11-07-24 FULL SHOW - A Buffs Fan Gets a Dream Come True

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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No, it's Mandy Connell, Manna KA n FM.

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Speaker 4 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, q A Thursday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell
joined by my right hand man to quaring sweat. I
love a Anthony Rodriguez, you can call him a rock.
We will get you through the snow and the gloom

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and the bad roads and all of that good stuff today.
And I have a bunch of stuff that is not
related to the election. I know, I know, I've got
it for you today. So I'm super exciting that we
are dut dun du dut dun dun dun dun. Oh

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don dun dun. Not quite yeah, not quite, thank you,
Vice President Harris. Not quite. We do have some election stuff,
so we're gonna do that quickly. But we also have
a couple of really interesting guests that I'm excited about.
So let's do this. Let's jump in. We'll get to
the weird stuff and then we'll get to the cool
stuff first. But if you want to read the blog,

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and you know what, let's just let's talk for a minute.
If you're not reading the blog, here's what's happening. The
people that are reading the blog are every day getting
thirteen percent smarter than you are, So imagine how that
adds up as the year goes on. If you too
would like to be thirteen percent smarter, which is a
completely unscientific number that I plucked from just thin air,

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you need to go to Mandy's blog dot com. That's
Mandy's blog dot com, no apostrophe because they won't let
you have an apostrophe in the URL, even though it's
gommat correct. And then when you get there, go to
the latest post section. Look for the headline that says
eleven seven twenty four blog A buffs Fan gets a
Dream come true. Click on that, and here are the
headlines you will find within I think.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Noone's listening office, half of American, all the ships and
clipments and seen that's called a press flint.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Today on the blog A Buffs Fan gets a dream fulfilled.
Let's get people to vote for freedom and liberty. So
more stolen ballots may have been counted in Mason County.
The Colorado legislature remains largely the same heard keeps the
third recreational pot both passed and failed in the Springs.
I just can't with these crying videos. No, it's not

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an ism that kept Kamala out. We finally know why
the RTD CHAF was fired. Why are so many women
hooking up with teen boys? Scott Jennings explains Trump's victory perfectly.
Michael Schellenberger goes even further, Twenty twenty five should be
the year of men. This made me belly laugh really
hard today. Who should Biden? George Clooney is to blame?

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A new breath wiser can detect lung cancer, porsia ditches,
it's ev plans. The botanic gardens is all lit up.
Near death experiences lead to big changes the post election
content we need. We feel you, sir, and reading too
much into dumb kids and dangerous TikTok challenges. Someone checked
on Kamala, So why we don't want a gen x president?

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And a new show with Ted Danson looks delightful. Those
are the headlines on the blog at Mandy's blog dot com.
Check it out for yourself.

Speaker 6 (03:36):
Now.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
I have one video on the blog. Normally, when I
put a video on the blog, I try not to
put videos with a lot of potty mouth and stuff
like that, because you cannot, you know, generally speaking. But
the one that I did put on the blog today
is a woman named Kelly Mano who has made a
fortune on gen X content, and she answers the question

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why have we never had a gen X president? And
I laughed and laughed and laughed. But there's a lot
of pottymouth in it. So you've been warned if you
play that at work, play it quietly. And at the
very bottom of the blog today, how are you, ay, Rod?
You're a little bit younger than me, so you did
not really live through Ted Danson's glory years. Did you
ever watch The Good Place, which is the most recent

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show he's been on.

Speaker 7 (04:18):
No, it never really grabbed me.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
It was kind of a well once I got rolling,
it's very funny. But he's got a new show out.
And the reason I'm even bringing this up is because
you know, Hollywood is youth obsessed, right They everything is
geared towards, you know, teenagers. All the movies that are
being made they want teenagers in the theaters and all
that stuff. But now that we have a lot of celebrities,

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like big stars like Ted Danson that are getting older,
Hollywood is starting to respond. And this show, it's called
A Man on the Inside, it looks absolutely hilarious. I
mean absolutely hilarious. But the whole premise is he's been widowed,
his daughter's worried about him. She tells it to do
something that excites him, so he signs up to work

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as an investigative assistant and he goes into a nursing
home undercover, and it's hilarious. And you don't necessarily think
about nursing homes or elderly people being hilarious, but this
looks hilarious. So I don't know, maybe I'm just getting
that age. I just I'm tired of of, you know,
watching people. By the way, Ayrod, did you know this

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is going to happen to you at some point? And
I don't know what the cutoff age is. Maybe one
of our texters on the Common Spirit Health text line
at five sixty six nine Ohero could answer, at what
age what's the rubicon age of when you no longer
know who any of the young famous people are? Because
I'm there, I'm there I pick up a People magazine
or a US Weekly at my hairdressers when I'm waiting,

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and I got nothing. I have never heard of any
of these people.

Speaker 7 (05:52):
Connected. So I'm not the guy to ask because I
never know.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
I'm saying, I'm just letting you know.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
No.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
You will will trust me. You know you will, because
you'll get to a point where I am. Now where
you go watch some of these movies that come out
with these young people, and they're freaking terrible. They have
plot holes so big you could drive a truck through them.
They're they're the same sappy kind of stories that are
just god awful for many reasons. And you just stop caring.
Right You're busy, you got other stuff to go, you

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got other stuff to do. You just don't have the time.
Like my daughter, Okay, my daughter's fifteen. My daughter could
probably tell you every single celebrity right now because she
doesn't have as much other plate as I do. And
she gets really mad when she's like, oh, so and
so was in this, and I'm like, remind me who's
so and so was? Well? He was in this, this
and this? Three things. I've never started on Disney. How

(06:41):
do you not know who they are exactly Yeah, that's yeah,
kind of like that, yea. So I kind of rely
on her, right, especially for new music. My daughter has
very good taste in.

Speaker 8 (06:51):
Well, all music and television and movies are totally different
now music when it comes to terrible up and coming
music and music, I mean, must be real.

Speaker 7 (07:00):
Music's been dead for a while anyway, But bad, bad,
young music is totally different.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Do you know what you just did? That is that?
That's how it starts. That's the beginning of Oh no, no, no, no, no,
this is no this yes, this is just reality.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
This has nothing to do with age.

Speaker 8 (07:16):
Music has not been as good as the good old
days for a long time.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
That is not. That is not. That's the same thing
today is a good game. Music was the absolute best.

Speaker 9 (07:30):
No.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
Eighties music was the best music.

Speaker 7 (07:32):
Seventies.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
That is the best music seventies. Seventies. I love disco
and all of that, and there was some amazing rock
and roll like rock music in the seventies. Man, But
for me, I came of age.

Speaker 8 (07:41):
In the eight Even smart young people would admit that
young music is terrible.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
That's how.

Speaker 8 (07:47):
That's actually a good gauge of whether you have a
smart young person is what do you think about today's music,
your music, and how does it compare to our music?

Speaker 7 (07:56):
And if they have the right answer, they're gonna say
our music today sucks.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
See this is what I do with Q, right, And
I promise guys, we're gonna get to some serious stuff.
But my goodness, we've been so heavy all week. Give
us a break, right, just give us a second. So
my my daughter, she'll play somebody for me, and I
will say, wow, that artist is evocative of like, for instance,
Chapel Roone. Are you familiar with Chapel Roone? The worst

(08:22):
song she has? That is her worst song. It's catchy,
but it's the worst song she has. I'm telling you
she's incredibly talented. But no, oh, stop with that please,
or a Kamala nomina or whatever. But she's got great music.
And I say, oh, this is very evocative of Stevie Nicks.

(08:44):
Write her voice just the vocal.

Speaker 7 (08:47):
Sample exactly like Good Times.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
No no, no, she doesn't sample. She just has her
voice in some songs. Is very uh, it has Stevie nicksound.
So my daughter knows, yes it and she I love her.
I think she's very, very talented. But my daughter has
turned me onto a lot of music I would have
never listened to some of it. I say, I never
want to hear that again. But like, I've been a
little bit on this tip about this chick from New

(09:13):
Zealand who opened for a band called The Wallows that
I'd never heard of till my daughter's like, can we
go see the Wallows at Redrox? So we did and
Benny opened up for her, and now I'm like obsessed
with this young artist from New Zealand. Having a kid
helps you stay on top of things and even dare
I say ahead of things just letting you know this? Yeah,

(09:34):
oh you just wait. There comes a time when you
beg for anything to make you feel young again. People
on the text line have weighed in. I think the
most common answer about forty you still have you just stop?
You still have no idea?

Speaker 1 (09:47):
All right?

Speaker 4 (09:47):
No players about forty. You can watch ted Dance's new
show on Netflix. You can watch the trailer today on
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Mandy, I've been traveling
and I'm having trouble seeing Colorado and how Senate Rais
Did the Republicans get a majority in either or? Are
we still in the I don't know what PRC means
are Also, we are not in a supermajority in the Senate.

(10:11):
Wait a minute, no is the answer. No, no is
the answer. We did not gain I think maybe we
gained one House seat. It was not a great year
for Republicans in Colorado, but with the incompetence of the
Republican Party right now under its current leadership, that's not
altogether surprising, especially with the leftward lurch that we've experienced

(10:31):
here in Colorado. That being said, the Senate does not
have a supermajority for the Democrats, which allows Jared Pelist
to veto the worst instincts of the left wing legislature,
and they can't overwrite a veto. So we did stop that.
And it's so it's such a small thing, but it

(10:52):
is a very important thing. The good news about the
legislature this year is that the most extreme members of
the legend got bounced in their primaries. So maybe we'll
have a little more pro business, you know, semblance to
the Colorado legislature. I'm not holding my breath on that
because I just I don't think that, you know, I

(11:12):
think we're really screwed until we have a functioning Republican Party. Now,
let me ask you guys, or rather, yesterday someone asked
me on x dot com. They asked me, Mandy, you said,
we need other than new leadership, what do you think
the Republican Party needs to do in Colorado? And I
thought about it for like a second and this is

(11:34):
what I came up with. But I think this is
a very very good idea. Number One, they have to
have new leadership. That's just flat out. Dave Williams is toxic.
He's a toxic brand. He is toxic to independence, he
is toxic to the gay community, he is toxic to
everyone except his little cabal of supporters in the upper

(11:54):
echelons of the Republican Party. Totally toxic. He has to go.
Then the Republican Party in Colorado needs to look at
the results of the abortion issue. They need to look
at the results of repealing the limitations on marriage that
just happened in our constitution because the kind of got
made null and void at the Supreme Court. And then

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they need to recognize that they have to get out
of the business of social issues. It's not a winning
formula formula for the Republicans now. Now all of you
pro life Republicans out there, I want to I have
a conversation for you too, so just hang on because
I can hear you freaking out at me right now.
The Republican Party needs to focus on everything that has

(12:36):
happened since the Democrats took over. Okay, They need to
focus on the rioting that was allowed in downtown. They
need to focus on the das who chose not to
prosecute any of those people. They need to focus on
the cities who settled with all of these protesters, some
of them rightfully so, but others just because they sued.

