11-13-24 FULL SHOW - Near Death Experiences Today, Plus Weather Wednesday

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show.
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am so excited about one of my guests, So why
don't I just jump in and tell you what's coming.

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so myself. I'm just throwing this out here. If you're
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four blog Near Death Experiences Today plus Weather Wednesday.

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Click on that and here are the headlines you will
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I think it's in office Health of American all with
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Press plant.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Today on the blog, I am fascinated by near death experiences.
Trump's cabinet is shaping up. What's the stupidest thing you've
seen that the left bears Trump will do? Why is
Denver government trying to build affordable housing? Doug coo US
tax dollars to fight unionization. The Colorado GOP should look south.
Why is the FBI investigating racist text messages?

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Please watch out for prong horns.

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Younger people need to know the stroke signs. The story
of the Tenth Mountain Division a hate crime hoax leads
to indictments.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
It's time for us to get our own uranium.

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All those times Scott Jennings drops since at CNN, our
Americans or the government too stupid? Here how apps and
websites track you? Nate Silver finds democrats less tolerant than Republicans.
Scrolling scrolling the UK realizes green energy is a fantasy.
The two Colorado golf courses are.

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In the top one hundred. The Biden admin makes a rule.

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The Trump admin will trash a column for trumpeters everywhere.
It's time to let it go. Comfort food from around
the state. This is one way to get snow off
your roof. Annoying things at work Part eight, five hundred
and sixty eight. Those are the headlines on the blog
at mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 8 (02:40):
So check them out.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
They're really, really good. I have never if you've had
to clear snow.

Speaker 6 (02:47):
Off a roof before. Hey, ready, you ever had to
do that?

Speaker 9 (02:49):
Well, if it includes my car, thanks to your snow jove,
But other than that, unless that's what you mean.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
No, So, yesterday I'm driving and there's a guy in
front of me and he's got to pick him up
truck and I pick him up truck. That's what my
dad used to call them. Pick them up truck, pick
them up trucks. Yeah, okay, calling it pick them up there.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
That's okay.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
He had one of those you know those platforms that
you that has a tent in it, that you have
a pop up tent that's on the top of the
back of your truck if you know what I'm talking about. Yes, okay,
So the platform on the back of his truck had
I kid you not three feet of snow packed on it,
and I was like, you know what, I'm not going
to be behind this a hole when all that snow

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flies off and smashes into my brand new windshield. So
I just I hanged back, hung back, I hung back,
hung back, and.

Speaker 8 (03:40):
Let him do his thing.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
But y'all, come on, I mean, you got three feet
of snow on top of your truck, get it off.

Speaker 8 (03:47):
You know, everyone side a Mandy Connell to give them
a snow Joe as a gift. Okay, you know what,
and h everyone should go out.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
It wasn't expensive. It was like twenty dollars, you know.

Speaker 8 (03:57):
Great purchase for me. I appreciate you. I'm always here
every storm. It's so easy to use.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
The snow Joe makes it easy to get all of
the snow outurrent We're open. Yeah, we're here for you,
snow Joe.

Speaker 8 (04:09):
We're ready.

Speaker 6 (04:10):
We are so ready.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Coming up at twelve thirty, we're going to talk to
Dave Frasier, Fox thirty one's chief meteorologist.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
We're gonna have weather Wednesday.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
I already have a question that I got yesterday via
email that I think is so good, but I'm.

Speaker 6 (04:22):
Not sure that he's going to have the answer for it.
But it's true.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
You notice, like when the snow comes down and you're like,
this storm, how many how often did you clear your driveway?

Speaker 8 (04:32):
Did you just do it the one time during which
which storm? Last storm?

Speaker 7 (04:37):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (04:37):
I never had to. I just thought one last bit
because it melted so fast.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Yeah, so we we didn't have that, So Chuck, I
think actually cleaned the snow three times during the storm
because otherwise it just gets too deep. Because the way
our driveway isn't it gets snow dressed and it's awful.
So uh, the question was this, why does snow? You
have a pile of snow and it's fluffy because it

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just fell and you go to shovel it. It might
be heavy and damp, but it's not like unbearable. But
yet you wait till the next day. What it compacts
a little bit and that same snow feels like it
weighs seven thousand pounds?

Speaker 8 (05:15):
Why is that? Why is that?

Speaker 6 (05:19):
I don't know?

Speaker 10 (05:21):
I do not know.

Speaker 8 (05:22):
So that's the question for Dave.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
We're going to have him on at twelve thirty and
then super excited about our one o'clock guest. Jeffrey Long
is a medical doctor. He was a specialist in radiation oncology,
so he has been helping people fight cancer. But he
developed an interest in near death experiences and he founded

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an organization called the Near Death Experience Research Foundation. And
if you've listened to the show for any length of time,
you know that I am fascinated by near death experiences.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
And I was really thinking about this this morning. What
is the deal, Mandy?

Speaker 11 (06:01):
Why?

Speaker 8 (06:02):
Why is this.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Something that that I spent If you knew how much
time I spent reading near death experiences, you know, learning
about near death experiences, you would think it.

Speaker 6 (06:12):
Was borderline absurd.

Speaker 9 (06:13):
Really when you stop watching Final Destination, Well I don't
watch that movie.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
But what I realized this morning I said, Okay, what's
the deal, Mandy? Why are you so fascinated by this?
And the answer is, to me, near death experiences are
the closest.

Speaker 6 (06:28):
Thing we have to proof of God.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
And I think that's why it's so appealing to me,
because you know, I understand why highly rational people, you know,
often mock the concept of faith and belief in God
because you can't prove it, right, How do you prove God?
I got an email one time that from this guy
not too long ago, as a matter of fact that said,
you know what you talk about God, why don't you

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just have God show up and explain.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
Himself to me. I'm like, that's not how it works.
It's just not so for me.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
Near death experiences feel like the closest thing we have
to proof of God, and the similarities between many, many,
many near death experiences are significant, really significant.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
It's not a no big deal situation.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
So we are trying I guess, Oh my gosh, Arod,
I just close everything by ac I know, I know,
and I can continue, I can continue talking while I'm
fixing my entire system here that I just shut down
like a moron.

Speaker 8 (07:37):
So we're having Jeffrey long on.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
He's been examining this. And I always think it's interesting
when a medical doctor decides that near death experiences are
worthy of investigation, right because medical doctors tend to poo
poo such things as the result of certain hormones or
endorphins that happen in your brain while you're dying. And

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it's like when a medical doctor says, wait, maybe this
is real and gives it more validity than it had before.
I think that's very interesting. And I've interviewed several doctors,
one who had his own near death experience. That was
Evan Brown. He is a neuroscientist who was very much
a skeptic when it came to this until he had

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his own near death experience, and now he's very much
a believer. So it's one of those things that I
hope you guys don't mind me indulging myself in this respect,
because it is kind of an indulgence to be able
to use this program to talk to people about things
that I find super interesting. But I also think it's important, right,

(08:43):
I mean, it's an important.

Speaker 8 (08:45):
Thing to to.

Speaker 6 (08:50):
Test the limits I guess of faith.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
I can't think of the best way to say this,
And if you have a better way of explaining this,
just let me know. You can text us at five
sixty six nine.

Speaker 11 (09:02):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
That's five sixty six nine oh. Steve sends this on
the Common Spirit Health text line. Mandy, if I've told
you once, I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate.

Speaker 8 (09:10):
Thank you, appreciate you. I appreciate you.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
In the meantime, though, I've got a lot of.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
Stuff that I want to talk about, but I've got
to start with some Trump stuff, not necessarily Trump stuff.

Speaker 6 (09:21):
But I talked about this a little bit yesterday about watching.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
The left turn away from their families and desert their
families over the election, and man, I wish that was
the dumbest thing that I saw about this election. But
it's not The Route, which is a magazine geared towards
black people. It is very much a black magazine. They

(09:50):
actually have an article I want to read the headline
to you, and it says and there's no like haha
or laughing emoji.

Speaker 10 (09:59):
So this this is.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
What they are actually positing at the root dot com.
Here's the headline. People are asking can slavery come back
under Trump? One popular expert's answer.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Will blow your mind. Doctor David John's weighs in.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
On how slavery would even be possible one hundred and
sixty years after a constitutional amendment.

Speaker 6 (10:22):
Now, I I don't want to drop my IQ by
reading this article.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
I link to it, but if you want to read
it yourself, you can, But I am not going to
read it because it is literally the dumbest, most idiotic,
stupidest thing I have ever seen.

Speaker 8 (10:43):
But wait, there's more.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
But wait, there's more.

Speaker 8 (10:48):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
I mean the nonsense and idiocy that we are currently
seeing coming from people on the left. And I'm trying
to be compassionate, you guys, trying to be compassionate here,
trying to you know, understand that people have been sold
this lie, a lie that black people are going to

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end up slaves again, a lie that women are not
going to be able to get credit cards anymore. That
is something I saw on this on social media, and
not from someone on the right making fun. It was
from a very upset young woman who's crying on the internet,
of course, and it's.

Speaker 8 (11:25):
Like, what are you doing? What are you doing?

Speaker 6 (11:31):
Just this morning, says this texter.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
My daughter sent me clips of articles, one stating that
Trump is going to reinstall slavery, and the second one
is that we are going to repeal the Nineteenth Amendment
and take away women's right to vote. Okay, this is
exactly the kind of dumb assery that I'm talking about.
And to the textory keeps sending us about the snow Joe.

Speaker 8 (11:51):
Yes, that is it.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
That is the snow Joe. If you want to buy
yourself one. So I'm asking you guys to text us
five six six nine, oh and just tell me the
stupidest thing that you have seen coming from people on
the left who are freaking out.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Now.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
This is not to make fun of them. That truly,
I am not here to make fun of anyone. What
I'm here is to just look at them and say,
get a grip on yourself. Because I was talking to
someone this morning and for the longest time among my
friends who are on the left, and I don't have

(12:30):
any like whack a doodle left wing friends anymore because
they all unfriended me a long time ago, much to
my great joy and happiness and peace of mind. But
I have a lot of friends on the left, and
for the longest time, when they would make some snotty comment,
I just I didn't engage. I don't want to engage
with it. But I'm at the point now where I'm
just gonna say, why won't you stop. You're clearly not

(12:51):
in the majority in this opinion. Why won't you stop?
And I think that's a valid question to ask, why
won't you stop? Because this stuff that we're seeing now
is the dumbest stuff I have ever seen. I mean, Mandy,

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my sister believes she and her wife will be sent
to concentration camps. Now, let's just start with that when
that is a fantastic example. And I appreciate that partly
because some of my favorite people in the entire world
are gay, and many of them are married. Many of
them have been in their relationships for like thirty years.
As soon as they could get married, they did. And
guess what happened to my marriage when they got married.

(13:34):
Absolutely nothing. Now, the police that I've said, the polling
that I have seen on gay marriage shows that even
Republicans now accept gay marriage. They because you know what,
none of the stuff that they said what's going to
happen has happened yet. And I am of the mindset
I believe that families are incredibly important for the foundation

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of society, and if we can encourage people to stay
in long term love relationships by getting married, that I'm
all for it, absolutely all for it. But there's been
absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing from the Trump campaign ever about
gay marriage, never ever, ever, It was never a part

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of his life in the first term. He didn't campaign
on anything about gay people or gay marriage.

Speaker 8 (14:26):
And here's the thing.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
If gay people are afraid right now, that's hubris. We've
moved on the only issue that is being discussed that
concerns the trends or the gay community, including LGBTQ, is
that we have got to stop medicalizing children and making
decisions for them that are permanent that cannot be undone

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before they are old enough to understand the consequences of
those choices. That must stop. But you know what will
actually happen when we stop doing that to children. We're
actually gonna have more grown up gay folks.

Speaker 6 (15:02):
Because right now kids.

