of
the issue. Someone is walking up to the lectern right now.
We shall see if they are actually gonna say anything.
Is he introducing? Are we doing it? He's looking around
like is he asking people to be He didn't even
say anything. He just walked up and looked her. Oh

(01:19:54):
I bet he's making sure the teleprompters are working. And
I'm not saying that sarcastically. I think that was actually
his job. And I definitely this is a speech where
you'd want to teleprofter. But back to Peanut. The big
story of the week, Peanut dead. Now the Babylon Bee
got to the bottom of it. Of course, New York

(01:20:15):
authorities announced Peanut the squirrel died of COVID. Obviously he
did not, but they say this following the public outcry
about the state's Department of Environmental Conservation raiding a local
man's home and euthanizing his pet squirrel, who had hundreds
of thousands of social media followers. New York authorities announced

(01:20:37):
Pean up the squirrel had died of COVID nineteen bomber Bomber.
Of course that's satire because it's a Babylon b Somebody
just asked, what happened to our friend George, Mama, he
did not win. I'm waiting to see. I don't know
that the Republicans. I think I saw they flipped one seat,

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but I don't know if they flipped anything in Colorado.
Colorado became more reliably blue in this election. Mandy. They're
waiting to load the teleprompter. Maybe maybe, maybe are we
getting rid of the filibuster? Now we were told it's evil,
you know what you're right about? That wouldn't that be funny?

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If the Republicans are like in this period of conciliation,
we are going to enact some of the democratic policies
that were mentioned in the campaign. Starting now, there will
be no more filibuster, and that would be hilarious because
the filibuster is designed to protect the minority in the Senate,

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which is now the Democratic Party. This is why you
don't do things like that. This is why you don't
pass rules like this. This is why you don't join
the National Popular Vote Compact, because you never know if
a guy your state hates is going to win that
popular vote. Mandy, at least on the bright side, there

(01:22:03):
won't be another insurrection. Eh, you never know, never know.
She's probably waiting for Obama to dot the eyes on
her speech. Have you noticed the deafening silence from the
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, every other celebrity they
trotted out. Ayrod. Remember how at the RNC they did

(01:22:26):
those real American stories and at first I thought it
was cheesy, but they were honestly the most compelling speeches
at the RNC. And then we went to the DNC
and it was just politicians talking, talking heads talking. There
was like one group of quote, real people and it
was only about abortion. And I thought that made an impact,
And that, to me is kind of the story of

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this election. The Democrats thought that if they brought out
every celebrity, they could every you know, every talking had
the Avengers came out and told you to vote for
that was going to do the trick. But the problem
is is they were ignoring the real problems that people
are having, and it came back to bite them in
the butt at least so far. All right, we're at

(01:23:12):
two nineteen. I'm vamping myself to death over here. We're
waiting for Vice President Kamala Harris to come out and
tell us what she thinks about losing the presidential election.
All right, on the blog today, I have a couple
of things. Ooh, can we just talk about this for
a second? Spirit Halloween is now Spirit Christmas, but only

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in a few markets. Ay, Rod, you sent me this
video this morning, and then I found out there are
no Spirit Christmas stores in Colorado. Ooh, I would have
driven for that. It's not like we don't have the
empty retail space. So Spirit Halloween. You know, whenever a
big retail location closes, you know that at for at
least a month, they're going to get a new life

(01:23:56):
because of Spirit Halloween. Well, Spirit Halloween is now rolling
their Spirit Halloween straight into spirit Christmas. And you know,
years ago, when I was young and full of hope
and dreams, I would judge people harshly who just jumped
right to Christmas. But now I'm one of them, completely

(01:24:16):
and absolutely. By the time Thanksgiving rolls around, my house
is going to be decorated like the freaking North Pole.
And if I had spirit Christmas, that is where I
would be. If this chick messes up of the day,
I will be pissed, says this texter. Me too, Text
me too. You can always text the common Spirit health

(01:24:38):
text line Mandy or Andy, Mandy, Mandy. I'd like to
see them force everyone who said they'd leave the country
if Trump want to do so. I have an article.
I don't know if I put it on the blog
or not, but it was an article that all these
people are like, I'm moving to Spain, I'm moving to Canada,
I'm moving away. I'm like, Okay, don't let the door
hit you. Pelosi and Schumer probably got super drunk together. Yeah,

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that texter said that. I didn't say that. I am
not gonna say that, Randy. I'm not sure why people
are lamenting what could have been with a Harris administration. Considering,
she refused to tell us what that would.

Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
Actually look like.

Speaker 4 (01:25:17):
Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, Harris will show up for the
speech in time to announce her candidacy for twenty twenty eight. Okay,
so the betting markets are already up for twenty twenty eight.
I'm not even kidding. They're already going for twenty twenty eight.
And right now jd Vance is the overwhelming favorite, and
he's like two to one, and then they have a

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bunch of other people. Do you know what Kamala Harris
is on those betting odds? Two hundred and fifty to one.
Somebody asked me if I thought she was going to
run for another office. I believe her political cant or
career is over. She'll go to work for MSNBC for
a year, but she probably won't be great at that,
so she'll get cut loose after a while. I don't
think the Democratic Party wants Calma Harris to stick around.

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You know, they led Hillary back into the fold, but
she had Bill on her side, and you know there
was more to Hillary Clinton Kamala Harris. Nope, absolutely not.
So that is on the blog as well. Spirit Christmas
Peanut Dot of COVID trying to vamp here. Don't know

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what I'm doing, Come on, work with me. One group
that seems to really like the potential of Trump presidency
is the stock market. The Dow is up fifteen a
little over fifteen hundred today. S and P's up a
little over one forty six, NASDAC up five point fifty three.

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I mean, dang, y'all. Check your four oh one k today,
because that's awesome. Just check your four oh one k.
Oil's had a really big run. Excuse me, gold is
had a really big run. It's come down a little bit.
Bitcoin is it seventy six thousand and change? That is
nuts to me, Absolutely nuts. I wish I understood that

(01:27:10):
so I can invest in that. I don't understand it.
I don't like to invest in things I don't understand.
So oh, I do have the list of people who
are moving away. No, it's not the list of celebrities.
I guess Scott Beyo got on X and was listing
all the celebrities who are going to move out of
the country. Some celebrities are already moving, like Richard Gear

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and his wife announced they were moving some time ago.
They're moving to Spain or whatever. I don't have a
problem with people moving out of the country. I mean,
knock yourself out. Knock yourself out as a matter of fact.
I oh my god, you guys. I'm on Twitter trying
to find the list of celebrities that are moving out,

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and someone up. Tim Walls and his wife have taken
their place in the front row. He looks very sad.
He has such an expressive face, Tim Walls does there's
no guile there with his face because he just everything shows.
He looks super sad. Right now, he and his wife

(01:28:17):
are sitting down. There's a lot of clapping. Vice President
Harris hopefully taking the stage any second, now, any minute,
so I can stop talking. Okay, now the kids are
coming in. Everybody's there, everybody's hugging. Everybody looks very sad.
Lots of dark sunglasses at this event, very somber sort

(01:28:39):
of thing. As you know what they're doing. They're doing
the purse slip, smile a rod. They're doing that one.
Look at so close, so close. At the same time
this is going on, I have c span on. Uh oh,
everybody's got their cameras up. Well wait, maybe she's coming.

(01:28:59):
Maybe everybody wants to see it. Everybody's excited.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (01:29:04):
Vice President Kamala Harris.

Speaker 16 (01:29:08):
Good, Good afternoon everyone, Good afternoon, good afternoon, good afternoon.

Speaker 4 (01:29:32):
Thank you all, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 17 (01:29:37):
So let me say and I love you back, and
I love you back. So let me say my heart
is full today.

Speaker 8 (01:29:49):
My heart is full today, full of gratitude for the
trust you have placed in me, full of love for
our country, and full of resolve. The outcome of this
election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for,

(01:30:10):
not what we voted for. But hear me when I say,
hear me when I say, the light of America's promise
will always.

Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
Burn bright.

Speaker 8 (01:30:29):
As long as we never give up, and as long
as we keep fighting. To my beloved Doug and our family,
I love you so very much. To President Biden and

(01:30:53):
Doctor Biden, thank you for your faith and support. To
Governor Will and the Walls family. I know your service
to our nation will continue. And to my extraordinary team,
to the volunteers who gave so much of themselves, to

(01:31:19):
the poll workers and the local election officials, I thank.

Speaker 4 (01:31:26):
You, I thank you all.

Speaker 15 (01:31:28):
Look I am so proud of the race we ran
and the way we ran it and the way we
ran it. Over the one hundred and.

Speaker 8 (01:31:38):
Seven days of this campaign, we have been intentional about
building community and building coalitions, bringing people together from every
walk of life and background, united by love of country,
with enthusiasm and joel in our fight for America's future.

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And we did it with the knowledge that we all
have so much more in common than what separates us.

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:32:16):
I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of.

Speaker 15 (01:32:21):
Emotions right now.

Speaker 8 (01:32:23):
I get it, But we must accept the results of
this election. Earlier today I spoke with President elect Trump.

Speaker 15 (01:32:33):
And congratulated him on his victory.

Speaker 4 (01:32:36):
I also told.

Speaker 8 (01:32:37):
Him that we will help him and his team with
their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful
transfer of power. A fundamental principle of American democracy is

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that when we lose an election, we accept the results.

Speaker 15 (01:33:01):
That principle, as.

Speaker 8 (01:33:03):
Much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny,
and anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:15):
At the same time.

Speaker 15 (01:33:18):
In our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president
or a party, but.

Speaker 8 (01:33:25):
To the Constitution of the United States, and loyalty to
our conscience, and to our God. My allegiance to all
three is why I am here to say, while I

(01:33:46):
conceive this election, I do not concede.

Speaker 15 (01:33:50):
The fight that fueled this campaign.

Speaker 8 (01:34:00):
A fight the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness,
and the dignity of all people.

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
A fight for the ideals at the.

Speaker 8 (01:34:13):
Heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at
our best.

Speaker 15 (01:34:20):
That is a fight I will never give up.

Speaker 8 (01:34:28):
I will never give up the fight for a future
where Americans can pursue their dreams, ambitions, and aspirations, where
the women of America have the freedom to make decisions
about their own body and not have their government telling
them what to do. We will never give up the

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fight to protect our schools and our streets from gun violence,
and America, we will never give up the fight for
our democracy, for the rule.

Speaker 15 (01:35:08):
Of law, for equal justice, and for the sacred.

Speaker 8 (01:35:12):
Idea that every one of us, no matter who we
are are, where we start out, has certain fundamental rights
and freedoms that must be respected and upheld. And we

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will continue to wage this fight in the voting booth.

Speaker 15 (01:35:37):
In the courts, and in the public square.

Speaker 8 (01:35:42):
And we will also wage it in quieter ways in
how we live our lives, by treating one another with
kindness and.

Speaker 15 (01:35:53):
Respect, by looking in the face.

Speaker 8 (01:35:57):
Of a stranger and seeing a name, by always using
our strength to lift people up, to fight for the
dignity that all people deserve.

Speaker 15 (01:36:13):
The fight for our freedom will take hard work. But
like I always say, we like hard work.

Speaker 8 (01:36:22):
Hard work is good work, hard work can be joyful work.

Speaker 15 (01:36:28):
And the fight for our country is always worth it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
It is always worth it.

Speaker 15 (01:36:42):
To the young people who are watching.

Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
It is.

Speaker 4 (01:36:47):
I love it.

Speaker 15 (01:36:53):
To the young people who are watching.

Speaker 8 (01:36:55):
It is okay to feel sad and disappointed. Please know
it's going to be okay. On the campaign, I would
often say, when we fight, we win.