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They need to talk about crime and how the defund
the police Moved movement has negatively affected morale across Colorado,
making it harder for them to hire cops. They need
to talk about Democrats passing a repeal of qualified immunity,
which makes police more reluctant to actively police and are
only reactively policing, and who can blame them. We need

(13:17):
to talk about real estate prices and the fact that
Democrats across the state are continuing to add building codes
to our already large set of building codes in chase
of a green dream that does nothing except making building
a house more expensive. They need to talk about how
if they really want to make housing more affordable, which
Governor Jared Polis said he did, then we need to

(13:38):
go through with a fine tooth comb and find out
where government is creating barriers to getting more affordable housing
built in a timely fashion. We need to be talking
about the hit to oil and gas that has happened
in Colorado, what that means for tax bases, what that
means for employment, what that means for lost revenue to
the state. We need to be talking about things that

(14:00):
matter to Colorado's We don't need to be talking about
you know, God hates flags. We don't need that. And
I want to address the pro life movement in Colorado.
It should be a parent to every person in the
pro life community in Colorado that we are not a
pro life state. We just codified abortion rights into our

(14:22):
constitution and force taxpayers to pay for them. We have
no limitations on abortion. We can't even get a late
term abortion ban past. So shift your energies. You are
not going to be able to do it at the
ballot box, You're not going to be able to do
it at the legislature. So it's time to buckle down,
create great alternatives for women and support them and create

(14:44):
a vibrant, vibrant pro life community here in Colorado dedicated
to helping women who decide to keep their babies. Then
we need to talk about it. We need to talk
about it all the time. We need to talk about options.
We need to talk about how to help women not
have to make that choice in the first place. So
you have to change hearts and minds here before you

(15:06):
can do anything about abortion. And I know it's frustrating,
and I know that people in the pro life movement genuinely,
with their whole hearts, believe that they are saving a
baby's life, which I also believe they are trying to do.
But the reality is much different on the ground, and
what we're doing now is not going to work. So
instead of spending thousands and thousands of dollars getting petitions

(15:26):
to get something else on the ballot that's gonna lose,
let's just go ahead and address the problem at the
local level in a focused way and create an environment
in Colorado where women really have options. I hate to
say it, but create an environment in Colorado where the
only women who are getting abortions are coming here from
out of state. That would be a perfect world. So yeah,

(15:48):
it is definitely a different environment here in Colorado, and
we have to have Republicans get their act together. We
need strong I got to tell you, and I said
this to a couple really connected political people the other day,
if the Republicans are not actively seeking another candidate to

(16:08):
replace Jannet Griswold now she is term limited out after this,
but we need a Secretary of State that will address
the concerns and issues of voters in Colorado who are
not quite sold that we are the gold standard of elections.
I have an update on the mesa county stolen ballot
story that is quite alarming. We're going to get into

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in just a few minutes. So that is what we
need to have happened in Colorado. We're going to go
through a few election related things a little bit later,
but first coming up. Oh no, we got our first
guest at one. I got two guests today and they're
both I'm very much looking forward to them. One of
them is a man named Riley Rhodes. He's seventy two

(16:51):
years old and a lifelong cu buff fan, and he
is having a wish granted this week because of Jeremy
Bloom's Wish of a Lifetime that's the charitable affiliate of AARP,
the grant's life changing Wishes to older adults, and Riley
was nominated. He's got a great story. He's super excited.
He gets to go to the game, he gets to

(17:13):
meet the team, he gets to meet the coach, and
he's super excited. We're going to talk to him a
little bit about that later and then we're going to
talk to the CEO of the American Culture Project. What
is the American Culture Project. It is a I don't
know if they call themselves a think tank or a
policy tank, I don't know, designed to help move undecided

(17:33):
voters in swing states to vote for liberty and freedom
over bigger government bureaucracy. So we're going to talk to
John Tillman at two thirty today about that. So it's
going to be a little bit of election stuff and
a little bit not of election stuff. And I'm guessing
at this point you guys are probably okay with this.
Now I want to ask you guys about the last

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twenty four hours on social media because but have you
seen the unfettered vitriol from the sore losers who are
mad about Trump getting reelected. It's making it hard for
me to live by my promise to be a uniting
force and to extend grace and be a gracious winner.

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When I see someone saying Trump supporters should all die,
I'm having trouble with that. Have you seen it? Are
you seeing it as well?

Speaker 8 (18:25):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (18:25):
I've seen it.

Speaker 7 (18:26):
You know my age age thirty.

Speaker 8 (18:29):
Yes, you know it's probably being seen by me by
the people my age.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Mandy,
I just want you to know you're always welcome north
of the border to buy Ammo cheap gas and fireworks.
Please stay for a meal while you're here the free
State of Wyoming. Let's race. The State of Wyoming just
sent me an invite. You don't get that every day?

(18:54):
They just don't, Mandy from Republican state chairman. I would
be a terrible state chairman. I am not good at
glad handing. Do you know what glad handing is? It's
like where you go and you schmooze and you ask
people for money. I'm just it's not my skill set.
I'm not good at small talk. I've never been good
at small talk. Is anybody really good at small talk?
If you are, give me the give me the clue.

(19:15):
I try. I try, But I'd much rather have a
meaningful conversation, even if I just met you. Sometimes I'll
have really deep conversations with people in line at target
or something, and I find that more gratifying than small talk.
But a lot of raising money and going out to
be the chairman is predicated on small talk, and I'm
just not good at it. Okay, let me take a
quick time out. Just realize what time it was. Wait

(19:37):
a minute, I've got yeah, I got two clocks, two
clocks with different times on them. Be right back after this. Mandy,
have you attended a caucus meeting. If you have, you've
seen the problem. In most districts, the only people attending
are the old school conservatives entrenched in there. Thinking I
have been a delegate to county and state assemblies. Your
goals won't be met unless you get more grassroots participation

(19:58):
by younger members. Remember we at KBB and she couldn't
move things exactly. The caucus system sucks. I'm just going
to say it. I have gone to caucus meetings. I
was one of three people in my area that showed up,
and they're too incredibly time consuming at a time where
people do not have the time or desire to spend

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an entire day sitting around with a bunch of other
people talking about politics. So you're absolutely right, Texter, that
is one hundred percent the problem, which is why I
supported rank choice voting because it would have completely undermined
the caucus system. I do think that more and more
candidates are just going to skip the caucus and it
is going to become a completely just afterthought. Whoever the

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caucus chooses is just going to be an afterthought because
they're going to be too extreme to be elected in
the general election. That's what I predict is going to happen,
this person said Mandy. Small talk is an opportunity to
find out what motivates the person you're talking to, then
use that to persuade them in some way. Example, ask

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about the new Broncos QB and it may lead to nothing,
but they mentioned their sign. Then ask about the sign
and they light up and talk about their school's football
team for ten minutes. Find an angle with the Sun's
football team by listening and asking probing but general questions.
Then attempt to lightly persuade them or at least leave
your contact. But don't just switch from listen to persuade,
get a like comment that wraps into a question they

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wouldn't want to answer. That's my thought. But you have
a purpose behind your small talk. I'm talking about true
small talk. You're at a party, You're talking to people
you're never going to see again, and they could be
very nice people, but you're pretty sure you're never going
to see these people again. But you're expected to stand
and be entertaining. So I like this strategy if my

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goal is ultimately to influence them in some way. But
the reality is much different. Mandy, my husband and I
moved to Indiana in January. I found out today that
on Veterans Day, elementary school children host lunches and appreciation
events for veterans proud to be back in Indiana. Guess what,
So do schools in Douglas County, Colorado. So do other

(22:05):
schools around in the Denver metro. They invite anyone who's
a veteran to come in that. Lots of schools do that.
The challenge is to find a follow up in Colorado.
How long have you lived here? Is good? What brought
you here? Et cetera. I love that you guys are
giving me tips. I mean, I absolutely love this. Love love,
love it. People get a lot of happiness from connections.

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Try to find something in common? How much? Oh dang,
hang on you guys. Let me change my update here
to a longer period of time because you're updating so much.
This one says, please. People get enjoy a jolt of
happiness from connections. Try to find something in common. How
much snow at your place? Where did you get your
que shoes? You lived in Florida too. I don't worry

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about saying stupid and name things because someone out there
is lonely or dealing with something serious and appreciate someone
taking an interest in them. That is a great way
to look at it. I think I'm gonna change my
view on that, so we shall see. We shall see. Now,
I got a couple of things I want to touch on.
I was asking a rod what he was seeing on
social media. But I have this on the blog today
and I'm you know what, I'm just gonna read you

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what I said because I The headline on the blog
says I just can't with these crying videos. And then
I say, oh my goodness, there are a lot of
left wing people crying on the internet. I don't mean
whining crying. I mean turning the camera on themselves to
film themselves crying and then putting it on the internet.

(23:34):
I just can't. You guys, when did crying in public
become a desirable thing? When did showing yourself being upset
become content creation? I freaking hate this. So I'm gonna
tell you why. I'm doing my best to be kind,
but someone needs to tell these people the truth. If
you don't know what I'm talking about, this is a
good example. And oh my gosh, you guys, there's a

(23:55):
woman I'm just gonna describe what is on this Twitter video.
And she of course has a giant nose ring in
those big glasses and an olive oil haircut, you know,
and she is talking about seeing another woman on the
street and they just they just looked at each other
and they knew it was so awful, And so she

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made all these assumptions that because she saw another woman,
the other woman was also as upset. But the kicker
is this, when you go to the beginning of the video. Okay,
you go to the beginning of the video. She looks
down at the camera to make sure it's on, and
then she starts talking, What is this?

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Why is it?

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Why is portraying weakness a positive thing? Now? Why is that?
Because ultimately, I'm not saying all crying is weakness, but
being so mentally weak that you cannot handle your candidate
losing is It's not something I would amplify. Here's the thing.