Speaker 5 (15:04):
That would normally just be gay when they grew up
are being told they're the wrong gender and they just
need to change gender and all will be well. So
we're actually protecting gay people. That's what's going to happen
in the Trump administration. So anything that they have heard
that says Donald Trump cares about gay marriage.

Speaker 8 (15:25):
That's the thing.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
I don't even think he cares. They've had gay weddings
and Marlago. He doesn't care. This is such a nonsensical issue.
The problem is is that we have had social issues
thrust upon us at the front of everything for so
long that people in those categories think that everyone in
the world cares about them as their number one issue,

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when in reality they're not even cracking the top twenty
for most of us.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
Right, it's just absolutely nuts, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
Craziest thing I've seen post election Tim Walls adding vice
president to his resume.

Speaker 6 (16:02):
Okay, that's funny, that's really funny.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
I'm having a Facebook battle, says this Texter with folks
who believe illegal immigration is fine because they say it's
great for our economy, and it's not fine.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
It depresses wages.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
Ask anyone in construction that's been in construction for twenty
or thirty years how their wages are because of illegal immigration.
When you could pay an illegal immigrant under the table
with no taxes and no nothing, and why are you
going to pay people that have to have all of
those things.

Speaker 6 (16:33):
To do that legally? It's just not it's it's not okay, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
An older family member who babysits my eight and ten
year old kids frequently kept telling my kids that if
Trump were elected, they wouldn't get to read books they
want to read. What in the world I got to
tell you, if that was the case, I would find
a new babysitter because that person is with your children
for how many hours? I I would not I would

(17:01):
find a new babysitter. And if they ask you why,
I say, I don't like you telling children, my children
things that aren't true, lying to them. Mandy, my sister
believes that Trump will never leave office in four years.
He'll be there until he dies. Let me just say
this about that. If Donald Trump tries to do anything
to remain in office after this term, as the constitution allows,

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you are only allowed to serve two terms as president period.
It doesn't say anything about subsequent or you know, in order.
So if he tries to stay, if he tries to
do anything to remain in power, I will meet your
sister at the White House with my pitchfork and my
torch because I'm not interested in a dictator. But I

(17:47):
don't think it's gonna happen. Hey, Mandy, it's Anton. I
have a friend that's worried that Trump is gonna ban porn. Why,
because he's so mortally upstanding.

Speaker 8 (17:56):
Child.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
Please, we'll be back with whether Wednesday. I had to
cut and paste all these so we can get to
them later because some of them are beyond absurd. We
will be back right after this. Keep it on Koa
Dave Frasier, Dave, So, yeah, we got some snow last week.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Hn.

Speaker 10 (18:14):
Yeah, do you guys enjoy that?

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Well?

Speaker 8 (18:17):
I actually I was.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
Actually in Las Vegas visiting my mom, so I missed
the bulk of it. But this I read yesterday. I
had this on the blog yesterday. We've blown through our
snow totals for November. So that's a good, good thing.

Speaker 10 (18:32):
Yep, yeah, no, it was a good thing. I too
was out of town and kind of missed out a
little bit, although it was in contact with the team. Yeah,
so we picked up. It was five straight days of
measurable snow. The most was on the Friday at nine
point three inches of heavy wet snow. That set a
record for Friday. And then that put us at twenty

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inches for the month. A normal month of November seven
point four inches over the whole month. So we're at
twenty inches. We don't need an snowflake for the rest
of the month. And that's the tenth snowiest November on record,
so that's pretty good. Here's the other good thing, Mandy,
the liquid equivalent. That was a heavy wet snow. It's
one point eight inches of moisture. That's the eighth wettest

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November and it got us back on track towards the year.
We were lagging behind coming out of the dry summer
and fall, and now we're actually a little ahead, way
ahead for November and just about a tenth of an
inch ahead for the year. Good news drought monitor comes
out tomorrow, hoping Southeast Colorado rottols should see some improvement
the front range.

Speaker 8 (19:35):
The farther of the north you go not as much.

Speaker 10 (19:37):
The snow was better from the city to the south.

Speaker 6 (19:38):
And east, so and the plains got a bunch of
rain even yesterday.

Speaker 8 (19:42):
Did I see that.

Speaker 10 (19:43):
Yes, Yeah, with that little storm system that kicked off,
they got more moisture. So that was an area that
had a little bit of drought. The worst route in
the state is actually in Boulder and Larimer County, to
the north and west of downtown Denver. That's the hardest
hid area. Those areas didn't do as well. They got
some moisture, but the east and southeastern plains. I drove
back on Sunday from Arizona and came up through northern

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New Mexico. They got hit hard. Roads were closed. As
most people know. I twenty five was closed all the
way through Saturday night from northern New Mexico up to
Pueblo and Colorado. There's a lot of deep snow down
there in the southeast corner of the state.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yeah good, I mean that's good. We're off to a
good start for winter. Do we have any more snow
in the immediate future? What should we be looking at?
Do we need to worry about another storm before Thanksgiving
or around Thanksgiving?

Speaker 11 (20:29):
No?

Speaker 10 (20:30):
The only thing I can't see out with any detail
to Thanksgiving yet I am getting questions from people about that.
We're talking fifteen days out, so we've got to wait
a little bit. The pattern at the beginning of the
month was that November would be warmer and drier than normal.
I've told you time and time again. When we look
at those long lane forecasts, it tells you nothing about
the day to day.

Speaker 8 (20:49):
It clearly didn't.

Speaker 10 (20:50):
Account for the five days of snow we got, and
now the outlook for the range of lunth is slightly
cooler and a little wetter. The only day I have
the chance for snow I'm sitting at work right now
putting the forecast together is Tuesday. It's a very low
chance it's another southern storm. I think southeast Colorado will
do better than Denver. In the front range. We might
get some snow showers and a little grassy accumulation, but

(21:12):
that's it. Beyond that, the next ten days look dry,
all right.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
I got a question from a listener. Michelle said, this, Okay,
riddle me this. A square foot patch of snow is
easy to shovel when it's fresh and fluffy. As that
same amount of snow melts in the same square foot,
it gets so much heavier.

Speaker 10 (21:30):
Why So, here's the thing. So snow has weight. Obviously,
a normal what we would call fluffy snow, generally a
square foot as Michelle was talking about, is about four
pounds when you lift the shovel. We all know that
you feel it in your legs, your arms, your back
as you're lifting it. A wet snow, which is what

(21:54):
we saw with this last storm, that weight can get
up as much as ten to thirteen pounds per square
pull when yeah, it can, and you know you think
about the weight of that on your roof. Most roofs,
thankfully we have pitched roofs, but most roofs can only
handle twenty pounds of weight for square foot. So those

(22:14):
are heavy wet storms. That's where you know, you see
sometimes these flat roofs guys moving snow off. But here's
the thing. That snow we had last week was a
heavy wet snow, and so while it fell and it
was light initially, if you let it go overnight, the
ground temperature, the paven temperature is going to melt that
bottom layer. And so instead of shoveling it in a light,

(22:35):
fluffy manner and you wait till the next day, you've
compacted it and you're lifting all of the water component
of the snow in the whole square foot, so it
can't you know, you're better off attacking it. I heard
you talk about chuck going out three times. When we
have snow in the forecast of six or seven or
ten inches, it's better to chip away at it, especially
if it's going to be a heavy wet snow, and

(22:57):
this was a very heavy wet snow. As a matter
of fact, the temperatures during the whole event we're around
thirty one to thirty five, so it wasn't a terribly
cold storm. But as we always talk about our altitude,
our mountains, our foothills are very efficient with the right
wind direction at cranking out snow. Despite the temperatures being
at or above freezing.

Speaker 5 (23:16):
All right, I got another one for you from the
text line, Mandy, please ask my weather guru if it's
better to get that twenty inches of snow at one time,
or if it's better to have it spread out over
a month.

Speaker 10 (23:29):
I mean, I would rather see it. Well, there's a
good way, in a bad way. Listen. I'll take it
every way we can get it. It's all good moisture.
I would rather see it come in small increments to
kind of spread it out. I think it works a
little better. You can melt a little here and there,
you can get some to soak in, as long as
the ground hasn't gone rock hard. So i'd rather see
that in this type of an event. If you go

(23:51):
outside right now and you've got deep snow, you're probably
listening to most of it running down your gutters, and
you can see it running down the streets. So i'd
rather see it. The other reason that i'd rather see
that it has it's easier to manage from a clearing
standpoint and from road conditions. So love battling twenty inches
at once. Right, Let's take it in three eight inch
storms or something like that, where we can manage it

(24:12):
a little better.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
Yeah, but then you've got to deal with three eight
inch storms instead of one twenty inch storm.

Speaker 8 (24:17):
Right, So from a personal.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Perspective, it's like, because like, is it better Is it
better for our drought index or is it better for you?

Speaker 8 (24:26):
That's what we're asking.

Speaker 6 (24:27):
I think really does have two very different answers.

Speaker 10 (24:30):
Yeah, I think you're right. I think it's your perspective.
Get it out of the way, you know, pull the
band aid off all at once, or sprinkle it out
over time. Either way, I'll take the moisture.

Speaker 8 (24:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
One more question, This one's a very interesting one. Years ago,
Senator John Thune proposed consolidating the one hundred and twenty
two local National Weather Service offices into six regional centers.
Not asking about the political ramifications, but what operational impact would.

Speaker 8 (24:58):
This have in your view?

Speaker 10 (25:03):
You know, that's a tough question for me to answer,
you know, off the hip here, I am so used
to the regional offices, and I don't know what our
local offices. Excuse me, I don't know what a regional
office would look like. The reason I like the local
offices is the people in the local offices are like you,
and me. They live here and they get to learn

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the topography and the nature, and they get to see
the growth city and understand it. I don't know that
somebody in the different part of the country will have
that understanding. Plus, we in the broadcast community have a
great working partnership with the folks at the National Weather Service,
So as they're preparing to put out a forecast and
talk about the products and the alerts that they're going

(25:46):
to issue, whether it's a winter weather advisory or maybe
a winter storm warning because the snow is going to
be deeper and have a bigger impact, they're in communication
with us so that we can then be the voice
and the mouthpiece to get it to the public and
that we're all on the same page. And so that relationship,
to me is very very valuable when it comes to
messaging on the storm and what kind of impacts the viewers,

(26:08):
the listeners, your listeners, our viewers should be prepared for.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
All right, that is a great answer off the hip.
So I'm looking really quickly because more questions have come up. No,
people are definitely saying I'd rather have it all at
once because they only want to deal with snow one
more time.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
So there you go, Dave Frasier, you can see.

Speaker 8 (26:28):
Yeah, go ahead, I would.

Speaker 10 (26:30):
Say those people who say that that's fantastic, but just
remember March and April, when you're out there and there's
four feet of snow in one storm, you might change
your mind.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yeah, there you go, There you go, Dave Frasier. Joy
as always.

Speaker 5 (26:42):
We'll check in next week and find out what maybe
we can begin to see for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Speaker 10 (26:48):
Enjoy the rest of the nice sunny days through the weekend.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
Gorgeous. I'll take this all day long. Matt Is Dave
Fraser from Fox thirty one. We're going to take a
quick time out and I have a bunch of responses
about the dumbest thing that you've seen people say about
what Trump is going to do.

Speaker 8 (27:03):
And you've got to hear some of these.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
We will do these next keep it on, Kowa if
people could send me examples of the stupidest things that
they've heard people on the left say about the Trump
administration coming in right now, and boy have you delivered,
Boy have you delivered?

Speaker 6 (27:26):
Mandy am I over the top.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Emotionally unstable friends are posting pictures of a handsmade tale
as their profile.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
As you said, get a grip.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
Mandy Quentin Young, the esteemed left wing editor of Colorado
News Line, is crying autocracy on Trump and recess appointments.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
How many people read Colorado news Line?