Speaker 15 (01:37:07):
But here's the thing. Here's the thing. Sometimes the fight
takes a while. That doesn't mean we won't win. That
doesn't mean we won't win. The important thing.

Speaker 8 (01:37:21):
Is don't ever give up.

Speaker 15 (01:37:23):
Don't ever give up, don't ever stop trying to make
the world a better place.

Speaker 7 (01:37:30):
You have power.

Speaker 8 (01:37:32):
You have power, and don't you ever listen when anyone
tells you something is impossible because it has never been
done before. You have the capacity to do extraordinary good

(01:37:55):
in the world, and so to everyone who is watching,
do not despair. This is not a time to throw
up our hands. This is a time to roll up
our sleeves. This is a time to organize, to mobilize,

(01:38:15):
and to stay engaged for the sake of freedom and
justice and the future that we all know we can
build together. Look, many of you know I started out
as a prosecutor, and throughout my career I saw people
at some of the worst times in their lives, people

(01:38:36):
who had suffered great harm and great pain, and yet
found within themselves the strength and the courage and the
resolve to take the stand, to take a stand, to
fight for justice, to fight for themselves, to fight for others.

(01:39:05):
So let their courage be our inspiration, let their determination
be our charge.

Speaker 12 (01:39:16):
And I'll close with this.

Speaker 15 (01:39:18):
There's an adage and historian once.

Speaker 8 (01:39:20):
Called a law of history, true of every society across
the ages.

Speaker 15 (01:39:29):
The adage is only when it is dark enough can
you see the stars.

Speaker 8 (01:39:39):
I know many people feel like we are entering a
dark time, but for the benefit of us all, I
hope that is not the case.

Speaker 15 (01:39:50):
But here's the thing, America.

Speaker 8 (01:39:51):
If it is, let us fill the sky with the
light of a brilliant brilliant billion of stars, the light,
the light of optimism, of faith, of truth and service.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
Ain't you and made that work guide us, even.

Speaker 18 (01:40:32):
In the face of setbacks, toward the extraordinary promise of
the United States of America.

Speaker 15 (01:40:43):
I thank you all.

Speaker 8 (01:40:44):
Make God bless you, and may God bless the United
States of America.

Speaker 15 (01:40:49):
I thank you all.

Speaker 4 (01:40:52):
Right, So Vice President Kamala Harris gives a concession speech.
It was lovely, It was aspirational. It was full of
a lot of you know, stuff and things and I
don't even know what she just said. It's fine, it's
over bright lights, sparkling skies, something something.

Speaker 1 (01:41:11):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
I don't mean to be disparaging. I actually thought that
was lovely. What did you guys think? Text us on
the Common Spirit Health text line five six six nine.
Oho ooh, this person just said, I believe in the
dignity of all, just like Kamala, even the unborn. Yeah yeah,

(01:41:31):
so far not being super well received, might be her
best performance ever, said this texter this text are not
so gracious. Thank god we don't have to listen to
her for four years. They just can't get away from
trying to divide the country. Even in the face of
horrific defeat on their part. See here's the thing, you guys,
And we're gonna take a quick break and come back

(01:41:53):
with Rob Dawson. He's gonna give us all the latest
details of election stuff coming up next.

Speaker 1 (01:41:58):
I I just.

Speaker 4 (01:42:04):
Trying to think of the best way to say this,
but I'm trying to elevate my speech. If they keep
it up, they'll never win another election with the kind
of divisiveness and negativity that was in this campaign. So
that's over. Let's take a break. We'll be back with
Rob Dawson right after this. So last night you were

(01:42:24):
at the Gabe Evans party, right, is that where you were?
I was at the Gave Evans party. Yes, So let's
talk about that for a second. That very stressful. That
race is still going on.

Speaker 6 (01:42:34):
It is now you talk to math people, they're not
so sure if he can overcome it. See, the thing is,
you're gonna get campaign spin. Mandy and I try to
look for clues in the campaign spin, like you could
tell when they're doing fake enthusiasm and when they actually
think they have something.