(25:02):
Am I going to hire that person now if they
walk through the door of my business for a job interview?
Not a chance in hell. Because the first time I
say to them, you know, this project that you're working
on needs a little improvement. What are the waterworks gonna
come out? And yet there's a whole genre of this
people crying. People will set up a camera, they will

(25:23):
then walk, you know, to a different place in the
room that's in the camera shot, and then they'll kind
of crumple on the floor so they can cry, but
they do it on film. What is this? We have
elevated victimhood to a status that people are seeking. Now,
this is one of those things I do not understand.

(25:44):
I do gen X when we got you know, down
on ourselves and started feeling sorry for ourselves. Our parents
were right there to tell us that somebody around the
world had it way worse than we did. Remember all
those starving children in Africa that we had to eat
all of our food, no matter how much we felt
about it, because they were starving in Africa. Our parents
always had a reality check. And now we have people

(26:05):
openly weeping on the internet because they didn't get their way,
and their parents are not calling them and going, what
is wrong with you? Stop it, just stop it. I
love this text message. By the way, Mandy, I'm a
mom to one of those young girls crying on social
media videos. I also voted for Trump. It breaks my

(26:25):
heart that these young people do not have the mental
stability or capacity to stand back from this election and
separate what happens in Washington from what happens in their
own homes. Well said, mom, very very well said. And
here's the deal. I think, and I've thought about this
a lot. I think the reason that these people are

(26:48):
getting so upset about their team losing this is a
different kind of upset that occurred in twenty twenty on
the right, though there were people just as angry on
the right, as these people are upset the people on
the right like they got robbed. I understand being angry
about that, But this overwhelming sadness and feeling of doom
and gloom is only possible if you believe that government

(27:11):
should control your life. If Kamala Harris was president elect today,
do you know exactly you know how? I feel exactly
the same way I feel now. I'm a little happier
because think policy wise is going to be better. But
I don't think Donald Trump is going to change my life.
I don't think he's going to do anything that is
going to have an immediate, lasting impact on my children
or my family. I don't believe that. But if you

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believe that government is your daddy, when daddy isn't the
daddy you want it to be. That is when you
film yourself crying on the internet. We're going to take
a quick time out. We'll be back right after this.
How can't wait to get Kamala in that office in
twenty twenty eight? And their comments are just lit up
by fellow Democrats who are like, are you insane? Have

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you lost your mind? Now? Let me give you some
good news. Jeff Heard has kept the third Congressional district.
In the R category, he defeated Adam Frisch, but it
was a lot closer than it should have been, and
part of that is because Frish got so much money
when he was running against Lauren Bobert that he had

(28:18):
a huge pot. But Jeff Heard pulls it out and
that will remain in the R category. Another interesting election
result comes out of Colorado Springs. Now you may not
have known or paid attention, but recreational marijuana sales were
on the ballot in the Springs not just once, but twice.

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So one ballot measure, Question two D prohibits retail marijuana
establishments within city limits. Now, that would have amended the
charter of the City of Colorado Springs to prevent those
stores from opening in the city limits. The other question,
question three hundred A, mend's the ordinance to allow existing

(29:03):
medical marijuana licensees to apply to become licensed as retail
or recreational marijuana businesses. They both passed, which is rather
schizophrenic in a way because they passed with nearly identical results.

(29:23):
I mean so close it's not even funny. So Colorado
Springs says, first of all, we do not want recreational
pot in the city limits. Oh but unless you already
have medical pot, then yeah, we do want you or
to have medical No, I don't know what this means. Now,
smarter minds of mind have come out and said that

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this likely means that the amendment to the city Charter
preventing retail marijuana establishments from being in the city limits
will over override the other one that would have allowed
retail marijuana establishments in the city limits. But what a
bizarre result that is. And this is why sometimes voters
are are what's sort I'm looking for dumb? I mean,

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I'm just gonna I'm trying to think of another way
to say it, but yeah, it's it's just dumb, just
really really dumb. So let me give you the numbers
on two D. Two D pass that was the one
to amend the city Charter. It passed fifty two point
four percent yes to ban those stores in the city

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limits to forty seven point six percent. But then ballot
Question three hundred, which would allow medical marijuana stores to
sell recreational pot, also passed fifty three percent fifty three
point six percent to forty six point four percent, So
it passed with a little more of the vote. I

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don't understand this Colorado Springs. I'm genuinely confused by this.
That is the most schizophrenic result I've ever seen. I've
never seen anything quite like that, Mandy. The language was
very confusing. I'm sure people didn't understand what they were
voting for down here. That is probably accurate. I think

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that's the best and most reasonable answer, and it goes
to show how bad our title board is doing in
their clarifications on these descriptions. Mandy, you are one hundred
percent right on the GOP staying away from social issues
that a supermajority don't support. Thank you, Thank you very much, Mandy.

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Elections do make a difference in my personal farming business.
The month Biden declared war on fossil fuels, costs went
up thirty to forty percent. Yeah, yeah, I guess so,
guess so, Mandy, when does Prop KK take effect? That
is the new tax on guns and AMMO, and it's

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just an attack on legal gun owners. They're trying to
make it so poor people will not be able to
afford guns or AMMO. So if they feel like they
need to protect themselves, they are going to have to
get a gun and MO in a different way, which
is unfortunate because then that puts them forth. I'm talking
about normally law abiding citizens. If they need to protect themselves,
if they live in a tough neighborhood, if they want

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to be able to protect their family, they're determined to
make these guns and AMMO just too expensive for people
to buy. All right, So I've got a little clarification
here from a text on the Common Spirit Health text
line Mandy's Springs. Pop three hundred, allowing currently licensed medical
pot shops to apply for recreational license to sell was
a complicated bill and use deceptive language. When researching the bill,

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I had to reread it several times and was looking like, huh,
same tactic you Several years ago when EPCO El Paso
County commissioners used deceptive language to extend county commissioner terms.
Once voters found out, there was a backlash and the
term extension was later voted on to reverse it. Because
that wrote op ed piece on Prop three high hundred's

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deceptive language, some voters were confused by Prop three hundred
language equals contradictory vote results. Spring City Council voted oppose
it poison pills statute preemptively if either prop passed. So
there you go, There you go. Your last segment is
great verification that Prop one thirty one is a pipe dream,

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that of course ranked choice voting and voter you may
be right. One of the saddest things I've had to
do this election cycle is realized that I give voters
too much credit. We will be back with a great
story about a CU buff superfan who's getting a dream
come true. We'll tell you about that after this.

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Speaker 4 (33:54):
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hour of the show. Quick note from the last hour,
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the tax on AMMO and firearms goes into effect April first,
twenty twenty five. What an appropriate day they add. Now,
my next guest is a man who has been a
life long UCU buffs fan, dedicated fan. He was a
ticket holder season ticket holder from nineteen seventy seven to
two thousand and four. Now Riley Rhodes needs a little

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bit more help. So he is in a long term
care facility and he has just been granted a Wish
of a lifetime. Now we interview Jerry Bloom Jeremy Bloom
here fairly recently about Wish of a Lifetime. What is
now a charitable affiliate of AARP. What they do is
grant life changing wishes to older adults and they want

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to inspire people to redefine aging in America. Riley joins
us now to talk about his big adventure coming up
very soon. At see you, Riley. It's great to see you.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
That's great to see you too, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
So tell me a little bit about how you became
a cu Buffs fan. What happened there?

Speaker 5 (35:23):
Well, I just grew up to junior high school in
high school and just all them all they could you know,
they're games on TV and their Bowl games and all that.

Speaker 9 (35:34):
So I was just.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
I was a lifetime fan of them.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
So when you found out that Coach Prime was coming
to see you, because they had some rough years there, Riley,
I don't need to tell you they had some rough years.
When you found out coach Prime was coming to say,
what did you think?

Speaker 2 (35:55):
I was so excited.

Speaker 5 (35:57):
I just started watching the videos of him on there
from the very.

Speaker 7 (36:02):
Beginning I hired.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
He was actually a so I'm riding his bike around
the Champions Center there.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
So yeah, now you're going to get to You're going
to get to meet him as part of this adventure,
are you not?

Speaker 9 (36:18):
I would hope so, I think, So, what are you most.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
Looking forward to as a as a season ticket holder?
You've probably seen a lot of football games, but now
you're going to get it kind of an inside view.
You're supposed to meet some players and a coach the
day before and then get to go to the game.
Have you ever had the opportunity to go behind the
scenes before?

Speaker 5 (36:39):
Not really, No, I've been kind of there at the
game Ball Center when they march. The band marched through
to see them, you know, but they have me going
to meet the band on Friday afternoon, so I'll give
you that. When they march down Pearl Street.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Are you going to get to march down with him?

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Well more or less?

Speaker 7 (37:04):
I think you know.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
You carry the big drum marching band, so I like that.
What did you play in marching band.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
Well, I played the French arm but in the marching
band I played the altonium is like a small baritone?

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Wait a minute, what is that again? What is it
a small baritone? Of what.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
Altonium is a smaller size baritone?

Speaker 4 (37:36):
I don't know what a baritone is, Riley. I'm not
a musical person, and I certainly can't play an instrument.
So you've lost me at that. Is it a saxophone
or is it its own instrument? What is it?

Speaker 9 (37:48):
There's a brass instment, you know.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
All right? So, Riley, what are you looking forward to
the most out of this adventure?

Speaker 5 (38:01):
Well, just the whole experience really, you know, I just
meet the team everything, watch him play in person now,
So yeah, that'd be really exciting.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
I'd like to ask Tammy a question because she is
one of the administrators at the senior living facility where
you are. She's the one that nominated you. Tammy, what
made Riley stand out that you would nominate him for
the wish of a Lifetime with AARP. Well, I've been here.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
At Loveland Village for about two and a half years,
and over that time I just got to know Riley
and we kind of each mutually figured out that we
had a big heart for the CU Buffaloes and football
in general.

Speaker 9 (38:46):
So they kind of started off.

Speaker 10 (38:48):
With, you know, Riley would kind of come to my
office and share news articles about CU Boffs and also
other football teams. And then, you know, especially during a
football season, you know, then usually every Monday we had
to catch up on the game and all the great
stuff that happened. And it became even more so when

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Dion Sanders came to coach the Buffs. And so, you know,
over this course of time, I've just gotten to know
Riley better and I kind of discovered a few things.
You know, that he was almost a thirty year season
ticket holder for the Buffs, that it had been twenty
years since he's been able to be at a football
game in person at Folsom Field, and so I just

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kind of thought, you know, boy, would I be able
to love to figure out a way to get him
to go to a game. And it was right about
that same time that I found out about Wish of
a Lifetime and so I thought, you know what, maybe
I'm going to submit Riley for a wish And so
I did that over the summer and.