Speaker 7 (27:45):
Not me?

Speaker 6 (27:46):
Oh wow, this is good.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
Tulca Gabbert is now being called a Russian spy by
the left on X. Yes, that Trump is going to
deport naturalized US citizens. That's not how it works. That
is not how it works at all. But let me
read some of these, because some of these are absolutely nuts,
just crazy. Mandy, I had a female team member call

(28:11):
me and ask if she needed to start looking for
a job because women are.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
No longer able to own a business.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
I mean, what, you guys, that's comically bad, comically stupid,
And yet I'm sure they did not believe it to
be comically anything.

Speaker 8 (28:28):
Right.

Speaker 6 (28:31):
What just happened here? I don't know what just happened.
I just made it so I.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
Can't read these now on my here we go.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
The mother of a couple of girls that were hang
on one second, guys, let me. I tried to format
this differently and it just made everything worse. The mother
of a couple of girls that were in girl Scouts
with My daughter years ago posted on Facebook that she
and her family will no longer be served in restaurants anymore.

(28:59):
They are a black family. That's criminal that someone believes this, Mandy.
I've actually noticed gay people like Jillian Michaels are more
conservative these days.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
And are I.

Speaker 5 (29:15):
I've now destroyed my formatting in this and I have
to fix it. You guys, so ay rod vamp for
a second, do some vamping?

Speaker 8 (29:22):
Can you yam? Okay?

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Oh jesus, this is a terrible time for a call,
just letting you know, so.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
I can't format it. My daughter thinks Trump will not leave.
He's going to be a dictator for life. Mandy. My
crazy lip friend is convinced there's going to be a
civil war. I asked her why she felt that way,
and she said, because Trump is going to be president.

Speaker 8 (29:44):
Have you watched the movie Civil War? Yet? We just did?

Speaker 1 (29:47):
I have not?

Speaker 6 (29:48):
Did you did you watch it?

Speaker 8 (29:49):
I did? It was actually pretty good, not great, not.

Speaker 9 (29:52):
Great, solid seven out of ten, but it was It
was good. You could definitely definitely see the connections, but
they were subtle enough to where it didn't really bug
you know, right, But.

Speaker 8 (30:04):
It was good. It was good.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
So I've heard they've done a nice job with that
film in not making it political in the sense that
one side or the other is the superstar.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 8 (30:16):
Yeah, it's it's just those panicking. Probably don't watch it. Yeah,
probably not for you, Maybe not, you'll freak out.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
Mandy sent a jump named by family.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
My sister in law got angry and told me never
to talk politics, and she will see to it to
cut my family off from me. But still talk to
an older sibling who would get oh, oh geez, A
lot of these things are are are?

Speaker 8 (30:38):
I can't dang it. What is happening with you right now?

Speaker 6 (30:42):
I cut and paste. Did you know how the text
line comes up?

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Right?

Speaker 7 (30:45):
I do?

Speaker 8 (30:45):
And I told you hadn't paste it.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
I tried to move one of the bars over so
I could read more clearly what was in the textbox,
and it shrunk everything in the textbox.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
And I can't figure out how to get it.

Speaker 8 (30:56):
You know, technology, Mandy, when you get to be a
certain age, it just can't be.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
I'd love to sit here and argue with you, but
I'm okay with that. I will say someday you think
it will, it will.

Speaker 9 (31:06):
It's funny though A transition used to get really mad
when I would say things like that and you're you
start to expse.

Speaker 8 (31:12):
I don't like that.

Speaker 6 (31:13):
Yeah, I'm wiser now you need to I don't have
to get upset.

Speaker 8 (31:16):
No, I'm back.

Speaker 6 (31:19):
No, I'm not going to do it because I know
that will make you happy and give you joy.

Speaker 7 (31:22):
No.

Speaker 9 (31:23):
No, I'm actually more upset and disappointed that you've accepted
your fate.

Speaker 8 (31:27):
I don't like that.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
I've accepted it because it happens to everyone. And I'm
okay and I've realized I still can't even but not
for you.

Speaker 8 (31:33):
Most you have to fight back.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
No, not going to do it, my wife says. This
Texter is now visiting family in Seattle. Prior to her departure,
her sister said there's no way they're going to visit
together due to the way why my wife voted. Her
sister's a radical lesbian, totally supports the trans stuff and
supports anti Israel protest. Sister is honestly afraid that she
and her wife are going to be rounded up in
concentration camps. Really, my wife is enjoying her visit with

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her mom, and anyway.

Speaker 9 (32:00):
Seattle is a bubble of beauty. Let's not add any
politics to the beautiful city that is Seattle.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
Well, Seattle is steeped in politics. I am not bad
news for you. Yeah, I would love to leave Seattle
out of it. That they refuse to be left out
of it. O MG, says this texter. This is stupidity.
When your daughter has a miscarriage and developed sepsis because
she can't get the care she needs, don't worry. The
gas will be cheaper to get to our funeral. Let's

(32:25):
be clear about this, you guys. Even in states that
have limited abortion, every single one of them has an
exception for the life of the mother, every single one
of them.

Speaker 8 (32:41):
So that notion is absurd.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
And doctors are now getting the message because I do
believe that women died because doctors did not know what
to do under the law. Well, now it's being clarified.
Look at the Cora website. This texter says. The nutty
leftists are becoming even more rabid and entrenched in their
hateful vision of Trump and the right.

Speaker 6 (33:02):
It's very scary what they believe.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
And this question, how about our idiot governor putting together
a coalition of governors to protect our democracy from Trump.
You guys, if you have any doubt left in your
mind that Jared Polis is running for president, please don't
because he's starting groups like this so he can stay

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in the public eye, keep his name id up, run
around talking about freedom, even though he hates freedom unless
it's the freedom to kill a baby up until the
moment of birth. He is running for president. It's happening
in front of our eyes.

Speaker 8 (33:40):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
Mandy, a mom posted her fourteen year old asked for
a hysterectomy.

Speaker 6 (33:48):
I blame the parents.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
I do too.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
My liberal college senior daughter cut her hair extremely short
since she won't have control.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
Over her body.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
I clearly failed as a listening from Durango, No, the
problem is is that you do a great job, and
then we send our kids to college where they have
their heads full of idiocy by professors that we told
them to respect because they're teachers and we're supposed to
respect our teachers.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
Right, that's what that's what's going to have.

Speaker 5 (34:20):
What's bad with social media is you say something on it,
people believe it's the truth and don't fact check correct
absolutely right. Had an Uber driver this weekend ask if
we were ready for the Project twenty twenty five where
Trump will be a dictator by destroying the economy. She
was listening to joyread she needs to get out of
her bubble because none of this crap is going to happen.

(34:43):
Oh this is my favorite though, Oh this is my
favorite right now. Mandy, my neighbor thinks Elon Musk will
turn off his Internet switch because he's met with Putin
three or four times. She owns Tesla and spent a
ten of money to get a fast charging outlet or
garage and just sixty thousand dollars solar panel Tesla roof
hire Tesla roof yep. Okay, there you go, There you

(35:05):
go anyway, Ralph, it has nothing to do with what
I'm using to read the text messages. It's the system
that we have to use.

Speaker 6 (35:13):
On the backside.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
We'll be right back. We've got a near death experience
expert coming up, doctor Jeffrey Long next.

Speaker 6 (35:19):
Keep it here on KOA.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
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Speaker 5 (35:47):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
And I got a text message in the last hour
as I was talking about my long time and ongoing
fascination with near death experiences, and a texter said, Mandy,
it's just one of your ex centricities and I've come
to enjoy it. And I'm thrilled about that because I
am stoked about my next guest. My next guest is
doctor Jeffrey Long. He is a medical doctor. He has

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been practicing radiation oncology, helping people with cancer get over
their cancer. And as a scientist, he founded the National
the Near Death Experience Research Foundation back in nineteen ninety
eight and he has hundreds and I mean hundreds of
near death experience stories on the website. And he's written

(36:30):
two books, Evidence of the Afterlife, The Science of Near
Death Experiences and God and the Afterlife, The Groundbreaking New
Evidence for God and Near death Experience.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
And now he joins me, doctor.

Speaker 8 (36:42):
Long, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (36:44):
Hey, Mandy, this is great. We've got a lot to
talk about.

Speaker 5 (36:46):
Well, I want to start by asking you what started
your fascination with near death experiences.

Speaker 11 (36:55):
Sure, over twenty five years ago, I was in the
medical library looking up a cancer I'm a radiation oncology doctor.
I used radiation to treat cancer. But looking for that article,
I found a medical article that had the term near
death experience in it, and I was fascinated on reading that.
I mean, how can you not wonder what happens after
you die? But immediately I realized there was significant evidence

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that all of us, our consciousness survives our bodily death
and we go on. And this was the strongest evidence
I read. I was hooked immediately and vowed I was
going to carry forward research on that when I had
the chance, and ultimately I did.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
Well, you're a medical doctor, so you are supposed to
be grounded in facts and reason and rationality. How is
your we'll call it a side hustle, for lack of
a better way to put it.

Speaker 8 (37:44):
How is that?

Speaker 5 (37:44):
Do you talk to other doctors about that? And do
you do they think you're insane?

Speaker 11 (37:50):
Actually, in modern times, I've been doing this twenty five years, Mandy,
But in modern times there's far more acceptance of near
death experience among doctors, nurses of the medical staff. In fact,
a twenty twenty one survey found that about seventy two
percent of American adults believe that near death experience is
an observation of the spirit departing the physical body. So

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the significant majority of people today actually understand and accept
the reality of near death experiences. It sure was not
that when I started out twenty five years ago. There's
a lot less belief in the reality of near death experience.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
What do the naysayers say about near death experiences? I mean,
I've heard some things like it's just in doorphins being
released in your brain as you're going through the dying process.
What are some of the other medical reasons that have
been thrown out there?

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Do you know?

Speaker 7 (38:42):
Oh gosh, I've been studying that for years. I mean,
you name it.

Speaker 11 (38:45):
I've heard these skeptical so called explanations of near death experience.
I'm heard, like you say, in dorphins, brain electrical activity,
chemical activity, pre existing beliefs, cultural training, and all that
other stuff. The reality is there's been over thirty different
so called skeptical explanations of near death experiences over the years,

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and the reason there's so many is there's no one
or several explanations for the physiologic, cultural, or any kind
of cause of near death experience in the brain. There's
no explanation that makes sense even to the skeptics as
a group.

Speaker 7 (39:20):
I mean, think about it.

Speaker 11 (39:21):
That's why there's over thirty different of these, often even
contradictory explanations. Answer is, no skeptical explanation can explain anything
that we actually observe consistently in near death experiences.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
Was there one particular case that put you into the
camp of a true believer that you remember?

Speaker 7 (39:40):
Oh, heck, yes there was. Vicky.

Speaker 11 (39:44):
She was born totally blind to her visions unknown and unknowable.
You cannot explain vision to someone born totally blind in
terms of the remaining four physical senses. Vicky was a
talented singer. She was singing at a bar and unfortunately,
in aneb created patron was driving her home and boom,
she had a bad car wreck. First time Vicky had

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visioned was during her near death experience. Consciousness above her body,
she saw it down below in the gourney. Her initial
emotional reaction was to be horrified because vision was so
unknown and familiar, and it was only after she correlated
the feel of her long hair and interestingly, a ring
that her father had given her that all her life
she only knew by.

Speaker 7 (40:26):
The sense of touch. Now she could see it and
knew that was her down below. Vicky went on to have.

Speaker 11 (40:31):
A very detailed near death experience, a visit to unearthly
often called heavenly afterlife realms, with stunning, very detailed vision.
In fact, Vicky's vision is what we call three hundred
and sixty degrees. She could, as many of her near
death experiences described, remarkably, she could simultaneously be aware of

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and process visual awareness in front of her, behind her right, left,
up down, technically spherical vision. And since that was her
only life experience with vision, I told her all the
rest of us have so called pie shape vision because
of where our eyes are in our heads. Vicky literally
laughed at me and said that can't be, because her

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only life experience with vision was that remarkable three hundred
and sixty degree vision.