Speaker 19 (01:42:51):
Could you tell that? Because I have trouble selling that.

Speaker 4 (01:42:53):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (01:42:55):
The only reason why I believe them is because they
say they have data to prove it that they believe
there's a path that Evans could get closer or flip it.

Speaker 19 (01:43:04):
But the night was weird.

Speaker 6 (01:43:05):
And this is the other thing about being in a
presidential race. There's a lot of happiness in the room
for Trump, and then there's a lot of worry about Evans,
you know, right, And they feel bad for Gay but
they feel happy for Donald Trump. But I thought the
vibe was pretty positive the whole night. I think Trump
feeled that with his race the way he was. Of course,

(01:43:26):
Fox needs seem to be quicker on the electoral count
in a lot of ways.

Speaker 10 (01:43:30):
So but.

Speaker 19 (01:43:33):
Gave Evans looked happy, he wasn't despondent. He was meeting
his supporters.

Speaker 13 (01:43:38):
Now.

Speaker 19 (01:43:38):
He spent a lot of time in the war room too.

Speaker 6 (01:43:40):
But I asked someone, and I wish I got this
on tape, but I put away myself and I asked,
does Gabe Evans need to win to change the Republican Party?

Speaker 19 (01:43:52):
Like, is his race or presence of him being a
thirty eight year old enough that he's made an inroad
one versus And actually said no.

Speaker 6 (01:44:01):
He could lose and still make a signal that the
Republican Party is changing.

Speaker 4 (01:44:05):
But I think there's some validity there to that question, Rob,
because you know, we're seeing generational shifts, and I think JD.
Vance is sort of the standard bearer of ushering in
the next generation, you know, I mean, that's that is
a definite generational shift. You have this super old dude

(01:44:26):
in Donald Trump, no offense meant, but I mean he's
you know, he's going to be eighty something when he
gets out of office. But then he brings in this
young under forty guy who is a lot like Gabe
Evans in the sense that he would he would signal
a shift to the next generation, which I believe needs
to happen in both parties anyway.

Speaker 19 (01:44:43):
I think so too.

Speaker 6 (01:44:44):
I was thinking about the younger people that you talked about,
that it just seemed like the RNC actually struck a
deal or made an effort to get the younger people,
and then the Democrats try to build Clinton like, yeah, exactly,
And I was thinking about I was thinking about that
as that person was talking to me about Gabe. I
was thinking about that difference that the conventions.

Speaker 10 (01:45:04):
That we saw.

Speaker 4 (01:45:04):
So yeah, So do we have any updates on anything
else that was kind of out? I know that the
Adam Frisch Jeff Herd race looked increasingly like Herd was
going to pull that off. Do we have those final numbers?

Speaker 6 (01:45:16):
Yeah, I would say, Actually, there's a new dump and
with Caraveo Evans, and it's still he's still trailing by
about thirty nine hundred votes. So it's just they they're
getting more vote, it's just not breaking for them right
now that's coming out. There was a town of Yerie
mayors being decided right now by one vote.

Speaker 4 (01:45:34):
Oh man, that's crazy.

Speaker 19 (01:45:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:45:37):
I mean people say their vote don't their vote doesn't matter,
but the reality is, yes, in these local races, one
vote could mean you get into office or not. It
really is that close because there's such a small number.
I've bet what are we talking about? Maybe one thousand
voters they're in that eerie race, Maybe fifteen hundred How

(01:45:58):
many voters are actually in that race right right?

Speaker 19 (01:46:01):
Exactly?

Speaker 13 (01:46:02):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:46:02):
In the race total I think is thirteen thousand total.
So in the race, and then a lot of the
ballot measures for schools pass either mill levies or bonds.

Speaker 19 (01:46:13):
I'm sure you're happy about Douglas County. I know you've
been trumpeting that, but.

Speaker 4 (01:46:16):
Yeah, yeah, so the school's got money, Denver Health got money.
You know what didn't get money? Rob affordable housing.