Speaker 9 (39:46):
We found out.

Speaker 10 (39:47):
I think it was in August, hey, Riley that his
wish was being granted, so so yeah, so it's been
pretty exciting since then. And I'm so excited for Riley
for the experience that he's going to have.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Well, I'm excited for you too. I'm gonna let you
get rested up. You got your Buffs Jersey. Are you
ready to get your Buffs gear on to go to
the game.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (40:12):
Yeah, I bet they're going to give you some new
gear to wear as well too. Riley and Tammy, thank
you so much for making time for us today. I
love Wish of a Lifetime and I really am happy
to bring some more awareness of what that actually does.
Because Tammy, what a great thing for you to be
able to give Riley a great wish and he's going
to have the opportunity to go watch his beloved Buffs

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play and meet some players because of Wish of a Lifetime.
If you have an older person in your life that
has a wish to be granted, I would urge you
to look up Wish of a Lifetime and nominate them
as well. Riley, thank you so much for your time today.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Go Buffs, Go Bobs. Thanks Riley and Dammy. Appreciate you
guys making time for us today. All right, that is
just a sweet story. And if you know anybody who
is older and would like to fulfill a wish, they've
done some really amazing stuff, like super amazing stuff, So
definitely check that out. And I love the concept of

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helping older people experience things that maybe they wouldn't be
able to experience anymore, because older people have dreams too
that never never get fulfilled, you know, And what a
great way to do that. And Jeremy did sell the
whole thing to AARP but they are continuing in the
tradition in which he started it. I love all of you.
A baritone is a small tuba, not a salsophone, a

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tuba a small tuba. A baritone is like a smaller
version of a tuba. Also, my son, a baritone player,
says he can't listen to you anymore. Well, that's disappointing,
is it? Because I can't play an instrument or know
what a baritone is. And if you've listened to the
show for any length of time, I have tried. I

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have tried. Flying waitress doesn't know what a baritone is,
why would a flight attendant know what a baritone is.
That doesn't make any sense unless you just wanted to
get what you think is a shot in at me,
because trust me, I don't care. I've heard all of
those so many times before. It's kind of tired as
an attack point. You can't march with a true french horn.

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So what he's saying is it looks like a big,
fat trumpet, so to speak. Why can't you march with
a true french horn? What's the problem with that? I
love asking people that play the french horn how they
ended up playing the french horn, and ninety eight percent
of the time, maybe ninety eight point five percent of
the time, they say some variation of well I showed

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up for band and that was all that was left.
I'm not even kidding. Ask somebody who plays the french
horn how they ended up playing the french horn. You
will be shocked and delighted to find out that I
am correct, absolutely correct. So we've got a lot of
other stuff that we're going to talk about today, and
I want to get some of it in. I want
to talk about a story that is just a story,

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that is one where you think to yourself, well, that's
gross and you move on. But these stories seem to
be more and more prevalent around the country, not just here.
Ours is one about a twenty eight year old woman
who is named Chloe Castro. Chloe Castro was employed by

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Jeffco Public Schools and she was working at several schools
as a social worker. She had been working at Manning
Middle School, Drake Middle School, and Wheat Ridge High School
since August as a social worker. She is now being
accused of having a sexual relationship with one of the students. Now,

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when I was young, I knew of and one of
them I knew for sure. The other one was just speculative.
In my high school there was a teacher, a male teacher,
that had multiple relationships with female students. Now, this was
back in the seventies and eighties, you guys. I mean,
it just was a different time. And I'm definitely not
saying it's better, but it was not a big issue

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at that time. I'm sure to the girls who were
victimized by this, it was a big issue going forward.
But in the last two years, when was the last
time you saw an article about a man being arrested
for having sex with a child. In their care a
teenager whatever, I haven't seen any and I went back
and did a quick look. I found one guy in

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Michigan or Minnesota, I can't remember which one was one
of the m states and not Montana though, And the
one guy like three years ago who had an inappropriate
relationship with a female student. But these women keep getting arrested,
and they keep getting arrested for having inappropriate relationships with children.
I can't I tell you how gross this feels to me.

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It just feels so disgusting. I don't understand it. And
before any of you guys say, well, was she hot?
I mean, I wish my teacher hooked up with me
when I was in high school. Before you say that,
you really need to think about the fact that these
people are in a position of power, first of all,
and these are children. They're under the age of eighteen.

(45:27):
They are children. They might be teenage children, but they
are children. I just got a text. Bet she's hot. Honestly,
maybe when she's all dulled up, she's attractive, but wearing
the orange jumpsuit and the tiny breed she has in
you know, she's not hideous, but she's certainly not like
you know, a fem fatale again. She might look better

(45:47):
with makeup. I don't know, But does it matter? This
is this is an issue that we need to be
clear about, and that is this, when someone is in
any sort of power position over another person and they
engage in a sexual relationship with that person, that sexual
relationship can never ever be truly equal ever. And it

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doesn't matter whether if it's in the office and you
have a relationship with someone who is a subordinate to
you or the other way around. If you're in that
position right now and you are in a relationship with
someone who is higher on the food chain than you are,
I will give you a piece of advice. And I
learned this the hard way. Find another job. Unless you
are going to get married and you are engaged with

(46:34):
a date and a ring, find another job because ultimately,
if something happens, the person in the power position almost
always will keep their job and you will be moved
along to something else. Mandy. Recently, a male teacher was
arrested in Adams County for the same thing. That's usually
it's a male coach, right. The male coaches are the

(46:56):
ones that keep getting in trouble. So oh yeah, yeah, Mandy,
I think you underestimate these teenage girls and these teenage boys.
They're still children. I mean you, guys. I see girls
at my daughter's high school that look like they are
twenty five years old, but ultimately they are still inhabiting
the body of a fifteen or sixteen year old girl

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with a fifteen or sixteen year old girl mind. And boys,
don't even get me started. Some of them look like
they're twenty years old, but their brains are probably twelve
years old. And to say that, well, it's the students
who are seducing. The teachers. We are the grown ups.
We are the people that have to say nope, that

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is inappropriate and that's not going to happen. And here's
the kicker. I have talked to so many male teachers,
especially young male teachers. You know, they're not quite thirty,
they're out of high school. They come to teach, They
go out of their way to avoid any any sort
of inappropriate contact. They don't they if they are talking

(48:03):
to a female student in their classroom, the door is open.
One teacher at a high school once told me that
if he has to have a conversation, a serious conversation
with a female student. He will ask one of his
female colleagues to come into the room so they can
have the conversation with witnesses, because he said, it's so
bad that I don't want any parent to ever think

(48:24):
I have ever done anything inappropriate to their child with
their child about their child. So I have to go
to great links. But what about these female teachers. What
is going on? Why would a grown ass woman risk everything?
And so many of these women are married. I mean, really,
would you trust a fourteen year old with the most

(48:45):
important secret of your life? Honestly, you know, this is
one of those things where if you're the sort of
person who's going to have an affair, I mean, are
you choosing about who you're going to have an affair
with in terms of do you think that they're going
to keep their yap and a fourteen year old boy
getting laid. No, he is not going to keep his

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yapper shut. And I don't know how old this kid was.
They have not released how old this kid was, so
you know, I'm fourteen, fifteen, sixteen thirteen, she's working at
a middle school. We don't know. But nonetheless, this is
just a terrible choice. And I don't understand what is
happening with women that they have decided this is okay?

(49:27):
Can someone explain that to me? Now? Men, And I'm
not giving men a pass on this, but men are
much different animals in terms of how their brains work.
They are visual animals, right, They're visually attracted to pretty things,
and at their most base biological levels, they are trying

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to reproduce with the prettiest and most attractive things. So
that's what they're drawn to. For most women, you're looking
in a situation where you're looking in a sexual situation.
You're looking for someone who could be a good providers,
someone's strong. I'm talking about your basic biological urges. I'm
not talking about women on tender who are just looking
for a good time. And I don't understand why someone
would say, yes, a fourteen year old boy, that's a

(50:10):
good choice, super good choice. I'm just baffled by this stuff.
It seems like they are more and more frequent, and
I just think that's incredibly gross. And I'm glad my
sons are grown and I'm glad my grandsons are homeschooled. Mayday,
you should track both cases and watch which one gets
the harsher sentence. Want to guess, I don't know. I've

(50:31):
seen some of these women get really like a significant
amount of jail time. My dad met my mom at
a party when my mom was seventeen and my dad
was college age twenty three. She was in high school. Today,
you would have gone to prison for that relationship. Both
they were married over fifty years. So I'm watching this
documentary on Elizabeth Taylor on Netflix. It's really really good,

(50:53):
really good. It's all based on these audio tapes that
the author of her life story was putting together. So
they play the audio and then they add in you know,
old home movies and old movie clips and things like
that as she talks about all of her relationships. She
had two marriages, very very quickly, to men that were

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twenty five years older than she was, and one of them,
she says was the love of her life. But he died.
And I think to myself, like now, now when I
see a Hollywood celebrity, and I'm just going to use
Leo DiCaprio for this, because he's really the worst defender.
Leonardo DiCaprio is almost as old as I am. I'm

(51:35):
fifty five years old, and he only dates women that
are like in their early twenties. At what point does
that just get gross? At what point do you're like,
grow up, manchild, grow up? But you know what, he's
Leonardo DiCaprio and do whatever you want. Mandy. A former
colleague of mine lost his teaching job because several girls
conspired and made up stories about him later proved false,

(51:56):
but it was too late. And that is exactly what
I'm talking about with these male teachers who know to
the greatest lengths to ensure that nobody can ever say
I was alone with him and this is what happened.
It's sad but true. But I'll tell you what. If
we really want to viciously prosecute a war, put middle
school and teenage girls in charge of it, because they

(52:19):
are horrible when it comes to the machinations that they
can come up to come up with. Rather, Mandy, we
need to figure out why it's attractive women. I don't know, Mandy.
Perhaps you get to a point. Maybe the older women
are just trying to manipulate the younger men because they
can't handle a strong and independent male. I always feel