Speaker 5 (41:18):
What percentage of people who die and then are brought
back actually have a near death experience?

Speaker 11 (41:25):
Yeah, only about ten to twenty percent of people that
come close to death have a near death experience, so
eighty or ninety percent don't. I co authored a scholarly
book chapter on that very topic, and we studied literally
decades of prior research, and we really couldn't find any
demographic variable that would predict who would or would not
have a near death experience when they nearly die, work

(41:47):
what the content would be. So it's one of the
great mysteries above near death experience.

Speaker 5 (41:52):
You know, let's talk about those near death experiences. And
you mentioned earlier that there are similar themes or similar
sorts of near death experiences that kind of cross cultural lines,
because I could see where a skeptic would say, Look,
you were brought up Baptist and you were told that
there's a bright light and you're going to go see God.
So of course that's the experience that you have. But

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what are the commonalities that cross over those cultural lines?

Speaker 7 (42:19):
Right?

Speaker 11 (42:19):
I've been studying that for a long time and actually
published two papers with my colleague and Iranian near death
experience researcher with Muslim near death experiences. We've received scores
and scores of near death experiences on my website from
non Western countries. Bottom line, and I've published this several locations,
is the what occurs during a near death experience? The content,

(42:43):
the characteristics are strikingly similar wherever from the earth. They
occur even in non Western countries I mean, Mandy. The
bottom line is, it doesn't make any difference whether you say,
a Muslim in Egypt, or a Hindu in India, or
a Christian in the United States, or someone who's never
even of near death experiences, wherever you are, whatever your
prior belief system is or lack of belief, when you

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have a near death experience, the content is going to
be strikingly similar.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
What is that content and similar?

Speaker 8 (43:12):
Walk me through that.

Speaker 11 (43:14):
Sure, a typical now, no, two near death experiences are
the same, but a typical detailed near death experience would
be boom, there's that life threatening event. They're physically unconscious
or clinically dead. A typical first element is what we
call an out of body experience. Consciousness rises above the body.
From that vantage point, they can see and hear ongoing

(43:34):
earthly events, often including the frantic efforts of people trying
to bring them back to life. They then may pass
into or through a tunnel. The end of that tunnels
often described a beautiful, unearthly white light. When they pass
through that they're in that unearthly or heavenly realm. They
may have what's called a life review around this time
where they see a part or even all amazingly of

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their prior life in detail. They may encounter deceased loved ones.
These are joyous reunions, and even deceased pets may be encountered.
In this heavenly realm, as it's often called. They have landscapes,
beautiful flowers, plants. They often will say, there's beautiful colors there,
beyond anything that's even possible on earth, just beauty off

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the scale.

Speaker 7 (44:18):
Same thing with music. They may see.

Speaker 11 (44:19):
They may hear music in the background, beautiful beyond anything
possible on earth. There can be landscapes, buildings, other beings
are there to interact with them. At this time, they're
typically feeling overwhelming sense of peace and love and even connection,
like they really belong in that unearthly after realm. And interestingly,
they very often describe a strong sense of familiarity in.

Speaker 6 (44:43):
That realm, almost like coming home.

Speaker 7 (44:46):
Oh it literally that fact. Home is one of the
most common words they use. It feels like home.

Speaker 11 (44:51):
I felt like I belong there, And so we hear
that over and over from people that have near death experience.

Speaker 8 (44:56):
Are the common.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
Or common ways people come back do they choose to
come back, are they told to come back? How does
that process happen or differ among these experiences or.

Speaker 11 (45:10):
The significant majority of people having a near death experience,
they're either sent back involuntarily or the experience is done.
They're not making a decision boom, They're back in their
physical body, usually fighting for their life. Interestingly, a thrillatively
small minority of people that may be interacting with other
beings during their experience are given a choice. They're very

(45:32):
directly asked, do you want to stay here in this
beautiful realm where return to your earthly life? But here's
where it gets really interesting. At that critical moment of
decision life and death, the significant majority of people having
a near death experience don't want to leave that unearthly
heavenly round, and they'll often argue at some length with
the beings around them.

Speaker 7 (45:53):
I mean, it's just amazing to.

Speaker 11 (45:54):
Me to know that their entire prior earthly life, friends, family,
loved ones, everything that they knew for those many years,
typically decades of their life, they're willing to literally be
apart from. And that's how engrossing, how enveloping these afterlife
realms are. The intensity of the peace, love, unity with

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others around them, connection, sense of home is so profoundly
positive that that's the decision for those.

Speaker 7 (46:21):
That have a choice.

Speaker 11 (46:22):
For the great majority now, after dialogue, obviously they all choose.
Ultimately they make that decision to return. The two most
common reasons that they make if they have a decision
are to continue family affairs typically children are very common,
or other people that may need them in their earthly life,
or simply more generically, to learn lessons that your life

(46:44):
isn't done, you have more to do.

Speaker 5 (46:47):
So are there hell experiences in near death experiences or
are they all similar in the sense that they feel
heavenly or how does the concept of sin or in
that stuff play out or does.

Speaker 8 (47:01):
It at all?

Speaker 11 (47:02):
Yeah, there doesn't seem About one or two percent of
near death experiences describe hellish content.

Speaker 7 (47:08):
In about half of those that are aware of some
hellish realm and that.

Speaker 11 (47:12):
Heavenly realm, it seems to be segregated, separate from heaven.
So people say hell doesn't exist in heaven. They're right,
because that area seems to be corded off. About the
other half are actually involved in a part of that
hellish realm and it can be very frightening as you
could imagine. However, there's a silver lining to that hell

(47:33):
that they encounter. Many people that have a near death
experience will come back and say, you know, I needed that,
if you will, spiritual kick in the pants. I needed
to have a way to confront the issue significant issues
in my life, those angers, resentments, guilts, and there was
really no other way other than for me to have
this type of experience to really learn the lessons I

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needed to live my life better. So that's really the will,
the silver lining or you know, helps explain how and
why these these hellish experiences occur. The good news is
me and as the best of my knowledge, all other
major near death experience researchers do not believe that these
hell's realms described and near death experiences are to be

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considered a threat for a permanent, involuntary hell.

Speaker 7 (48:20):
And that's important.

Speaker 8 (48:21):
So how many people come back?

Speaker 5 (48:23):
Because I've done multiple interviews with a guy named Vinnie Tolman.
He had an after death experience. He was dead for
a couple hours and was in a body bag and
then was brought back to life by a paramedic. So
his story he had a very detailed near death experience,
and I was wondering he changed his life dramatically after
his near death experience, I mean, really did an overhaul

(48:45):
on his life.

Speaker 6 (48:46):
So what if what is that a common thing?

Speaker 5 (48:50):
Do people come back and say, I've gotten another chance
and I want to make sure I get back there?

Speaker 6 (48:54):
I mean, how does that play out?

Speaker 7 (48:57):
You know, that's a great question.

Speaker 11 (48:58):
I very recently publish the largest study ever done on
what we call after effects, or the typical changes and
values and beliefs after near death experiences. We ask people
to assess their values and beliefs they had at the
time of their near death experience and then when they
shared it in the average of about.

Speaker 7 (49:16):
Fifteen years later.

Speaker 11 (49:18):
And it's absolutely amazing how many changes people have and
how profound they are. Some of these typical what we
call after effects that we see in both prospective and
retrospective studies. Obviously, people become far more believers of an afterlife.

Speaker 7 (49:36):
I mean, no surprise there, now, is it. They? From
their point of view, they.

Speaker 11 (49:39):
Know what lies beyond death's veil because they lived at
they experienced it.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
They know.

Speaker 11 (49:44):
As a corollary, they have a greatly decreased fear of
death again, knowing what lies beyond, greatly reduced fear of death.
But beyond that, in living their earthly life, you see
them tremendously more compassionate on average, loving, They care more
about their relationships, They seek out loving relationships and may
depart from unloving relationships. They become far less materialistic, they

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become far more embracing they might not have otherwise. They're
simply more courageous, and the list goes on and on.
But in my study, we compared these so called after
effects to people that had a life threatening event but
did not have a near death experience, and the people
with a near death experience. I mean literally orders of

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magnitude greater changes in these after effects than the simple
life threatening event with no near death experience. So it's
really the near death experience. It seems to be transformative.

Speaker 5 (50:39):
How does faith play into this at all? Or I
guess what I'm asking is, do people who are not
do atheists have near death experiences?

Speaker 6 (50:49):
Have you encountered that?

Speaker 5 (50:50):
And if so, how does that change someone's perspective?

Speaker 7 (50:54):
Sure, that's a survey question we have.

Speaker 11 (50:57):
So we asked religious belief, including lack of religious belief,
and people can can choose atheists. So we have a
pretty good sized series of people that were atheists at
the time of their near death experience. Their content of
their near death experience once again strikingly similar to people
of any and all other religious beliefs. Wherever on the
world it might be, there doesn't seem to be. And

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that's a key thing. In near death experiences. There is
essentially never a sense of external judgment or judgment about
what you believed or didn't believe in your earthly life.
By far and away, both atheists and others are far
more impressed with that overwhelming, all enveloping sense of love.
They feel love for who they are, all that they are,
everything that they are, regardless of what they previously believed. Now,

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certainly many of these atheists encounter God during their near
death experience, and not surprisingly, essentially all of them stop
being a atheist if they have that component of their
near death experience.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
I find that fascinating because I mean, doctor Long, I'm
talking to doctor Jeffrey Long from the Near Death Experience
Research Foundation talking before we came on the air. I
believe that the reason I find this so fascinating is
it is to me feels like proof of God. And
I'm a believer, and it's not like I was looking
for some kind of concrete proof, but knowing this is

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happening for me just reaffirms what I already believe from
blind faith. If they're if you know, I guess that's
the best way to put it. But I want to
ask this question from our text line on the flip
side of life change. Do some people wish to be
back in the afterlife? Do you see anybody who has
tried to end their own life to get back to
where they they felt that those those feelings.

Speaker 7 (52:37):
Yeah, yeah, that's a great question.

Speaker 11 (52:39):
It's fairly common for people, well, not common, but it
happens to a number of people that have a near
death experience.

Speaker 7 (52:44):
There's that feeling of depression.

Speaker 11 (52:47):
They feel separated from the best environment experience that they
ever had in their life. I mean, bar none off
the scale better, and so they may have that feeling
of depression, resentment, and yearning.

Speaker 7 (52:58):
Not surprisingly.

Speaker 11 (52:59):
I mean, you know, who wouldn't want to go back
to heaven as they've experienced, and yet they learned these
importance and significance of their earthly life. That's a very
common and powerful after effect or changed after near death experience.
So interestingly, it is extremely rare for people that have
a near death experience to attempt suicide or self harm

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to reclaim that near death experience realm.

Speaker 7 (53:23):
They know that earthly life is.

Speaker 11 (53:25):
Important and even if difficult, it's literally a gift and
it's something that they need to live out. However difficult
to walk.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
Vinnie Tolman, who I just mentioned before, who's my favorite
near death experience I've ever talked about. He said he
researched the most dangerous jobs in the world just in case,
you know, just if he figured if he took a
really dangerous job, then maybe that would increase his chances
of going back sooner.

Speaker 6 (53:48):
But then he realized that was.

Speaker 5 (53:49):
Not a great strategy either, so he has now given
that up as well. This question goes back to the
question of skepticism that we were talking about earlier.

Speaker 6 (53:58):
Oh geezhs, what time it is, Doctor long, I am
out of time with you.