Speaker 6 (01:46:23):
I know, and a friend of mine who is kind
of was in a group that supports or you said
it was for yes On. Tuar was kind of surprised,
but then he also realized that the messaging about it
wasn't great. That you can't give the people a pot
of money and then get the planned later, like you
need the plan first.

Speaker 19 (01:46:43):
About yeah, who's going to benefit for the housing, and
then you get your money.

Speaker 4 (01:46:47):
And I think that a part of it is that
people are like, look, I'm having trouble keeping my own
lights on. I can't afford to vote a tax increase
for myself to get somebody else's lights on. I really
think that's a big part of it. And what I
thinking about the mayor very big on that issue. I
just don't know if people are like, if the mayor's
attached to an issue, maybe I'm thinking twice about it.

(01:47:09):
I'm just wondering if the honeymoon is over, the mayor
burned through not just a lot of money with the
house one thousand and then how's two thousand initiative? I
think he burned through a lot of political goodwill and
we'll see if he's able to bring that back up.

Speaker 19 (01:47:25):
Right, He's got plenty of time.

Speaker 4 (01:47:27):
But all right, Rob Dawson, next victim, because now it's
time for the most exciting segment on the radio of
its KDE in theory. Well done, time, but well done, Rob.
I liked it. I liked it a lot. Okay, what
is our dad joke of today? Please?

Speaker 7 (01:47:47):
Well, we all know that Albert Einstein was a genius,
but his brother Frank.

Speaker 10 (01:47:52):
Was a monster.

Speaker 4 (01:47:56):
That one is a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:47:58):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (01:47:59):
I've got it. What is our word of the day?

Speaker 7 (01:48:01):
Please?

Speaker 20 (01:48:01):
It is an adverb adverb A non, A N, O,
N anonymous. I feel like that non zero none.

Speaker 19 (01:48:14):
It's an averb so it has to it feels like empty.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:48:19):
I have no idea.

Speaker 7 (01:48:20):
It is a word that means in a short time
or soon. Oh okay, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:48:28):
Easy trivia question for us? What ingredients are used to
make pesto?

Speaker 3 (01:48:32):
Uh?

Speaker 15 (01:48:35):
Me?

Speaker 4 (01:48:36):
Now, okay, easy easy for me. I thought you guys
might know this. I thought I would just go with it.
It's made from basil, pine nuts, olive oil, garlic, and cheese. Okay,
so that's the primary pesto. You can make it with
a bunch of other stuff too, though, Yeah knew that.

Speaker 2 (01:48:50):
Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (01:48:51):
Thought it was easy. I wasn't just being a jerk. Okay?
What is our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 10 (01:48:55):
Category?

Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
Today?

Speaker 7 (01:48:56):
Is the beach version of this has been an Olympics
rob volleyball?

Speaker 4 (01:49:06):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (01:49:06):
Say it day?

Speaker 4 (01:49:08):
Rob's on the board.

Speaker 7 (01:49:10):
The Brits put grid iron before this sport to refer
to the American version?

Speaker 4 (01:49:15):
What is football?

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
Directed? Okay?

Speaker 7 (01:49:18):
You just need excuse me, you need just a ball
and wall to play this sport.

Speaker 4 (01:49:24):
What's a handball?

Speaker 20 (01:49:25):
Ricked?

Speaker 19 (01:49:26):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (01:49:27):
The i TF is the International Federation for Voseball, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:49:32):
What's table tennis? Right?

Speaker 11 (01:49:34):
Right?

Speaker 7 (01:49:35):
And finally it was invented in the winter of eighteen
ninety one in Springfield.

Speaker 19 (01:49:39):
What is basketball?

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
That is?

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
But three too?

Speaker 4 (01:49:43):
That was a very respectable match, Rob Dawson, very very respectable.

Speaker 19 (01:49:48):
Yeah, it was usually get zero. So I'm happy with this.

Speaker 4 (01:49:52):
So we gotta go. We'll be back tomorrow with another
great show, and in the meantime, keep it right here.
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