(52:39):
sorry because a lot of these women are married. God,
what an embarrassing thing as the husband, really really embarrassing. Mandy,
my number two daughters started teaching geometry at a high
school in Tucson at twenty one. She said, these kids
are so aggressive, and it's more the girls than the boys.
She had to be so purposeful and intentional in setting down. Yep, Mandy,

(53:02):
I'm a thirty seven year old male and still have
the mind of a twelve year old. This is only
this is only a partial joke, ask my wife. And
just part of your charm. Just part of your charm, Mandy.
When I was in school, all the teachers look like
undercover agent and monsters. Inc gross. Yep, Mandy. Male teachers

(53:26):
won't even meet with a female student anymore for fear
of being blackmailed or false accusations. I would think that
teachers all over would be concerned about the same. We're
gonna take a quick time out. When we get back.
I've got another fantastic, absolutely fantastic idea. Let's make twenty

(53:48):
twenty five the year of men. Okay, it wasn't my idea,
but I'm gonna steal Shawn Duffy's idea. We're going to
talk about that next. I want to share a part
of a column by Shan Duffy in Today's Denver Gazette,
because this is something that is kind of a growing,
growing problem that we have to fix and in it well, no,

(54:08):
let me just share part of it with you. American
society needs to man up. And the election just concluded.
The yawning chasm between the candidate choices of men and women,
particularly younger Americans, received overdue attention. Poles taking this fall
showed a fifty three percent gap between young men and women,
with the men supporting Donald Trump and women flocking to

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Kamala Harris. This isn't a gender gap, it's a gender canyon.
It's been customary over the decades to look at differing
political attitudes among the sexes from the perspective of female voters,
but this year, as young men found a home in
Trump world, we saw a focus on the political attitudes
and frustrations of young American men. Legacy media have been

(54:51):
curiously studying what they believe is a new phenomenon, when
in facts, it's been brewing for decades. The reporting was
like a nature show studying exotic species in the rainforest.
Yet young men haven't been hidden in a canopy of trees.
They've been among us and are reacting to decades of derision,
a feeling rightly or wrongly, unwelcome, unneeded, and a nuisance

(55:15):
to society's progress. One of the most important chronicles of
this serious problem is the writer and scholar Richard Reeves.
No conservative, he worked for many years at the Bookings Institution,
a respected center left think tank, before launching the American
Institute for Boys and Men. Throughout the campaign, Reefs stress
dress that despite the shallow accusations about toxic masculinity from

(55:39):
callous progressives, men have not migrated right word on issues,
continuing to be socially moderate to liberal. The issue is
not their political attitudes, but the attitudes of the political
system toward them. They're feeling left behind. In the real world,
the interests of men and women are not pitted against
each other, however much our culture warriors tell us differently.

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It is hard to create a society of flourishing women
if men are floundering, Reeves writes. Yet they are floundering
and worse. The statistics are sobering, stagnant wages, a significant
decline in male college enrollment, an epidemic of loneliness a
spike in suicide. We need to cut a new path
with purpose for men, pointing them towards what Center rights

(56:24):
scholar and Arthur and author Arthur Brooks called earned success.
Earned success reassures us that what we do in life
is of significance and value for ourselves and those around us.
To truly flourish, we need to know the ways in
which we occupy our waking hours or not based on
the mere pursuit of pleasure or money or any other

(56:46):
superficial goal. But that's not how society treats boys. From
the earliest years. Schools seek orderly, compliant behavior that is
far easier for girls than boys. The message too often
sent to boys is they're an irritant to be dealt
with with, so they're diagnosed, medicated, and constantly disciplined. Boys
who grew up into young men don't wish to be sidelined.

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They yearn to be celebrated as people of purpose and
value and skill despite the ruckus and rambunctiousness. As the
author John Eldred points out in a seminal work Wild
at Heart about the masculine journey, boys want to know
that they have what it takes. They'll spend a lifetime
seeking the answer to this question, often with meandering, frustrating,

(57:27):
and destructive results. There's nothing wrong with society intentionally encouraging
men to aspire to a life that is good and
noble and praiseworthy. Yearning to provide for a spouse and
children is not selfish patriarchy. It's servant leadership, filled with
a profound meaning and value. Let's help them find fulfilling work,

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no matter the salary attached. Let's honor the trades and
men who get dirty at family sustaining jobs. Let's stop
the coddling of men living on the public dole and
show that there's purpose and dignity in all way, and
that there's dissipation and despair in useless idle idolation, isolation.
Eight decades ago, C. S. Lewis diagnosed the decline in

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society's respect for and demands of it's men, calling these
shadowy people men without chess. We make men without chess
and expect them of virtue and enterprise. We laugh at
honor and are shocked to find traders in our mist.
We castrate and bid bid the geldings be fruitful. Let's
make twenty twenty five, the Year of the American Man.

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I could not agree more with this sentiment. I am
so tired of us blaming everything on men on this
so called toxic masculinity. I'm so tired of telling young
men that they are incapable of doing anything without a
woman's permission. It's so incredibly destructive, and we see it

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in the number of men who have just kind of
not launched, who are still living with their parents, or
are wildly underemployed with no real means to move forward.
We have told them time and time and time again,
you're the problem, You're the issue. And to the point
of in this column, when Sean says, look, we expect

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little boys to behave like little girls in school. He
doesn't say it like that, but that's what he means.
I will never forget volunteering in the queue's kindergarten classroom. Now.
I am not a person who seeks out other people's children.
Most of the time, I just like my own children.
But being in that classroom taught me one very valuable thing.

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Little boys need to have time to mature before we
force them into this kind of artificial construct of behavior.
Because little little boys sometimes are physically unable to sit still,
and we ask them, we put them in these situation
where they are forced to sit still when they're physically

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unable to because they are too full of energy, they're
too active. And I just always thought that was absolutely terrible.
As a matter of fact, I talked to the principle
of the school and I said, you know, and of
course this is how I talk to the principle of
the school. I said, you know, in Finland, where they
have some of the greatest education in the world, children
don't even learn to read at all until they are

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seven years old. They don't learn any they don't do math,
they don't learn how to read, they don't learn how
to write, they don't do any of that. They don't
even start it until they're seven years old. Do you
know what they do in school before that? They play,
They experience things outside, They dig in the dirt, They
negotiate with each other to create a strong social contract

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with their friends that don't involve adults. You know, now,
we micromanage children. We don't allow them to just freely play.
We have play dates and structure and we're going to
go do this and we're gonna do this craft, and
we're going to do this thing. And when I was
a kid, we ran wild, and if we had an
issue in the group, we worked it out in the group.

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If we made up a new game, we made up
the game together, and we all knew the rules. Sometimes
our conversations ended in fisticuffs, not recommended, but you know what,
nobody really got hurt and the situation got settled. And
we don't allow kids to do any of that, especially
little boys. I genuinely think that little boys and little

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girls should be in separate, gender separated classrooms. And before
anybody yells at me about separate but equal and all that,
it's very effective. There was a school in elementary school
in Florida, in Lee County, Florida, where the principal advocated
for gender specific classrooms for her elementary students, and she said, look,

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let us just do this experiment. Let us just divide
it up, because little boys and little girls they're different
in the way they learn. So the little girls would
sit there quietly and do their work. And every half
hour in the little boy classroom, the little boys went
outside for five minutes to run around, get some energy out,
and come back in maybe every hour. I think every
half hours too much. Every hour. I can't remember exactly.

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It's been a long, long time ago. So they manage
those classrooms differently, and both classrooms excelled. Now, lest you think,
what if the boys get a bad teacher and the
girls get a good teacher, they swapped for subjects. They swapped,
so everybody got a great science teacher, everybody got a
great English teacher. They just treated the kids differently based

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on their energy levels. So, yes, Sean Duffy, I am
down with this. Twenty twenty five should be the year
of the American man. And I don't mean one of
these men who are crying on social media right now.
I mean manly men doing manly things and not be
ashamed of it. Don't be ashamed of it. Some of

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us appreciate you very very much. We'll be back right
after this. Got a lot of text messages on this
on the Common Spirit Health text line, so let's dip
into some of those. Mandy, you hit your last topic,
hit a nerve. I have two sons, thirties, successful and
yes tall, both single because, as my youngest says, I

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can't find a girl that doesn't have an OnlyFans account
or a kid by some loser. He shared me with
crazy stories of girls expecting him to start buying well,
hang on to start buying them presents after one date.
We strategized where to find a potential wife that wasn't
online or in a bar, church, animal shelter, et cetera.

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With no luck. He's emblematic of a broken culture and
that's why birth rates are crashing and we are in
trouble as a society. That complaint added in with how
about the girls that don't want to date you if
you voted for Trump or you're not politically active. What's
funny is I saw a story about a woman in

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New York, New York City who had given up dating
liberal men though she herself was liberal, because she found
them to be basically dormats. And women we don't want
a dormat.

Speaker 9 (01:04:08):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
Granted, there are some women who love a doormat because
they want somebody to dominate, right. They want somebody to hendpeck.
They want somebody to to say and tell them how
to do everything. And guys, there are certain men who
need that. And I know you're out there shaking your heads,
but I bet every single one of you has a
buddy that has an overbearing wife, but he's perfectly happy.