Speaker 5 (54:02):
I could go for days on this, so hopefully we
can have you back on for a longer period of time.
If you want more information about the Near Death Experience
Research Foundation.

Speaker 6 (54:11):
I put a link on the blog. There are tons
of stories there.

Speaker 5 (54:15):
If you've had a near death experience, I'm sure they
would love to hear from you.

Speaker 6 (54:19):
Continue this great work, doctor Long. I'm fascinated by it.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
I'm glad you're doing it, and I'm glad I found
your website because I'm going to be reading every story
on here from now on.

Speaker 7 (54:28):
Well, that's fantastic, great discussion. Mandy really appreciate this, so thanks,
thank you.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
That is doctor Jeffrey Long from the Near Death Experience
Research Foundation. We will be right back. Keep it on KOA.
Speaking of choices, Hey, Rod, nice segue. Let's talk for
a moment about some of the people that have been
nominated by President to be Donald Trump, wait, president to
be again president reelected, because you're supposed to call him

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president elect. Can we just call this president reelect?

Speaker 8 (54:57):
Wored Oh, I like that president elect squid.

Speaker 5 (55:00):
We're going with that President of X where Donald Trump
he is already starting to make appointments.

Speaker 6 (55:05):
I just want to throw this out to you, guys.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
We're already seeing significant changes from Donald Trump in the
way he is going about his administration.

Speaker 6 (55:17):
He now that he understands the gig he is in.
He's just like, Okay, I know what I gotta do.

Speaker 12 (55:23):
I know how this works, I know the right people. Boom,
here we go. Also around, this isn't hiring any wit.
Oh wait, yeah exactly. We'll get there in a second.

Speaker 8 (55:34):
So after his.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
First cabinet picks in back in twenty sixteen, we're heralded
as the most white men in a cabinet administration in
a long time. But remember back in twenty sixteen, he
appointed a bunch of non government people to positions in
the cabinet and they all flamed out spectacularly. I mean

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they all because working in government is nothing like working business,
and so they brought in their business ideas, but then
found out government is intractable and it didn't matter what
their great business ideas were, because you were.

Speaker 6 (56:09):
Going to do things the way things have always been done.

Speaker 5 (56:12):
So this time he is getting people who have already
been in the cesspool. They understand how it all works,
so they are going to be able to better execute
deregulation strategies like that rolling things back. Then people who
are coming from the outside of government. I think this
is a sign of growth for President Donald Trump. At

(56:37):
President Alex Squared, Donald Trump, we got to get that in.
That's a word that's a mouthful a rod. But remind
me President Alex Square Trump. So let's go through some
of the picks that he has made. A couple days ago,
I heard that he was going to nominate Marco Rubio
as Secretary of State.

Speaker 8 (56:52):
And I love this pick.

Speaker 5 (56:55):
I absolutely love it. I love Mark Rubio. He's done
some things. I'm gonna tell you a little Qui Marco
Rubio story. And if you're a longtime listener, you've probably
already heard this. So back when I had my show
in Florida, So this is like two thousand and nine
going into twenty ten, and I had the show before that,
but that's the timeframe that this all happened. So this

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guy named Charlie Christ, who is the worst politician in
the history of politicians ever till the end of time.
There's nobody worse than Charlie cris just in terms. And
at the time, Charlie crist was a Republican, he had
already been governor, he was running for Senate.

Speaker 6 (57:32):
I couldn't stand the guy.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
He gave me the creeps and the ick so bad,
and so I went on my show, my radio show.
They actually played a commercial for Charlie Crisper Senate on
My show, and I came out of the break and said,
I can't believe they've played that spot on the show.
I just threw it up in my mouth, and somehow
that got picked up by the national media. Now at
the same time, somebody working for the Marco Rubio campaign,

(57:55):
who was also a running for senate, called him and said,
you got to call this woman show in Florida in
Fort Myers and Naples.

Speaker 6 (58:03):
Call her show right now. She's talking about this race.

Speaker 5 (58:06):
So Marco Rubio calls my show and he's at the
airport in Miami right and he's waiting to board a flight.

Speaker 6 (58:12):
And we ended up talking for like.

Speaker 5 (58:14):
Thirty five minutes on the show that morning, and at
the end of it, I said, you're my guy. Whatever
I can do to help you get elected, because I
don't want this other clown to get elected. And that
is how I got my first experience with Marco Rubio.
He was refreshing. He had come out of the Florida
House of Representatives where he actually asked Floridians and I

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love this idea, and I wish people would do this
when they were in office.

Speaker 6 (58:38):
He did it when he was Speaker of the House
in Florida.

Speaker 5 (58:41):
He asked Floridians for one hundred ideas or more than that,
for a bunch of ideas, what we could do to
make the state of Florida better, what we.

Speaker 6 (58:49):
Could do, what had to happen.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
And then he took one hundred of those ideas and
made a book and then executed and got as many
of them done as you.

Speaker 6 (58:58):
Could, you know, he could possibly could. So I have
affection for him now.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
He got into office after he said he wasn't going
to work on legalization, and then he got involved in
the Gang of Eight immigration, and he really I was
very upset with him for a long time, long long time,
but he's done a lot of great things since, and
so I really like this pick. I think it's with
what we're dealing with right now with immigration from Central

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and South America. We have to engage in Central and
South America like we have never ever engaged in Central
and South America. In terms of diplomacy. We have to
get going in Central and South America because you know
who is going right now in Central and South America, China.
China is building allegiances to our southern border and that,

(59:46):
my friends, is.

Speaker 6 (59:47):
A very bad thing.

Speaker 5 (59:50):
So we need to get in there, not to steamroll people,
not to tell them how to live their lives, but
to say, look, we want to help you as much
as we can with infrastructure. You need to build a
thriving economy, because if there are thriving economies.

Speaker 6 (01:00:04):
South of the border, no one will want to walk
over it, you know. I mean, that's the thing.

Speaker 5 (01:00:11):
So Marco Rubio fluent Spanish Cuban, He's of Cuban descent.
He understands totalitarianism. I think he's going to be great
as Secretary of State. I would imagine he is going
to sail to confirmation because he's a known factor and
he's been at the center.

Speaker 8 (01:00:24):
For so long. So that's that's one.

Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
Now for the EPA director, Lee Zelden is a former congressman.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
He was a.

Speaker 5 (01:00:35):
I think he ran for governor in New York and
he was a Trump ally during the impeachment trial in
twenty twenty. He's also an attorney, and Trump, I'm guessing,
is going to come in and really go scorched to
earth in the EPA in terms of rolling back excessive
regulations that have been used to shut down everything that

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the left doesn't like.

Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
So I'm okay with Lee's ld United Nations Ambassador pick
a least dephonic.

Speaker 8 (01:01:04):
I love this pick.

Speaker 5 (01:01:07):
First of all, she's Jewish, and if that doesn't say
to Hamas and their little friends, yeah, we don't care
what you think.

Speaker 8 (01:01:15):
I don't know what does.

Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
Plus watching her absolutely filet verbally of course, the leadership
of Ivy League schools.

Speaker 6 (01:01:24):
Ugh just makes me feel good thinking about it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:29):
Love this pick, and I find it interesting that in
two Trump administrations he has sent women to the UN.
I think that's very interesting for egual whoates women. Well,
it's kind of a big deal there. Homeland Security pick
Christy Nome. I realize that Christine Nome is very popular
in the Republican Party, and she's pretty, and she's very conservative,

(01:01:51):
and she does a great job carrying the conservative message.
But I'm just gonna say this, and I want you
guys to understand that if you love Christina, I'm.

Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
Not mad at you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:02):
Not Wait what Matt Gates as ag just come down.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Yeah that is horrible.

Speaker 5 (01:02:10):
Yeah, that is a horrib That's a horrible pick, absolutely horrible, horrible.
You know what, maybe that's the sacrificial pick and hear
me out. Okay, In every major cabinet position appointing period,
there's always one person that we're pretty sure isn't gonna

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make it. But what happens is all of the attention
gets focused on that one person, allowing everybody else to
kind of whoop go right through. Hopefully he's the sacrificial lamb.

Speaker 8 (01:02:47):
Towards I am not a fan.

Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
See now, let me finish what I was saying about Christino.
Because she has on paper, she has all the bona
fides right, she has everything, she's doing everything right. But
I got to see her speak at the Steamboat Institute conference,
and she does not come across as a very genuine
person to me, for a lot of reasons that I

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cannot share because they were told to me in confidence.
She is she can be extremely difficult and controlling behind
the scenes. And this not from Steamboat, but from another
instance where she was a speaker at an event. There's
something about her that I'm uneasy about. I'm interested to

(01:03:36):
see how she performs at this post. I just want
you to know, got a little cautious about that. We're
going to get through the next few right after this,
keep it right here, on KOA. I have to thank
a listener who said, uh, yeah, elis Stephonic isn't Jewish?

Speaker 8 (01:03:52):
I thought she was.

Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
She's apparently Catholic. Not that there's anything wrong with either
of those things. I heard that somewhere and I didn't
check it. Check out what you think you hear, people,
because obviously I did not. We just talked about the
fact that Matt Gates, I guess, has been tapped as
Attorney General, and I'm not very happy about that at all.
This texter said, Mandy, your theory that Matt Gates is

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Trump's sacrificial lamb?

Speaker 8 (01:04:16):
Maybe right.

Speaker 6 (01:04:17):
I hope so too.

Speaker 5 (01:04:18):
Trump might have another Matt in mind for AG, and
that would be his former acting AG, Matthew Whitaker.

Speaker 8 (01:04:23):
What do you think. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:04:25):
I do think that there is the sacrificial lamb in
these appointments. I do think that's a thing.

Speaker 6 (01:04:31):
We'll see.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
I'll tell you the rest of the appointments. So far,
I've only gone through a few. Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
EPA Director Lee Zelden, United Nations Ambassador at least Dephonic,
Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome, Ambassador.

Speaker 6 (01:04:45):
To Israel, Mike Huckabee. I am a okay with this.

Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
I think Mike Kuckaby has the ability to be very diplomatic,
and he is he is going to be a staunch
Israel advocate. I think he the right choice there. CIA
director pick John Ratcliffe. He is the former head of
National Intelligence in the last Trump administration and he previously
served in Congress, and he was part of Trump's Impunchment

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impeachment team during the Democrats first effort to get Trump
out of office. Now, Defense Secretary John Ratliffe is fine
with me. They're all kind of you know, you move
them around, you move around the deck chairs. They're all
kind of the same.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
Now this one.

Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth. He is currently a co host
for Fox and Friends Weekend, but he served as an
infantry captain in the Army National Guard. He did tours
in Iraq and Afghanistan. He's earned two bronze stars. And
if you are unhappy with the way the military is

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being run and you want to.

Speaker 8 (01:05:59):
You want to.

Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
Really shake things up, then yeah, you wippoint somebody like
Pete Hegseth. But I as an outsider, I don't have
enough information about him about his ideology when it comes
to the military about you know, how he would run to.

Speaker 6 (01:06:15):
Have an opinion on this.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
This is one that I'm like, I he feels unqualified,
But I also like the notion of having someone who
has been in combat recently in that position, because I
think if you're a person who's been in combat recently,
you're probably more likely to exercise, you know, caution when

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it comes time to send people into harm's way.

Speaker 4 (01:06:40):
And I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:06:42):
I mean, if we have to send people into harm's
way and there's no other option, than absolutely I want
a Secretary of Defense that'll do that. But if we
don't have to, if there's another way out, then I
would prefer that if it could be as effective. There
you go a lot of you saying I thought I
thought Christy Noan was the sacrificial lamb. We shall see

(01:07:02):
chief of staff for the White House.

Speaker 8 (01:07:04):
You guys.

Speaker 6 (01:07:04):
I'm kind of excited.

Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
About this because Susie Wiles is the daughter of Pat Summerl,
the longtime broadcaster and football player who is also from
my hometown. Both Susie's brothers graduated from my high school.

Speaker 6 (01:07:18):
Susie did not.

Speaker 5 (01:07:18):
She had already graduated from high school in New Jersey.
But I got kind of excited about that. So she
is a political lobbyist. She is extremely politically politically savvy,
and my friends in politics in.

Speaker 6 (01:07:31):
Florida say she is ruthless.

Speaker 5 (01:07:34):
Which is exactly what a chief of staff needs to be.
Unfortunately that you need to be those things, Susie Wiles.
I'm excited to see how she does that. She is
going to become the first woman to serve as White
House chief of staff for a guy who's a misogynist.
He's really striking out on these. Deputy chief of Staff
for Policy, Stephen Miller, he was an advisor. Stephen has dabble,

(01:08:00):
And when I say dabbled, I don't mean he himself
has dabbled in white supremacy because I don't believe it.
But Steven has been too close to white supremacists for
my taste. I would like to kind of make it
a thing where if you are, you know, adjacent, how

(01:08:20):
about white supremacy adjacent? I don't want you to have
a power position in the in the in anywhere, and
until we start essentially punishing people by not giving them
plumb assignments. I think that there's a wing of the
Republican Party that will continue to dabble, and I don't
like that. Borders are Tom Homan. I love this pic,

(01:08:41):
super happy about this. He's a former Immigration and Customs
Enforcement director. And if you want to see Tom Homan
in action, go to Google and just put Tom Homan
best moments him testifying in front of Congress.

Speaker 8 (01:08:54):
Scorcher.

Speaker 6 (01:08:56):
Absolute scorcher.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
He is.

Speaker 5 (01:09:01):
He is going to be an absolute ballbuster, and I'm
here for it, all right. I promise him getting through
the rest of these. We got a break here, We're
gonna come back. I'm going to get through him in
the rest of the segment. But these are kind of interesting,
and the speed with which Trump is making decisions about who.

Speaker 6 (01:09:16):
To put in what position is really really refreshing.

Speaker 5 (01:09:20):
Mandy. Why is Matt Gates bad? I don't know anything
about him really Well, he's been creditably accused of bringing
young women to his home to apply them with drugs
and money to have sex parties, and occasionally one or
two of them was underage. So that's really where I
am right now.

Speaker 6 (01:09:40):
So I just I don't like him.

Speaker 5 (01:09:42):
I don't there's something about him that I don't like.
And this is one of those I'm going to tell
you guys right now in my lifetime up to this point,
and I could be wrong, so I want to put
that caveat up there. But up to this point, when
I have a gut reaction to someone, it is correct,
and I have a gut reaction to him, says he
is going to end up being a stain on the

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Republican Party.

Speaker 6 (01:10:04):
We will be back after this.

Speaker 8 (01:10:05):
Keep it on KOA.

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Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
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Speaker 8 (01:10:44):
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Speaker 5 (01:10:46):
And if you missed the interview with doctor Jeffrey Long
from the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, I just love
that stuff and I thought it was a really good interview,
so check it out.

Speaker 6 (01:10:55):
That would be fun. We're talking about Trump's cabinet picks,
right now. We've made it through.

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
Chief of Staff with Susie Wiles, Deputy chief of Staff
for Policy Stephen Miller. Borders are Tom Homan, national Security
Advisor Mike Waltz, and then we get to White House.

Speaker 6 (01:11:09):
I didn't do. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is an
Army veteran.

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
He was the first Green Beret ever elected to Congress,
and he is going to serve as Trump's top national
security official. He is very vocal about NATO needing to
do more and Europe needs to do more when it
comes to the war in Ukraine as they are in
greater risk, and I absolutely agree with him. He's been

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pretty relentless in criticizing Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Speaker 6 (01:11:38):
He does seem to me that he is going to
be a little.

Speaker 5 (01:11:41):
Tighter with the foreign policy support than your average national
security advisor. So that will not bode well for Ukraine
or Europe really when they're forced to do their own
part to defend their own borders, which is something they.

Speaker 6 (01:11:56):
Should have been doing this entire time.

Speaker 5 (01:11:58):
This from the win Yogi, also a retired Air Force
Love the second deaf pick.

Speaker 6 (01:12:03):
That's Pete Hegseth.

Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
She says, tired of the DoD politician's four stars sending
all of us to war and leading us out to
dry ri Afghanistan. If you want to know where Headsas stands,
read his book Battle for the American Mind. He wants
DoD to focus on being the lethal force we need,
not the woke social experiment it has become.

Speaker 6 (01:12:22):
I love the pick.

Speaker 8 (01:12:24):
So there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:12:26):
I said, jury's out for me on that one. Don't
know enough about him.

Speaker 5 (01:12:30):
White House counsel will be Bill McGinley. He was already
cabinet during Trump's first administration. He served as general counsel
with a National Republican senatorial campaign committee, and so that
is perfectly fine. Middle East Envoy. Don't know this guy,
Stephen Witkoff. He's a New York businessman. He'll serve as
Special Envoy to the Middle East. Trump says it will

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involve him being a voice for peace. He's a longtime
friend of the President elect, known as real estate tycoon
and chair and.

Speaker 8 (01:13:01):
CEO of Witcoff. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:13:04):
I mean he sent he sent what's the sun's name,
our son in law, Jared Kushner to the Middle East
and got the Abraham Accords, So maybe he's looking for,
you know, lightning to strike twice. We'll see, we shall see.
Department of Government Efficiency. Elon Musk and the bag Ramaswami.
I love this, but I don't want them to make

(01:13:27):
a new actual department. I find it hilarious that the
department's initial spell doge dge.

Speaker 6 (01:13:37):
Which is of course a form of cryptocurrency.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
And if you don't think Elon Musk flexting got that.

Speaker 6 (01:13:43):
Name, doge?

Speaker 5 (01:13:44):
Oh come on, come on, by the way, I love
this because they are expected to by July fourth of
twenty twenty six, just a few months before the midterm elections,
they are going to slash governments, spending and regulations.

Speaker 6 (01:14:01):
Oh get in my veins.

Speaker 8 (01:14:04):
I love this so much.

Speaker 5 (01:14:08):
Now, what I'm interested to see is what the initial
effects from this are going to be. And they could
they could cause a recession. I mean, whenever you take
a bunch of spending coming from the government and and
then throw that, you know, take that away, and when

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you shrink government, you can buy default shrink spending, right,
I mean, that's the whole point.

Speaker 6 (01:14:34):
So I am stoked about that. I mean, I am
so happy, so happy.

Speaker 5 (01:14:44):
I was fine with most of Trump's nominees, says this
texter until Gates look up a picture of butt head
from Beavis and butthead.

Speaker 6 (01:14:51):
That's Matt Gates.

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
I found an article that gave a little bit of
information about the latest thing. Now, Matt Gates was investigated
by the Department of Justice over allegations that he had
a sex party with underage girls. So he was never
charged by the Department of Justice. He's currently under ethics
review by the House Ethics Committee. But a new court

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case that involves a sordid set of details that I'll
share with you in a moment sort of outlines where
I think.

Speaker 6 (01:15:20):
He is the sacrificial pick.

Speaker 5 (01:15:22):
He's the sacrificial lamb of this group where everybody's going
to focus on him. It's all going to be about him,
and everybody else is just going to slide through. The
documents were filed in Friday, our last let's see September
of this year, September twentieth, that alleged that Matt Gates
did attend a twenty seventeen sex party where a nude

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seventeen year old girl was present, Drugs were supplied, sex
was had, and one affidavit attested to the fact that
the teenager was naked. Now, what's interesting about this is
Gates has denied being at the party. Apparently, these new
filing his cell phone was at the party, and he

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probably with his cell phone was probably there as well.
Let me just throw this out. Further details about the
twenty seventeen party are now coming to light due to
a series of lawsuits naming Gates's associates and him implicating.
A Florida representative whose last name is Dorworth. Joel Greenberg,
a Gates ally and former tax collector from Seminole County,

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pleaded guilty in twenty twenty one to several federal charges,
including sex trafficking a minor and stalking, and testified that
Gates was part of the scheme. Though his confession letter
was never made public, Gates himself was never charged as
a result of Greenberg's testimony. Last year, however, Doorworth filed
lawsuits against Greenberg and the seventeen year old girl, claiming

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that they falsely accused him of trafficking.

Speaker 6 (01:16:53):
He later dropped the civil case, but.

Speaker 5 (01:16:55):
His lawyers are now pursuing their own claims to recoup
attorney's fees. Despite Gates's frequent denials of all allegations against him,
court documents claim that cell phone data shows he attended
the party. A phone number identified as belonging to Gates
sent thirty text messages to Dowert's phone and called him
twice the day of the party, potentially corroborating Gates's ex

(01:17:18):
partner's affidavit.

Speaker 8 (01:17:20):
And that's why I.

Speaker 5 (01:17:20):
Don't like Matt Gates, because you know what, there's a
lot of there there for there not to be something
there there, if you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:17:28):
Let's take a quick time out. We'll come back.

Speaker 5 (01:17:30):
I got a bunch of other stories on the blog
for the rest of the hour, So hang in there.
We're doing them all next, every single one of it.
We're gonna have merch for a government department. You know
what'd be cool is if they sold merch for a
government department to cut government waste, and then all of
the proceeds went to cut government spending or you know,
cut the deficit.

Speaker 8 (01:17:46):
That would be.

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
Fantastic, so fantastic. Anyway, got a lot of stuff on
the blog that we're not going to talk about today.
Denver City Council approved the mayor's budget and in the
article that I have linked on the blog today, there
is a lot of conversation about the failure of the
tax increase so the city could build affordable housing. And

(01:18:10):
the more I think about this, the more irritable I
am about it, because the city should never be building
affordable housing. A friend of mine, a staunch liberty loving man,
said to me one time something that stuck with me,
and it was not original to him, but I can't
remember who he got it from, but he said, anything
that you can find in the white pages of the

(01:18:31):
phone book. Now, oh god, I just realized this is
no longer a good analogy, dang it, because people don't.

Speaker 6 (01:18:37):
Have phone books.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
Hey, Rod, you do know that in a phone book
the white pages were residential and the yellow pages were business.

Speaker 8 (01:18:43):
Right, No, oh my god.

Speaker 6 (01:18:46):
Google is such a good analogy, though. I love this analogy.

Speaker 5 (01:18:51):
Okay, So, back in olden times, people before we had
the internet, you used to get a phone book for
your town, and it had everybody in town's phone number
in it, every person who didn't have an unlisted number,
And if you had an unlisted number, we all thought
you were in some kind of witness protection program. But whatever,
I digress, but it had everybody's phone number. In the
white pages of the phone book were residential, so that

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was everybody's phone numbers, and when you got to the
yellow pages, that was business. And the analogy is anything
that you can find in the white pages should not
be being Excuse me, now I've confused myself because I
had explained phone books, anything that could be done in
the yellow pages should never be done by government, because

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if business can do it, then business should do it.
And the problem is is that And I've talked to
I've had conversations with home builders, not a ton but
a couple, and they say the same thing. They're like, look,
and this was during the height of the inflation on
building materials, so that was like the beginning of.

Speaker 6 (01:19:53):
COVID maybe when lumber went to like a billion dollars
a square foot or whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:19:57):
And so I was talking to these builders and they said, look,
the material costs are horrible, but you can't control that, right,
You cannot do anything about the cost of lumber.

Speaker 6 (01:20:07):
You just have to eat that.

Speaker 5 (01:20:08):
But when you are in a situation where you are
sinking hard money into building a property and then the
permitting department slows you down six to eight weeks. You
can't get the stuff done. You have permitting officers coming
in and they're they're finding things on the reinspection that
they didn't find on the first inspection, and now we
have to have another inspection. Government creates huge problems and

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raises expenses for these homebuilders. And what I'd like to
see Mayor Mike Johnson do, because I really believe he
wants to solve the problem, is say, Okay, get every
home builder that is building homes currently in the metro
area and let's have a meeting and you sit down
with these men and women and you say, tell me
what makes building a house more expensive that government is

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responsible for. You start there that you're starting proposition, and
then you take that list and you go, Okay, what
can we fix?