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He might grumble a little bit, you know, he might
complain a little bit, but that wife has probably made
him a much better man than he was before. Some
guys just need that, but some women also need a
strong man to push back on them. I am one
of those women. My husband is an incredibly special and

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I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean
that in the good way. He's a special dude because
he is perfectly happy to not only let me do
a job that puts me in the public eye, he
encourages me, he supports me, and he has no ego
about it whatsoever. Do you ever wonder why it's so
hard for people like j Lo to stay married. I mean,

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you probably haven't spent a ton of time thinking about this,
but part of it is is that a lot of
men cannot be in a relationship where they perceive their
wife to be the star of the show. It's too
damaging to their egos. Or they're the kind of guys
that have no ego, and I don't want to be
around those people anyway. My husband is the perfect mix

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of manliness at the same time also being incredibly supportive.
I count my blessings every day. Now. Don't get me wrong,
he is not perfect. He can be a bit of
a pain in that, you know what, just as I can.
But I would prefer to hear about men like that
Texter just sent me about her sons. Then only have

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men who were raised by those kind of single cat
women who right now are telling their boys that they
should be incredibly afraid because Trump got elected. Right. I
don't want a bunch of those kids. Don't get me wrong.
I'm sure they're gonna be lovely adults. Man, Mandy, I
agree with you on your last segment. Did you see
Jimmy Kimmel's monologue last night where he's tearing up about

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the election results. I voted Harris, but was laughing so hard.
You got to see it. Yeah, yeah, Oh, you just
reminded me text sir. I haven't seen any text messages
from the obnoxious jerk who texted me multiple times this
past week to tell me that Harris was gonna win,
and I would be I should just shut my mouth. Oddly,

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nothing so weird, so so weird? Huh, Mandy, we're raising
a five year old gen X squared. He's a boy.
He's in the garage with dad. He loves working on
snowmobiles with me, catches snakes, and plays in the mud.
He is wild. We were told at conferences that he

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is a model kindergartener. I say all that to say
I believe it's possible to raise good children many ways,
but it has to start with morals and responsibilities at home. Absolutely,
one mandate gender specific classes would be great, But how
does that happen with thirty two different genders? Now that
is a legitimate question right there. Yeah, I think I'm

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just gonna leave it on that note. Just leave it
on that note. When do we get back? I got
so let's do a two minute drill. Now, let's not
do a two minute drill because I got stuff. Okay,
when we get back, this is what we're talking about.
So last night I'm watching CNN. I'm now watching cnnn MSNBC,
just for this week, just to let you know I
haven't lost my mind. But I'm watching CNN and the

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panel is sitting there talking and Upper asks the question,
should Joe Biden pardon Hunter Biden? Wait until you hear
what Chris Wallace said about it. We're going to talk
about that next news traffick and weather coming now keep
it on KOA.

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works to get people to vote for freedom and liberty.

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Imagine that. Imagine that. But right now, I want to
start with a little bit of stuff, kind of fallout
I guess from the election. There are growing calls from
right wing sources, and this one is National Review. So
National Review says, and this is at least start their column.

(01:09:14):
The first thing Joe Biden should do this morning is
invite Donald Trump to the traditional visit in the Oval
Office between the outgoing and incoming president. Biden should extend
all the traditional and lawful assistance to Trump that is
appropriate in anticipation of his forming a new administration. Biden
should then move to use this constitutional authority to pardon

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Donald Trump of all pending federal charges and relieve Special
Counsel Jacksmith of his duties. He should then ask New
York Governor Kathy Hocheld to use her authority to pardon
Trump for the crimes he was convicted of in New York.
Now they go on to talk about it, but this
is Paywaald, and I could open it earlier, can't open

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it now, but I know what it says. So let
me just tell you, do not remember this if you're
the same age I am. But back in the day
after Watergate, when Richard Nixon was caught flat footed when
he sent some people into the Watergate hotel to spy
on the Democratic Party, he stepped down, but there was
issues whether or not charges should be filed for his

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role in that. When Gerald Ford took over as president,
one of the first things, if not the first thing,
he did, was to pardon Richard Nixon. He didn't do
it as an act of political partisanship. And I truly
believe this if you go back and look at gerald
Ford's comments at the time. He did it because he
wanted the country to move forward. He didn't want to
have the spectacle of having a former president of the

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United States being purp walked and dragged through court for
his role in the Watergate. He figured Richard Nixon had
been had been, you know, chastised enough by having to
step down for the presidency, and then he wanted the
country to move forward, and he wanted them to move on.
It's the same argument to be made for pardoning Donald

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Trump and a lot of the left wing meltdowns. Yesterday,
he was convicted at forty five felonies. Now, let's be real.
He was convicted in a court full of Democrats by
a democratically appointed judge in a city or at least Manhattan,

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that overwhelmingly voted for Joe Biden. It was as low
hanging fruit as you could possibly get. He was convicted
for documentation issues, business documentation issues, and it had to
do with him paying off Stormy Daniels. The whole purpose
of that prosecution was to embarrass him because they wanted
Stormy Daniels to take the stand and talk about Trump's unit.

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I guess you know, I could have gotten a conviction
in that situation. To be perfectly honest, the Jack Smith
Duff stuff is not even decided how they're going to
get a rin on the Supreme Court's immunity ruling, and
what is going to happen. Jack Smith says, we're winding
down our investigation because once Trump goes into office, they
can't prosecute him then. Now, I don't think Joe Biden

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will do this, although he might. I does anybody else
think that Joe Biden was probably super happy about the
election results the other night because he always thought he
could win. I mean, he couldn't. He clearly could not
win after that first debate. There's no way Joe Biden
would have won this race, No way, no how. But
at least he could have gone out with dignity. The

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Democrats took dignity away from him. And yeah, all that
stuff about Joe dropping out, he's practically George Washington practically.
He's not, but practically George Washington practically. So the other
pardon question that needs to be answered was the one
that I saw on CNN last night. To the person

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who sent me this, Mandy, who is punishing you by
making you watch CNN and MSND? I wanted to see
over the last couple of days if the left media
was taking any culpability for their role in getting Donald
Trump elected, because I honestly believe in their fervor to
make sure he didn't get elected. They ended up pushing

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people into Trump's camp because they said so many things
that were just outright lies, outright lies, just fabricated crap
out of whole cloth, the Liz Cheney firing squad being
right at the top of that list, right. They fabricated
all these things counting on the American people being too
dumb to fact check them, and we weren't because we
all have a little fact checking machine in our pocket

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called our cell phones. And by the way, they have not.
They have not. So watching CNN last night and Jake
Tapper asked the panel should Joe Biden pardon Hunter Biden,
and Chris Wallace did not miss a beat when he
just said, I would. If it were my kid, I would,
and I had to be honest, if it were my cad,

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I would. Because Joe Biden's legacy is completely destroyed, completely
and utterly destroyed. He has no future, He really has
no significant income options going forward, and since the Biden,
entire Biden family has been living off the grift of
Joe Biden's name, I don't know how they're gonna make money.

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Who thinks that another Hunter Biden painting is gonna sell
for one hundred thousand dollars anyone, any And I don't
see anyone raising their anyone raising their hand, No, no
hands went up. So weird, so so weird. So I'm
asking you, should Joe Biden pardon Hunter Biden? Would you

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pardon your kid if you had the chance, Because I'm
gonna be absolutely honest, yeah I would. But I think
I'd like to think anyway that I would be magnanimous
enough to reach the point where I recognized that pardoning
my greatest uh you know, a political foe, is also
the right thing to do. I don't think Joe Biden's

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going to pardon Trump. He has been known to have
a very vindictive streak. That's not me, that's not a newsflash.
He's got a fifty plus year career in the Senate
and Congress for us to look at. He can be very,
very spiteful and vindictive. But then he might pardon Trump
to be spiteful and vindictive to the Democratic Party. I

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think that we do not understand the depths of Joe
Biden's rage about the way he was stabbed in the
back by the Democratic Party, and I think that's again
I've said it before. I think that's why he immediately
endorsed Kamala Harris. And then this texter says that Mandy,

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I think Jill and Joe did everything to sabotage Kamala
and force him out. YEP, I agree. I agree. After nude, Mandy,
now is the second Secretary of State? Sure of those numbers?
Or is that adjusted for password leagues?

Speaker 6 (01:16:10):
Ha?

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
Ha, that's very funny, very funny. Hi, Mandy. We know
that Joe Biden is brother and Hunter. We're all involved
with shell corporations and hiding money they receive from Ukraine
and China. Who's gonna go after Joe Biden? No one.
I'm just yeah, no one, Mandy. I watched the view
yesterday just to see the meltdown. Mandy. I'm a huge Trumper,

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but yes, Biden should pardon Hunter. He is blood. Joe
voted for Trump. Oh my god, you guys, that's hilarious.
Can someone photoshop a picture of Joe voting for Trump
on his ballot? Please? Can we make that happen. I
don't have a single person saying they wouldn't pardon their kid.

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I would one hundred percent. That's what parents do, It's
who we are. He said he wouldn't pardon, but he will.
That Texter is making a great point. Jone has already
said if he got re elected he would not pardon Hunter.
Well guess what. He didn't get reelected. He was shamed
and embarrassed. He is now crawling out of office instead

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of walking out of office. The man has nothing to
lose by getting his kid off the hook. Something I
think we can all understand. Let's take a quick time out.
We'll be right back. You can text us your answer
five six six nine ozero when we get back. This
is Texters on the whether or not Joe Biden should
pardon Hunter, and you guys are bringing some more thoughtful responses. Mandy.

(01:17:37):
If I were responsible for turning my kids into a
waste of skin as Biden is, I would pardon him.
If I wasn't, I wouldn't, but I would kiss the
next president's but to get him to do it. The
right set of events I think is this, Biden pardons
Trump of everything federal and convince his states to drop
all the other law fair in exchange for Trump pardoning

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Hunter and insulating the Biden crime family from investment mitigation
on the corruption the evidence says they are guilty of.
That is the most politically palatable solution. Text her very
well done. As far as pardoning my son or daughter
if I was the president, it would depend on the
crime they had committed. You know, that's a good point.
We're talking about financial crimes and tax crimes and lying

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on gun purchase forms. Nobody died that we know of
from Hunter Biden's actions, So I get that's an excellent point.
Would I pardon the cue if she killed someone, like
if she just got mad and killed someone, Probably not.
If I thought it was really self defense and maybe
she was a charged, you know, convicted of manslaughter. I

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don't know. I don't know. Always have and always will
love my children, but never pardon them for wrongdoing. If
you did the crime, you do the time. I get it,
I get it. But if I'm eighty something years old
and on my way out of politics, I'm doing it.
I'm doing it. Mandy. The other question is, if Biden
doesn't pardon Hunter, should Trump pardon Hunter? If Biden pardons Trump,

(01:19:10):
then yeah, but why would you do a favor? Why
would you do a solid for Joe Biden if he
didn't do anything for you? I mean, God, the one
thing I know with certainty about politics is it is
definitely a quid pro quo all the time. Everybody's looking
for what they're getting out of it. Hey, Mandy, I
wouldn't cry too much for Joe and Jill falling down

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the hill. I'm sure the Chinese will find some use
for them. No, that's the thing, you guys. They have
nothing to sell anymore because they've been selling access to
Joe Biden for decades decades. But who wants access to
a guy who his own party threw him out? Man?
Just man, always wait wait, hang on, let me squirrel here.

(01:19:58):
Uh hi, Mandy is Kama been considered as the front
runner for twenty twenty eight? No? No, she acts like
she doesn't want to get out of politics. But does
anybody remember where dan Quayle was after he is vice president?