Speaker 6 (01:21:03):
What can we not fix?

Speaker 5 (01:21:05):
The permitting department in some areas is an absolute disaster.

Speaker 6 (01:21:09):
And it's not just Denver. I'm not just talking about Denver.
I'm talking about across.

Speaker 5 (01:21:14):
Smaller communities have disastrous permitting departments. But I've seen in
the few years that the Democrats have been in charge
of everything, they have changed building standards, They have made
it more expensive to build a home right out of
the chute. And so we've got to find out where
government has made these houses more expensive and take care
of as much of that as we can.

Speaker 6 (01:21:34):
And then you go to the same builders.

Speaker 5 (01:21:36):
And say, okay, what do you need for us to
incentivize you to build at least ten to fifteen percent
of the properties that you build in any neighborhood as
affordable housing with this price point. What do you need
to do because frankly, when you're talking about affordable housing,
the margins are so low, they're so low that it's

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really hard for builders to make money on affordable housing.

Speaker 6 (01:22:00):
So then at that point you say.

Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
Okay, what can we offer incentives in the form of
tax breaks, tax credits, some other form of incentive to
get these people onboard with a vision for x amount
of affordable homes for each individual homebuilder, bring in the
people that are building the houses and ask them how
to make it easier and cheaper.

Speaker 8 (01:22:21):
That's where you start.

Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
You don't start by asking voters for a ton of
money with a nebulus plan on how this is going
to work.

Speaker 6 (01:22:30):
That's the wrong way to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
So, I mean, I'm frustrated that the default position is
always government should do more instead of government should do less,
when a remarkable amount of the cost of this stuff
is because government has done way too much.

Speaker 8 (01:22:48):
We'll be back.

Speaker 5 (01:22:49):
Oh my gosh, you guys, I have so much stuff
on the blog. I'm really deciding what I'm going to
do next. There's so much, so much good stuff. Okay,
we're talking uranium. Nope, we're talking by.

Speaker 6 (01:23:00):
Trust me on this, y'all.

Speaker 5 (01:23:02):
This is a story you want to hear.

Speaker 6 (01:23:04):
We're gonna do it next. Keep it on Koa.

Speaker 5 (01:23:06):
There's really important stories about important things. But I'm going
with a story about butter because if you've ever wanted
proof that either our government is full of the dumbest
people alive or that we are the dumbest people alive,
I direct your attention to the recall of butter at

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at costco.

Speaker 6 (01:23:30):
Ay Rid, did you hear about this?

Speaker 8 (01:23:31):
I can't believe it's true.

Speaker 6 (01:23:33):
Listen to this.

Speaker 5 (01:23:34):
In early October, the FDA. Thankfully, the FDA is there
looking out for our best interest, just like those government
officials were looking out for the best interest of peanup
the squirrel and freed the raccoon right before they killed them.
The FDA sent out an initial recall on Kirkland signature butter.
Have you tried the Kirkland signature butter? By the way,
ay rid, have you tried it? Grassbed?

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:23:56):
Quite delicious, Cheaper than carry gold, cheaper than carry gold.

Speaker 11 (01:24:00):
Not.

Speaker 6 (01:24:00):
I don't think it's as good, but it's.

Speaker 5 (01:24:02):
Pretty dang close, close enough that if you're on a
little bit of a budget, the Kirkland butter is very
very good. The recall is for seventy nine thousand, two
hundred pounds of butter.

Speaker 8 (01:24:15):
You know why they have to recall it?

Speaker 10 (01:24:16):
A rod?

Speaker 11 (01:24:18):
Why?

Speaker 5 (01:24:18):
Because of an undeclared allergen? An allergen a rod. Somebody
could eat this and they could die if they're allergic
to the allergen that they did not list on the costco.
Kirkland Signature butter produced by Continental Dairy Facilities.

Speaker 6 (01:24:33):
Do you know what that allergen is?

Speaker 8 (01:24:36):
Please?

Speaker 5 (01:24:38):
They forgot to put contains milk on the butter, ay Rod.
Do you know what butter is made out of? Do
you have you ever made butter?

Speaker 8 (01:24:51):
But I'm an venture to guess that's a crucial part
of it.

Speaker 6 (01:24:55):
Yeah, Well a cream.

Speaker 5 (01:24:56):
You take heavy cream and you could put it in
a mason jar. And this is truely how you can
make butter. I'm not making this up. You put it
in the mason jar, the heavy cream, and you.

Speaker 6 (01:25:03):
Just start shaking.

Speaker 5 (01:25:04):
You shake, shake, shake, shake, shake until this the water
separates out from the actual butter. And then you strain
it off and you put it in some cheese cloth
and you squeeze as much water at as you gain,
and then you put some salt on it and then
you kind of mix it together and then you put
it in a you know, a ball, and you put
it in your fridge. That's how you make butter. But
it's cream, which is milk. Now here's my question. Who

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among us knows that they are allergic to milk but
doesn't know that butter is a dairy product. And if
you are this person, then how have you stayed alive
for this long? This is insane. Eighty thousand pounds of

(01:25:51):
butter eighty thousand and y'all, I don't know about you.
In art now, I am not cooking Thanksgiving dinner this
year at my house. I'm cooking a side dish. Don't
know what I'm cooking yet, but I'm cooking something. But
we're not doing the whole thing I go through at
Thanksgiving alone, like three pounds of butter just in preparing
Thanksgiving dinner. So put a wooden clothes plin in there

(01:26:13):
with that to make butter. You can, but you don't
have to if you just shake.

Speaker 6 (01:26:17):
The Mason jar. You guys are learned this in Girl
Scouts and I've done it many times.

Speaker 5 (01:26:20):
Or you can just put it in your kitchen aid
mixer with the paddle attachment and let it go, not
the whisk attachment.

Speaker 6 (01:26:27):
They don't make, you know, whipped cream.

Speaker 8 (01:26:30):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
People are asking a lot of you on the text line.
This one just says Matt Gates Attorney General thoughts. We
talked about this in the last segment. I do not
like this pick, but I believe that Matt Gates is
going to play the role of the sacrificial lamb in
this confirmation process. He will suck up all of the

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negative media because there's a lot, and everybody else will
slide through. There's one in every appointment, there's every set.

Speaker 9 (01:26:58):
Of a point you're saying, is is Matt Gates in
more ways than one is Donald Trump's tool to get
things done?

Speaker 6 (01:27:06):
Correct?

Speaker 8 (01:27:07):
Correct? All right? Noted?

Speaker 5 (01:27:10):
Yeah, Yeah, this person points out on the blog the
butter situation, the same idiots who ate tidepods.

Speaker 9 (01:27:18):
I just, I just I don't know if those people
are in the same room, but they are rooms adjacent.

Speaker 5 (01:27:24):
This person said the Costco recall is stupid, stupid or
still is leaving milk off the label Haha, They did
not on the label of ingredients.

Speaker 8 (01:27:34):
It does say heavy cream.

Speaker 5 (01:27:36):
But what they didn't put on there was a contains
milk allergy statement.

Speaker 6 (01:27:43):
On the packaging, so it is in the ingredients. You
just flip it over, just flip it. But you guys,
I mean, who are the people?

Speaker 8 (01:27:52):
Who are they? Who are they?

Speaker 5 (01:27:55):
Sounds like a plot chickens would hatch y s and ded.

Speaker 8 (01:27:57):
You are right, Texter. They want to add them cages.
This is their evil plan. I don't know, I really don't.

Speaker 5 (01:28:07):
But I saw this and was like this, this proves
we are We're truly the dumbest people on the history
of the world.

Speaker 6 (01:28:15):
Now, the CDC says.

Speaker 5 (01:28:16):
Milk is one of the main foods that account for
most serious allergic reactions in the United States.

Speaker 6 (01:28:22):
The symptoms and severity of allergic reactions.

Speaker 5 (01:28:24):
To food can be different between individuals and can be
different for one person over time. So here's the thing.
I my daughter has friends with allergies. A oh, I
can make butter with the whipped whisk attachment. It becomes
whipped butter. Thank you, wy yogi. Looking into Matt Gates,

(01:28:44):
he's a badass. He's a badass who may have been
at a sex party with a seventeen year old girl
running around naked, high on cocaine, ecstasy and alcohol that
he may have provided.

Speaker 6 (01:28:54):
So he's got some baggage that is gonna.

Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
Be significant going forward, really significant.

Speaker 6 (01:29:02):
Anyway. Uh so we've covered the butter story.

Speaker 8 (01:29:05):
That was a big Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:29:06):
I've got the latest Social Smarts with Agnes video on
the blog today.

Speaker 6 (01:29:11):
Anyone are you watching these things? I've been putting them
on the blog. Think so now you're like super tech savvy.

Speaker 5 (01:29:17):
But she gives out so much good information and as
a you know, as a gen X person where this is,
I'm not a digital native.

Speaker 6 (01:29:24):
All this stuff is super interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:29:25):
And this week's video was on how apps and websites
watch you and I knew it, like I understood it
at a sort of macro level. But I am learning
stuff from her every single week. And if you want
to just have a fantastic day. You can go and
watch the the big giant video of nothing but Scott

(01:29:50):
Jennings dropping sense bombs on CNN. It is magical, absolutely magical.
Someone put a bunch of them together.

Speaker 8 (01:29:59):
It's just so good.

Speaker 5 (01:30:00):
Oh, I want to get this story in before we leave, too,
So Nate Silver is the the Oh, that's very funny.
Text are utterly ridiculous, utter not ut.

Speaker 8 (01:30:12):
Udder, get it right to give it?

Speaker 6 (01:30:15):
Yeah, anyway, thank you, thank you anyway, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:30:20):
I guess we're the stupid ones. I once got a
curling iron that said do not use while sleeping. Well,
thank goodness for that.

Speaker 8 (01:30:26):
Did you see the sign next to the Grand Canyon
says don't jump? Wow?

Speaker 6 (01:30:30):
No, I'm just kidding, okay, I mean to see how
believable that was. I'm saying, yep, kind of scary.

Speaker 5 (01:30:36):
Nate Silver, the polling guru for many years, had a
post wartem about the election and polling and everything else.

Speaker 6 (01:30:44):
It's actually very good.

Speaker 5 (01:30:44):
I mean, if you want to do like a nerdy
deep dive, it's a very interesting column. But I want
to share one part of it that jumped out of me.
And it's at the near the bottom and he said,
even though our forecast was near fifty to fifty for
almost the whole race, there were certainly periods that were
relatively or worse for Harris and Trump. Our narrative content
followed accordingly, with about an even mix of newsletters. And

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they send out a newsletter. That's how I got this one.
They send out a newsletter that presented optimistic cases for
Harris and Trump. That was not true when Joe Biden
was running. But that's because Biden was way behind in
the polls. So Nate Silver says, I essentially got to
perform a randomized controlled trial on how partisans in both
camps reacted to good and bad news, and there was

(01:31:30):
an asymmetry. Republicans are generally happy when you agree with
them part way or half the time. Admittedly, the sorts
of Republicans who encounter our work are not a representative sample,
probably being on the moderate side, though you can find
plenty of Trump supporters in the Silver Bulletin comments section. Democrats, however,

(01:31:50):
and here I'm not referring so much to Silver Bulletin subscribers,
but in the broader universe online often get angry with
you when you only halfway agree with them, and I
really think this difference in personality profiles tells you a
little something about Trump won. Trump was happy to take
on all comers, whereas with Democrats, disagreements on any hot

(01:32:14):
button topic, say COVID school closures or Biden's age.

Speaker 6 (01:32:17):
Will have you cast out as a heretic.

Speaker 5 (01:32:20):
That's not a good way to build a majority, and
now Democrats no longer have one, So that I thought
was an interesting little tidbit, But it kind of goes
with what we've seen about the overall mood of people
on the right versus people on the left. People on
the right are far less likely to cut off family

(01:32:42):
members or friends because of politics.

Speaker 6 (01:32:44):
People on the left are far more likely to say they.

Speaker 5 (01:32:46):
Would never date someone who was a Republican, whereas Republicans say,
I don't care if they're nice. And now we know
in the comments section at least that Democrats, unless you
were fully on board with everything they believed, we're angry,
whereas Republicans are like, hey, let's find common ground. The

(01:33:06):
only reason I'm bringing this up, and I'm not trying
to bludgeon anybody, but the Democrats keep believing that they're
the party of tolerance and kindness and love and dare
I say joy?

Speaker 8 (01:33:21):
But they're not.

Speaker 5 (01:33:23):
And I'm guessing they're not going to stop being that
way until we start telling them as much and as
awesome that they're just the people that they accuse us
of being. They're doing the exact same things that they
accuse Republicans and Conservatives of doing. So I've decided I'm
going to very gently point that out. And if I
lose a friend or someone disowns me, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:33:47):
I guess I'm cool with it. I will say this.

Speaker 5 (01:33:51):
I have been unfriended, defriended, whatever you want to call it,
by a small handful of people on the left, and
I don't miss a single one of them in my life.

Speaker 6 (01:34:03):
I never pine away for their friendship. I never wonder
how they're doing.

Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
I never think to myself, gosh, I wish that friendship
hadn't ended. If anything, if I think about it at all,
I simply say, you know what, God, I appreciate you
taking them out of my life for me. I also
have a video on the blog today about this. I
follow a guy named King Randall. He's an African American guy.

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He has the King Randall Academy for Young Men where
he teaches these young black men, many of them don't
have a father figure.

Speaker 6 (01:34:35):
He teaches them how to speak, how.

Speaker 5 (01:34:37):
To carry themselves with confidence, how to behave in a
polite and well mannered fashion, how they can get the
soft skills to get ahead in life.

Speaker 6 (01:34:46):
He's doing all this. He's a young guy and I
follow him.

Speaker 5 (01:34:49):
Online and he posted a video of him talking about
the fact that he posted two videos on his social
media one where he said he was going to support
com Mala Harris and one where he said he was
going to support Donald Trump.

Speaker 6 (01:35:05):
And the message under the Kamala.

Speaker 5 (01:35:07):
Harris post, there was a lot of people who posted
things like, well, you know what, we agree to disagree,
but I still support what you're doing and I'm still
going to donate to your cause. On the left, it
was much different. It was we're never going to support
you again. We can't believe you're a trader to your race.
I mean really really nasty stuff. And he said on

(01:35:27):
the Twitter post, and I have this on the blog today,
he said, why are you so angry over my pick
for president?

Speaker 6 (01:35:32):
Don't become what you accuse others of being.

Speaker 5 (01:35:35):
This goes to show how much people truly worship politicians.
Do we even trust God anymore? So I'm just I'm
not going to sit back and allow people on the
left to continue telling the lie, the demonstrable lie, that

(01:35:56):
they are the party of tolerance and love, because right
now they're not.

Speaker 6 (01:35:59):
Maybe they used to.

Speaker 5 (01:36:01):
I mean maybe sometime in olden times, maybe they can
be again, but they're certainly not that now. And what's
funny is the leadership of the Colorado Republican Party is
doing everything in its power to emulate those people and
whittle down as many people out of the party here
as they can, just like the Democrats have whittled down
how many party want to how many people want to

(01:36:23):
vote for their candidates. Yep, yep, yep. I also just
retweeted something on my Twitter page. If you don't follow
me at Mandy Connell, you will miss the video of
President Joe Biden showing President Squared President Alex squared Donald

(01:36:44):
Trump back around the White House. They had their meeting
today and I don't know what they talked about, but
I am going to say this. There's a photograph of
Donald Trump with Joe and Joe Biden, and they look
so freak happy. I mean so freaking happy. And you

(01:37:06):
have to wonder who those two voted for. Who did
they who did they pull the lever for when when
they went into the voting booth. I mean, Joe Biden
looks happier than he has in a year, more vibrant
than he has in a year, standing next to Donald.

Speaker 6 (01:37:23):
It's crazy. You've got to go look at these pictures.

Speaker 5 (01:37:25):
I'll put it on the blog tomorrow. I'll try to remember. Hey, Rod,
tomorrow morning, remind.

Speaker 6 (01:37:29):
Me to put this on the blog tomorrow morning.

Speaker 5 (01:37:33):
Tomorrow, No, tomorrow morning. I want you tomorrow morning, Comma.
I want you to remind me to put those photos
on the blog. Got it tomorrow morning, Comma, tomorrow morning? Yep,
I won't actually do it tomorrow morning.

Speaker 8 (01:37:49):
Tomorrow morning. You should put that thing on the blog
that you were talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:37:53):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (01:37:55):
Yeah, who's playing today? What have we got?

Speaker 10 (01:37:59):
Ran?

Speaker 8 (01:37:59):
But before I comes on, I want you to make
sure you don't forget to put that on the blog tomorrow.
I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:38:04):
I don't even know why I try. I mean, all
I ask for is.

Speaker 8 (01:38:06):
A little help, is my Can you just not forget
to put that on the blog? Tomorrow. There we go, Ryan,
can you let her know and put on the blog?

Speaker 6 (01:38:12):
Ryan, don't you do it?

Speaker 8 (01:38:13):
Don't do it.

Speaker 5 (01:38:14):
I just needed some help Ryan, And now he's made
and now he's turned it into this forget thing. And
now it's a lot of other good stuff on the
blog today, including the UK realizing green energy is a fantasy.

Speaker 6 (01:38:27):
Uh comfort food from around the state.

Speaker 5 (01:38:30):
I'm just saying, if you're not seeing the blog right now,
you are missing out on incredibly good content, incredibly good
good if I do say so myself.

Speaker 8 (01:38:38):
Is it time yet?

Speaker 6 (01:38:38):
Should we go?

Speaker 13 (01:38:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:38:40):
All right, now it's time for the most exacting segment
on the radio of its guy the.

Speaker 9 (01:38:46):
World of the day before we get going to make
sure you don't forget to cut you.

Speaker 6 (01:38:54):
I'm gonna all right, what is I don't even know
why I even do that. I don't even know why
I do that. Yeah, we'll see, okay. Anyway, what is
our dad joke.

Speaker 5 (01:39:07):
Of the day?

Speaker 8 (01:39:08):
Please? What do you call a happy cowboy? A happy cowboy?
I don't know, A jolly rancher? Wo wow?

Speaker 5 (01:39:23):
Both Hey, I give you credit when they're good, but
I'm not going to give you credit when they're not.

Speaker 8 (01:39:29):
I'm just saying, jolly, I like it. Okay, all right, okay,
go ahead.

Speaker 9 (01:39:33):
Word of the day is a noun noun hypenym h
y p o n y m hypen hYP.

Speaker 8 (01:39:44):
Hypen.

Speaker 5 (01:39:45):
I feel like I should be able to figure this
out using my s A t root word I I
hypenym is uh. Then even better version of a word,
an even better version.

Speaker 2 (01:39:56):
Of a word.

Speaker 9 (01:39:57):
No, a term that denotes a subcategory of a more
general class.

Speaker 5 (01:40:04):
Yeah, I know some today, learned today and that I
didn't know before, and nor did I want to know before.

Speaker 6 (01:40:10):
But now it's the thing I know.

Speaker 5 (01:40:12):
Since nineteen fifty six, the third Friday in May each
year is an unofficial holiday called Bike to Work Day?

Speaker 6 (01:40:20):
Who created this holiday?

Speaker 8 (01:40:22):
Governor Jared of just going on, I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:40:24):
Gonna say Shwin. Yeah, that guy Swin's a bike company.

Speaker 8 (01:40:28):
Oh, I mean, I'm sure it's a person. Now, No,
it's not.

Speaker 5 (01:40:32):
It's the League of American Bicyclist to celebrate properly.

Speaker 6 (01:40:35):
You should have guessed it. Bike to work.

Speaker 5 (01:40:37):
There you go, Except I'm not doing that anyway. There's
a lot of hills between me and the office.

Speaker 8 (01:40:41):
I'm not doing that. I'd be all sweaty gross.

Speaker 6 (01:40:44):
Nobody wants that in the office. Trust me, all right, Ryan,
you ready, I will, I'll do a best.

Speaker 8 (01:40:49):
You're born and he was born ready.

Speaker 9 (01:40:52):
Every word in a category, race or ace is a
cod or part of the word okay.

Speaker 8 (01:40:58):
It can mean both to and.

Speaker 6 (01:41:02):
What is embrace?

Speaker 9 (01:41:04):
Alliterative term for the rigorous and mono monotonous hello routine of.

Speaker 8 (01:41:11):
Daily working life? Just getting a second? Late? This two
word term.

Speaker 9 (01:41:17):
Regarding rival nations trying to develop superior weapons? What is
an arms rect religious sounding two word term for a
redeeming feature that makes up for all kinds of bad stuff?
Read that one more time, religious sounding two word term
for a redeeming feature that makes up for all kinds

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of bad stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:41:42):
I feel like I know one of the words, but
I don't know what the other word is.

Speaker 2 (01:41:45):
I don't know that one.

Speaker 9 (01:41:46):
What would be someone's saving grace? Finally, this ancient region
of the Balkan Peninsula thank you. Peninsula was later a
Roman province.

Speaker 8 (01:42:02):
I think I know how to pronounce it.

Speaker 5 (01:42:04):
That's a hint, Mandy, What is the tigris and euphrates?

Speaker 8 (01:42:13):
What is thrace? Or ever heard of that?

Speaker 10 (01:42:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:42:19):
Second late dollars short all that. Yeah, good job.

Speaker 6 (01:42:21):
Yeah, it's fine, it's not.

Speaker 8 (01:42:22):
It's all good.

Speaker 5 (01:42:23):
So obviously, what happens Ryan now that our assistant head
coach is retiring to take care of his health. I mean,
what's the what's the secession plan there?

Speaker 8 (01:42:36):
It's not it's not that.

Speaker 13 (01:42:38):
I mean again, he was he was a big factor
in special teams. Uh you know, I mean that's that's
one of his his calling cards. But they are it's
not a special teams coordinator, right, that's been Kika. So
you know, they They've brought in a bunch of guys, right,
I mean they Pete Carmichael is a guy that's also
kind of an assistant coach. He's a guy that is
sort of helping out behind the scenes. So, I mean,

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it just was good to have Mike fust Off here
in the experience. But I don't think it changes too
much of what they're doing.

Speaker 8 (01:43:04):
Okay, that's what I wanted to hear.

Speaker 5 (01:43:05):
I mean, obviously we wish him the best, absolutely absolutely.
What else is coming up on KA Sports today?

Speaker 8 (01:43:10):
Oh, we're getting into all sorts of great stuff.

Speaker 13 (01:43:12):
The Broncos back in action, getting ready to play the
Atlanta Falcons.

Speaker 4 (01:43:15):
Big game.

Speaker 8 (01:43:15):
There we've been sort of detailing some of the things
with the Falcons.

Speaker 13 (01:43:19):
The Colts are going back to Anthony Richardson after saying
they were not going to do that, so we'll obviously
get into that a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
And uh yeah, I know, I know it is a mass.

Speaker 13 (01:43:29):
That's good for news to the Broncos because they play
them here in a few weeks, so exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:43:34):
KA Sports coming up next. We'll be back tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:43:36):
Keep it right here on KOA