Speaker 9 (01:20:17):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:20:18):
Hmm, weird me either, me either? Mandy Hunter will be
pardoned Joe's last laugh at Trump and the Democratic Party
wanted to be Potus. But at a price, Mandy, that
was part of Pelosi's deal. Drop out and you get
to pardon Hunter. That makes sense. I mean, that genuinely
makes sense, Mandy. I hope they do a good sweep

(01:20:41):
of the White House looking for incriminating bags of white
powder and illegal firearms left behind by Hunter. Maybe maybe
we shall see, Mandy. Check out this way. I can't
already saw that. I already saw that. Somebody sent me

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the unhinged employee of the University of Oregon. He's actually
the assistant director for a fraternity and sorority life at
the University of Oregon, and he recommended in this video
that he himself created and then put on the internet
that Trump supporters should kill themselves. That's the one that
made me kind of hard for me to be gracious

(01:21:24):
about this. I'm trying really hard, you guys, Mandy. Someone
else pointed out that Jill wore a red dress to
vote on Tuesday. Okay, that's pretty funny. That's very funny, Mandy.
The part of your own children is shows what oh
the pardon of your own children shows the cultural rottenness

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country at one. Okay, no, I can't that. Please check
if your voice to texting, just give it a glance.
Because none of that made sense, not a single bit
of it made sense, all right, Mandy. The Dems promised
him money or something big if he got out. Curious
to know if they will still stick to it since

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they subtenly sabotaged the Harris campaign. I actually think it
was more vicious than that. I think Nancy Pelosi called
and said, if you don't drop out, we're going to
invoke the twenty fifth Amendment to get you out. That
is what I think she did, because that woman would
stick a shive in your heart. She'd stick a shive
in the heart of her mother if it worked for
her politically. We'll be right back, keep it on KOA.

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One guy who has been working to move things in
the right direction at the American Culture Project is John Tilman,
and he joins us now to talk about the election
and the results that I just mentioned. Hi, John, Welcome
to the show.

Speaker 9 (01:22:42):
Mandy. Great to be with you and your audience. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
So let's start with what you see in this election
because the American Culture Project. For first of all, we'll
let you explain what the American Culture Project does, because
I think that's an interesting mission that you guys are on,
and then we'll talk about your view based on that
framework of what happened in the election, So what does
the American Culture Project actually do.

Speaker 9 (01:23:07):
Well this election cycle?

Speaker 11 (01:23:09):
We were very involved in Georgia in voter engagement, helping
people learn how to vote by mail, request their ballot,
turn in their ballot, early voting, and then day of voting,
so very much get out the vote effort, and there
was a lot of other people working in Georgia. This
is one of the elections where we really saw all
kinds of people from the conservative infrastructure, if you will,
working really well together to.

Speaker 9 (01:23:30):
Get voters out and educate voters.

Speaker 11 (01:23:32):
And I think what's interesting, going back to your premise,
is what American Culture does is educate voters. And in particular,
what we're focused on is what the left puts into
group identity Blacks, Hispanics, single women, younger voters.

Speaker 9 (01:23:47):
LGGTQ, all those voters.

Speaker 11 (01:23:50):
The question of what the left wants them to think
is that their identity is the most important part of
their life. What we want to say to them, and
what President Trump successfully said to significant portions of those audiences,
is your life situation is the most important thing. Who
you are overall is very important, and your identity is
a crucial part of that. It helps you define who
you are, but it shouldn't trump your life situation, the

(01:24:11):
opportunities you seek, the dreams that you have, how you
want to build your family and community. And I think
that's the story of this election. I'm hoping it is
the beginning of the depth and group identity politics which
is divisive. Instead, we should all be talking about our
common journey in America to build our individual lives as
part of a common American dream.

Speaker 4 (01:24:31):
One of the things the analyzes I've seen coming from
the right side of the aisle is that this election
was as much a repudiation of identity politics and out
of control wokism as an election on the two candidates.
What are your thoughts on that.

Speaker 11 (01:24:49):
I totally agree with that, but with an additive. So
I've long said that elections are usually one of two things,
whether either repudiation elections or validation elections. So sixteen was
actually a repudiation of the Obama administration. In Hillary twenty
twenty was repudiation of Trump. Whatever you may think about
that election, that's essentially what it was. And this was

(01:25:11):
a repudiation of bignomics in the last four years, which
was a continuation of Obama. But I would add that
there's a significant which unusual is there was a significant
portion of this electorate that is validating Trump's policies. Part
of the reason he won is because he presented an
alternative policy agenda, lowering crime, lowering inflation, secure the border,

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stopped the unnecessary wars, and American security first, working with
allies well, but put American security first. It was very
clear what his policy agenda was. And in addition to that, frankly,
the social loocism from transgender with issues with children, gender
dysphoria among children, whatever people do as adults, I think
we all agree adults should have complete control of their

(01:25:52):
lives and do as they wish. But this idea of
introducing these subjects among our children is crazy.

Speaker 9 (01:25:56):
And Trump certainly spoke to that.

Speaker 11 (01:25:58):
No more men playing in sports those sort of things
I think played as well. So this was a little
bit unusual in that it was a little bit of
a combination repudiation and validation.

Speaker 4 (01:26:08):
Let me ask you this, and I'm going to use
the men and women's sports as an example because it's
such a great example of what I'm about to say.
I think that the Democrats overshot there or got out
in front of their skis by telling anyone who said, look,
you know what, maybe we shouldn't be giving life altering
drugs to children when they're four and five, because that's

(01:26:29):
not a good And immediately their response was not to
have a discussion about the rightness or the wrongness, or
the science or the not but to turn around and say,
you're transphobe. You hate it was so absurd on the
face of it, and I think for a lot of
people that issue in particular, it made so much sense
to say, we wouldn't let a five year old get
a face tattoo, Why are we going to let them

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make permanently life altering decisions at five? How much do
you think that played into it, where people just said,
I've had enough, I'm not going to participate that in
this anymore, and I'm voting in a different way to
show that.

Speaker 9 (01:27:04):
I think that's spot on.

Speaker 11 (01:27:06):
I think what's really interesting is when all this crazy
stuff started WOCUSM.

Speaker 9 (01:27:11):
In general, people who were not super political.

Speaker 11 (01:27:14):
You know, people listen to your show are probably much
more political than the average person, but most people kind
of just live their lives. They skim politics and dipping
and out every two years as elections roll up. What
they suddenly discovered is they're being drawn into these issues
no matter what. And people were koutout and scared to
even bring up their disagreement with some of the insanity. Well,
what you've seen over the last several years, and really

(01:27:36):
peaking during this election cycle, is people are tired of
being cooutout. They're speaking up, they're standing up, they're going
to the school board meetings, they're speaking.

Speaker 9 (01:27:44):
Up online, and they're rebelling.

Speaker 11 (01:27:45):
And I think this Trump was, this election with Trump
was a bit of a rebellion on these particular topics.

Speaker 9 (01:27:51):
People know that the idea of.

Speaker 11 (01:27:52):
Having meant biological men play in women's sports is insanity.
People know that gender mutilation of children that is permanent
for gender dysphoria is insanity. There are alternative ways to
try to address the mental health issues that somebody is
going through. We had union empty in this country across
our entire spectrum of politics, left right, middle, that the
gender mutilation going on in young women in Africa. We

(01:28:15):
all agreed that was a bad idea, And suddenly we're
doing these things now. It shows you how crazy the
radicals on this have become. They are the radicals, they
are the intolerant ones, and as you pointed out, they
are actually the bigots against people who stand up against them.

Speaker 4 (01:28:31):
So I'd like to ask you. I've spent the last
two days consuming CNN and MSNBC, not because I want to,
but because I wanted to see if there was any
self awareness coming from the left media. I wanted to
see if there was any light bulb moments where they
went the same conversation we're having now. Maybe we went
too far, but boy, they are doubling down. They're blaming

(01:28:53):
uneducated women, misogynistic Latino men, self hating black men. I mean,
it is ill. Are they capable of moving beyond identity politics?
Because I'm increasingly believing that they're so married to it,
and it's so enmeshed in who the party is and
honestly who the how their social structures are built. I

(01:29:15):
don't know if they can turn it off. And if
they can't, do they ever win an election again?

Speaker 9 (01:29:21):
Well?

Speaker 11 (01:29:21):
I think if if President Trump and the Republicans do
a good job during this term, they will have a
hard time winning again because the electora is being reformed
middle class and working class people, the people that feel disempowered,
not from an elite university, not from the east or
west coast or a major city. Those people are all
coming together. Whether they're black, white, or brown, whether they're urban,

(01:29:44):
they're coming there.

Speaker 4 (01:29:45):
You're hang on one second. You are super garbled right now,
so maybe turn off your camera and see if we
can get that again. You might not have enough bandwidth
their so just turn your camera off and try again. Yeah, yeah,
see if that works. How about ooh no, no, I
don't no, what is happening? Yeah, I don't know what's
going on? John, you are super super garbled. A Rod
are you hearing that too?

Speaker 9 (01:30:07):
Ok?

Speaker 4 (01:30:08):
A Rod's going to call him. Something is going on
here with our zoom, So he's going to give him
a call because I want to continue this conversation. You
would think they would learn, right, You would think that
there would be some kind of learning curve, but apparently
there's not. Absolutely not. A friend of mine just text

(01:30:28):
me and said Joe Biden showed up in Oh perfect,
Let me get John Tillman. Let me go back. I
was just vamping right there. So John, go ahead and
answer that question. If the media learns or if they
haven't learned. Do they ever get elected again? Go ahead
and give me that answer.

Speaker 11 (01:30:41):
I think they're going to be challenged to be elected
again if the Trump administration in this Congress does a
good job of passing the legislative agenda that helps working
class people and middle class people and the disaffected people
that elected them live better lies, if they bring down inflation,
bring down crime, secure the border. I think we're seeing
a generational change in the way people vote, because what
the cola is is middle class, working class people, black, brown,

(01:31:03):
and white alike. As I alluded to earlier, is the destruction.
It can be the destruction of group identity politics, and
those numbers aggregate bigger than the elite educated East Coast,
West Coast high income, and some degree those still voting
based on group identity politics. So I think this could
be a seminal restructuring of the electorate, which I think

(01:31:24):
is very exciting for the country because it's actually unifying
to see each other as individuals. Yes, your group identity
and what make sure unique, yes, but it's your life situation,
living your life here in America with your family and
your community that actually trumps them.

Speaker 4 (01:31:38):
I was going to ask you specifically about that. What
is the messaging the Republicans or people need to adopt
and believe in to break through? And my hope is
this election is the beginning of the end of woke
identity politics, because if it's not working, one thing I
know about politicians and political classes, if something isn't working,

(01:32:01):
they're willing to throw it overboard in a New York comute,
they won't even give it a second thought. So I'm
hoping this is the end of wokeness. So what messaging
needs to happen to break through that, and so we
can get more and more people to fully reject the
notion that your immutable characteristics that you had nothing to
do with are the most important thing about you.

Speaker 11 (01:32:23):
I think what has to happen is that the conservative
right has to continue to build tools of communication into
those communities and express what we believe. The conservative community
is a loving community. It believes in individual empowerment. It
believes in persuasion and collaboration on a voluntary basis to
build communities, build businesses, build families, and come together. It

(01:32:45):
doesn't care how rich you are, how poor you are,
whether you're black, brown, or white, whether you just got
here legally, or you're just senate from the Mayflower. We
all love to work together and build That's who we
are as a community. And that goes for people who
are African American, Hispanic A descended from the Mayflowers, I said,
or Southeastern Europe like I was. That's who we are.
The problem has been that we've not been very good

(01:33:07):
at making that argument. And Trump has broken through. And
I think Elon Musk, Tulca, Gabbard and RFK all coming
out and Joe Rogan show all coming out those channels
of communication to these audiences because those audiences are listening
to them. One of the most common things you hear
African Americans say is they're totally different than I thought
they were. I didn't realize Trump actually cared about me.

(01:33:29):
I went to a rally and people were so nice
to me because they've been propagandized. And you know, if
we were who as conservatives that the left says we are,
I wouldn't want to hang out with me either. But
we're not who they are. We are actually loving, kind
and generous people, and people are finally finding that out
because they don't have monopoly control over the communications anymore.

(01:33:50):
We have these memes now through shows like yours, through podcasts,
through the X platform, X platform, thank god he brought it.
All of them is breaking down their builds to control
the narrative. And that's what American Culture Project is all about,
by the way, is we want to break down these
channels that they control and build new channels to communicate
with all people about what we have in common and

(01:34:11):
how we love one another.

Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
Elon Musk posted something on X the day after the
election that just said, you are the media to followers
or you know, people participating on X because X was
a better reflection of what the electorate was thinking and
was going to do than any of the polling than
any of the punitry that happened on television, because it

(01:34:34):
was real people having real conversations with other people. So
what do you want us to do from this point forward?
What do we need to do to continue to bring
these people around? I mean, do we need to just
check off all of the insane things that some of
these poor brainwashed people on the left really think are
going to happen.

Speaker 11 (01:34:53):
I think the most important way we have found to
engage with people who maybe are not well versed on
the issues have a surface. Giving knowledge is to ask questions.
The best way to help people come to see the
world differently is not to lecture them and tell them
why you're right about your ideas. The best way to
simply ask questions will tell me. Who do you think

(01:35:14):
should be in charge of the children. Do you think
the schools should be in charge of how the children
live their lives? Do you think the government should be
in charge or do you think the parents are best qualified?
Almost anybody that's a reasonable person, even if they're from
the political left, is going to see the parents. They
should be properly in that role. And those are the
kind of questions that we want. Who do you think
should be in charge of making the decisions and where

(01:35:35):
to invest tax payer money or to people's money. Should
the government be in charge of which businesses should be
invested in? Or do you think individuals coming together should
be in charge of how to invest to build businesses?
Look at for example, SpaceX and those private investments and
how it's absolutely transformed space The government invested in bullying
and they stranded astronauts on the space station and SpaceX

(01:35:59):
how to Go Rescue one was privately run with private
investments with an entrepreneurial approach. One was completely government subsidized
in a dominating way and directed by the government. So
asking questions is the best way I think to help
people find the truth because we are we do live
in a propaganda war environment.

Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
The American Culture Project can be found at amamculture dot org.
I put a link on my blog today. John. I'd
love to continue this conversation with you in the future,
so let's make that happen.

Speaker 11 (01:36:27):
I love it, I love being with you. Thanks so
much for the opportunity.

Speaker 4 (01:36:30):
All right, that's John Tilman with the American Culture Project
and fascinating stuff. You should go. They have great information
on their website, so you can go get education, you
can talk, join a community. There's a lot of stuff
you can do there. But this is the kind of
organizational structure. And I don't know anything about John Tilman
other than he's working with this. I'm sure he has

(01:36:51):
a history I could look up. But this kind of
organization is what has been missing on the right, and
the left has been really good creating organizations similar to
this to educate their people or how they want to
educate them. So please, when I talk to you, guys
about this stuff. Support the things that we're talking about.
It makes a huge difference in the long run. We

(01:37:12):
got Nick Ferguson in today and Little of the Day. Nick,
have you ever played of the Day with me? You
know I have, and you've won every single time? Whatever
I mean, I wasn't asking for that. I was just
I can't remember. I've I've defeated so many people. Do
you want to play with you? Against you?

Speaker 7 (01:37:32):
Come on, man, you're making it tough.

Speaker 4 (01:37:35):
You do that teasing, just teasing. Well, now I'm off
site today, so you're gonna have a distinct advantage. Now
it's time. Yeah, you're gonna have an advantage. Now it's
time for the most exciting segment on the radio of
its guide And.

Speaker 2 (01:37:50):
Whoa yeah, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
What is our dad joke of the day please, Anthony.

Speaker 8 (01:37:58):
You know, of all the vengeance over the last one
hundred years, the dry erase board has to be the
most remarkable.

Speaker 4 (01:38:07):
Oh that's funny. I like that one. Yeah, these have
been really good the last days. What is our word
of the day please? It is a verb can noodle,
I mean to snuggle, like to to you know, no
nickodle nod canoodle.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:38:30):
It means the same thing, like you are spooning or.

Speaker 7 (01:38:33):
Something to caress or pet amorously.

Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
That's that's what you do with That's what That's what
I'm saying. The bark i'm giving, I'm giving Nick and
I both credits, so you get a full point. You
know what. Nick probably canoodles his wife. I can noodle
with Chuck. And we know what canonling is. We know
what we see it. Okay, Yes, today's trivia question. I
hope you all get this. Well, ay, Rod might not,

(01:38:57):
but yeah, I don't know, we'll see. The fifteenth anniversary
issue of Penthouse Magazine, released July twenty third, nineteen eighty four,
became the best selling issue ever when controversial photos of
the first black Miss America were released. Who was she?
Oh my god? If you also know this nothing, I'm

(01:39:18):
gonna be so mad at you right now. Something Kennedy,
Oh my gosh, no v Vanessa Williams. Oh man, but
Vanessa Williams lost her crown over that.

Speaker 7 (01:39:29):
Yeah, I didn't see that issue.

Speaker 4 (01:39:31):
Yeah where you were not even born yet? But whatever,
it's fine, all right? What is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 8 (01:39:40):
Please?

Speaker 4 (01:39:40):
Now, Nick, you do have an advantage because I'm offsite today,
so you're gonna be able to get this. Let's do it.

Speaker 7 (01:39:46):
Two word alliteration. Okay, two word illiteration.

Speaker 4 (01:39:50):
I love alliteration.

Speaker 8 (01:39:51):
To have this, I have no idea what this word is.
Guffa gu ffa aw Okay. To have this is to
gain satisfaction and final vindication.

Speaker 4 (01:40:04):
Manny, what's the last.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
Laugh forrect.

Speaker 3 (01:40:08):
A revenge?

Speaker 7 (01:40:10):
To word alliteration to word this start with the same letter.

Speaker 8 (01:40:13):
Yes, this fish can pack quite a punch, stunning its
prey with up to six hundred volts.

Speaker 4 (01:40:21):
Mandy. What's an electric geel?

Speaker 8 (01:40:23):
Oh, Mandy, correct, it's something that personally annoys you, not
Fluffy or Fido.

Speaker 4 (01:40:31):
Manny, what's pet pee? That's correct?

Speaker 8 (01:40:36):
Powerful influence from your equals to act in a way
acceptable to them.

Speaker 4 (01:40:41):
Mandy? What is peer pressure?

Speaker 3 (01:40:43):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:40:43):
Boy?

Speaker 8 (01:40:43):
Going for the sweep reliterative phrase for a situation that
seems okay but is inclined to gradually lead to a
bad outcome.

Speaker 4 (01:40:56):
It seems okay, you're ready.

Speaker 8 (01:41:00):
I don't know it's going to help you get it.
You are riding on a blankety blank.

Speaker 7 (01:41:06):
You're riding on a blankety blank. Uh huh, You're you're
playing on a blankety blank.

Speaker 8 (01:41:11):
Even playing field literation, no idea slippery slope.

Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
Oh slippery slope that Nick? Yeah right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:41:26):
You try to butter me up a r like. Oh,
She's like, I gotta make sure you come on next time.
I'm like, man, I'm trying to get you to come back.

Speaker 4 (01:41:33):
No, in all honesty, Nick, the more you play, the
better at it you get. And I'm right about that,
a rod, aren't. I I mean right, Edwards wins on
a regular basis. Now it's a regular basis it is.
I'm just telling you, the more you do it, it's
like anything, you'll have her in speed walking, not even closed.
So it's fine, gosh, until I can get this stupid
knee fixed all the way things happened. No, I'm trying

(01:41:57):
to I don't know. I just I don't want to
have surgery, but might be the only option. So we'll
see what is coming up on KAO Sports. Does anyone
know anyone?

Speaker 9 (01:42:05):
Anyone?

Speaker 7 (01:42:05):
Yeah, I'm in the studio.

Speaker 4 (01:42:07):
With Ryan Edwards.

Speaker 3 (01:42:08):
We're going to talk about the exciting Nuggets game last
night to throw them the Oklahoma City Thunder who were
undefeated heading into the Nuggets game, last night.

Speaker 4 (01:42:21):
So yeah, you see Ronny Bronnie's out of the league
now for a while, well we.

Speaker 7 (01:42:25):
Knew that was gonna happen. You're gonna go down to
the G League.

Speaker 3 (01:42:27):
But his dad is lebron James, so they're promote him
at some point during the season.

Speaker 4 (01:42:32):
You think you think he'll be okay, He's gonna do
all right? Yeah, all right, Well, Kaway Sports is coming
up next. We'll be back for a big Friday show tomorrow.
In the meantime, Keith it right here on KOA